What your BEST LINE EVER from a U2 song?

[Swan269]

It can be tough but I love right now......

And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

or

you put your lipps to her lipps to stop the lie

 

[tatechesley]

"Desperation is a tender trap, it gets you everytime" So Cruel

 

[Jenn121]

Love this one:

I was so messed up, I had opera in my head

 

[discothequeLP]

Boomcha! Boomcha!


LoL ok lets get serious...

"I Love the Crowd..." i've always loved U2 live



"But you take what you can't get
'Cause it's all that you can find
And you know there's somehting more..."


How many times has that happened to you? Happens to me almost every day

 

[Northeast]

my personal favorite:

Dressing like your sister
Living like a tart
They don't know what you're doing
Babe, it must be art
You're a headache
In a suitcase
You're a star

from Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me

 

[vivaSA]

"the way you left my heart empty as a vacant lot, for any spirit to haunt" - who's gonna ride your wild horses

 

[U2girl]

"I am not afraid of anything in this world
there's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard"

Very powerful opening lines IMO

Also "desperation is a tender trap it gets you every time" from So cruel or "be uncool, yes be awkward" from Always

 

[adamswildhoney]

"the way you left my heart empty as a vacant lot, for any spirit to haunt" - who's gonna ride your wild horses

also:

I want to see, and I want to hear
To understand your fears
But we're north and south of the river

OR

If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go...


This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go

OR

Sleep
Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized
If the thunder cloud
Passes rain
So let it rain
Rain down on him
So let it be
So let it be


Sleep
Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized
If the thundercloud
Passes rain
So let it rain
Let it rain
Rain on him

OR

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

 

[Acrobat_Al]

Re: Re: Re: What your BEST LINE EVER from a U2 song?

God I love that line. Always makes me think about my dad, who died 5 years ago.

Last summer I went travelling and spent a couple of weeks in Auckland. I made the trip up One Tree Hill on my last day there. It was a really special day - not too hot, beautiful light with lots of long shadows. There's lots of winding paths that take you around the hill. I just wandered around, lost in my own thoughts. I had that song on repeat, and even though I'd heard that song so many times before, I swear I didn't truly get it until listening to it sitting on top of One Tree Hill, thinking about my dad, and thinking about the journey I was taking - the places I had been, the places I was going to, and the 'spiritual journey' that I was taking.

Sorry to be so naff. But that's what it was like for me. It really gives me a tingle to think back to it. And it's great, because every time I listen to that song now, that feeling comes back. Ah, memories.

I almost cry after reading your post...

 

[gareth brown]

Too many candidates present in the songs of Achtung Baby.

• The Fly
• So Cruel
• Wild Horses
• One

To name a few...

But my favourite would also have to be

I am yourself in someone else, go find yourself in me

 

[vlasak]

Who's to say where the wind will take you......

 

[dreamingoutloud1]

come down off your holy cloud, God won't deal with the proud
if you dream, dream out loud.....always

head of heaven, fingers in the mire.....so cruel

it's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else.....the fly

what you got they can't steal it, no they can't even feel it.... walk on

what you don't have you don't need it now.....beautiful day

and many, many more!

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

I just can't choose one! Here's some...

The day I die, the choice will not be mine~Out Of Control

Turning each song into a prayer...always~Always

Into the heart of child I can stay a while I can go there~Into The Heart

Jesus help me I'm in this world a ****ed up world it is too~ Wake Up Dead Man

And somedays have bouncers and won't let you in~Some Days Are Better Than Others

I look to outside from the world I've left behind should a tear fall from my eye~A Day Without Me

 

[bedouin fire]

the following amongst so many

1.
Angry words won't stop the fight
Two wrongs won't make it right
A new heart is what I need
Oh God, make it bleed
Is there nothing left...

2.
What are we going to do now it's all been said
No new ideas in the house and every book has been read

3.
Jesus, were you just around the corner
Did You think to try and warn her
Or are you working on something new
If there's an order in all of this disorder
Is it like a tape recorder
Can we rewind it just once more

4. (... and the classic)
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

 

[babyman]

"Don't piss in the drain, don't make a will."

yesssssss. mr.edge rules!!

 

[babyman]

but please and sunday bloody sunday... these are prayers

 

[ginger edge]

I like the darker lines - a few cleverly written nasty thoughts for those who deserve it!

"You can swallow and you can spit,
You can throw it up - or choke on it"

(Acrobat - The reference to receiving communion beforehand is also very effective - aimed at the hypocrites who receive the body/blood of Christ and continue commiting evil and injustices against fellow humans!! - It also has other not-so-religious connotations!)

I also love the lyrics in songs like Kite where Bono seems to empathise with his father/children - but those have already been mentioned

- As have Edge's lyrics in Van Diemens Land where he empathises with the poor deportees - excellent writing - .

 

[Astereli]

'Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief, all kill their inspiration and sing about the grief' (the Fly) is really deep.

 

[Halle Halle]

From Acrobat,
"I'd join the movement
If there was one I could believe in.
Yeah, I'd break bread and wine,
If there was a church I could receive in"

From Promenade,
"Charity dance with me.
Turn me around tonight.
Up through the spiral staircase
to the higher ground."

Many, many others...

 

[jendzi]

Lyrics...

I can't choose just one line, because almost everything in U2 songs reminds me of some situations in my life.
But I can think of Luminous Times verses:

I love you cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you cause I understand
That God has given me you hand
Holds me in a tiny fist
And still I need your kiss...
Hold on to love.

And many many others .

 

[jendzi]

I almost forgot...
Thing I heard on U2 Go Home... in SBS.

Put your hands in the sky,
Put your hands in the air!
If you're the praying kind
Turn this song into a prayer!

 

[Numb1075]

Along the same lines of Live Concert footage, U2 in Boston, I really enjoyed the Bullet the Blue Sky rant. Bono goes on and on about John Lennon and Mark Chapman in his anti gun and pro peace speil.

 

[liamcool]

"For a generation without name,ripped and torn."
Thats significant to me.For no reason.

 

[madonna's child]

There are certainly more that I'm not thinking of!

Beautiful Day
What you don't know, you can feel it somehow

New Year's Day
I will begin again

A Sort of Homecoming
And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Light in the distance
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape

Dirty Day
I don't know you
And you don't know the half of it

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well yes I'm still running
You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
You know I believed it

If God Will Send His Angels
Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it's hard to get in the door

Kite
I'm a man
I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes
Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you

Lemon
She is the dreamer
She's imagination

One
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters, brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other

Walk On
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

Please
So love is big
Is bigger than us
But love is not
What you're thinking of
It's what lovers deal
It's what lovers steal
***You know I've found it hard to receive***

Stuck in a Moment...
I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

The Fly
THE ENTIRE SONG.

Summer Rain
It's not why you're running
It's where you're going
It's not what you're dreaming
But what you're gonna do
It's not where you're born
It's where you belong
It's not how weak
But what will make you strong

 

[madonna's child]

I almost forgot...
Thing I heard on U2 Go Home... in SBS.

Put your hands in the sky,
Put your hands in the air!
If you're the praying kind
Turn this song into a prayer!

I love that rant in Sunday Bloody Sunday when he screams "we're not going back there!" and gestures backwards (and because it's Bono I really feel like Northern Ireland's past is right behind him and he's pointing to it! lol.) and of course when he goes on to do the whole "no UDA! no IRA!" thing, very cool.

Even better on the Slane dvd is the thing he pulls during Out of Control, the "flashback" speeches.

 

[2861U2]

Here's my favorites:

DIRTY DAY
The days, days, days, run away like horses over the hills

Also, all the lyrics to ALWAYS, THE WANDERER, SURRENDER, THE REFUGEE, and UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD.

 

[2861U2]

Oh, I forget the "Halelujahs" at the end of Walk On.

 

[TheWho4Life]

The only baggage you can bring is all taht you can't leave behind\

I know it says different on my profile bu tI cant remember it right now becuase im listening to the sont I put down lol.

 

[mofo82]

Astereli (posted above) hit it on the head

as an artist and student, i connect to the fly's lyrics...'every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief, all kill their inspiration and sing about the grief'

and

'midnight is when the day begins'- lemon

just check out what time i posted this...nuff said

 

[vivaSA]

It's summer, I can taste the salty sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on the breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me