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Walk On - We're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been, a place that has to be believed to be seen...
 
I like "Love is not an easy thing, the only baggage that you can bring, is all that you can't leave behind."

walk on has some great ones
 
onebloodonelife said:
I like all of Peace on Earth, I think that the emotion put into each and every word of the song is heartbreaking and touching. Towards the end of the song when Bono says "Peace on Earth" right after he says "Whose sons are living in the ground" is amazing, just the pure, almost contempt for those words, like he hates them, but loves them at the same time...anyway, I think that the entire song is great storytelling, vivid, and touching.
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Wow, somebody else here likes Peace On Earth as much as I do! :love:

:up:
 
ATYCLB

You've been all over... and it's been all over you!

Man dreams one day to fly
A man takes a rocketship into the skies
He lives on a star that's dying in the night
And follows in the trail
The scatter of light
Turn it on

Jesus can you take the time to throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth

Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew,
Living happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you... New York
 
HTDAAB

Love makes nonsense of space
And time... will disappear
Love and logic keep us clear
Reason is on our side, love...

Beneath the noise
Below the din
I hear a voice
It's whispering
In science and in medicine
"I was a stranger
You took me in"

Time won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man

I'm alive, I'm being born
I just arrived, I'm at the door
Of the place I started out from
And I want back inside

Brown eyed girl across the street
On Rue Saint Divine
I thought this is the one for me
But she was already mine
You were already mine

Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die
Three to a bed
Sister Ann, she said
Dignity passes by

Still waiting for the dawn... sun is coming up
Sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
 
Anyway, all kidding aside, Kite is the most honest, beautifully innocent song since If God Will Send His Angels, which in turn was the most beautiful, innocent song since One.
 
When there’s all kinds of chaos
And everyone is walking lame
You don’t even blink now do you
Or even look away..

....Tell me, tell me, what do you see?
Tell me, tell me, what's wrong with me?
 
Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye


I've always liked "Kite", but that whole stanza took on a completely different meaning for me recently, especially the last part. My dad died in August (suicide) and all of a sudden about 2 months ago, the song's playing on my car CD, when for some reason, it just hit me like a brick that Daddy was speaking directly to me through that section of the song... He was telling me not to be so upset, that even though he wasn't here physically, his spirit & love still surround me 24-7 ('I know that this [his death] is not goodbye [physical presence versus spiritual presence] ) It was very intense, to say the least and only strengthened my love for the song.

:heart: Kite :heart:
 
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BluRmGrl said:
Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye


I've always liked "Kite", but that whole stanza took on a completely different meaning for me recently, especially the last part. My dad died in August (suicide) and all of a sudden about 2 months ago, the song's playing on my car CD, when for some reason, it just hit me like a brick that Daddy was speaking directly to me through that section of the song... He was telling me not to be so upset, that even though he wasn't here physically, his spirit & love still surround me 24-7 ('I know that this [his death] is not goodbye [physical presence versus spiritual presence] ) It was very intense, to say the least and only strengthened my love for the song.

:heart: Kite :heart:
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:hug: I'm so sorry about your dad. It's really cool that you found this line in the song to be so strong in it's message and that it helped you out. :hug: :hug:
 
Kite- :drool: I love when Bono says "life should be fragrant roof top to the basement. I agree with that. Also when he belts out" I'm a maaaaaaaannnn, I'm not a child"...WOW!! It gives me chills.
 
BluRmGrl said:
Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye


I've always liked "Kite", but that whole stanza took on a completely different meaning for me recently, especially the last part. My dad died in August (suicide) and all of a sudden about 2 months ago, the song's playing on my car CD, when for some reason, it just hit me like a brick that Daddy was speaking directly to me through that section of the song... He was telling me not to be so upset, that even though he wasn't here physically, his spirit & love still surround me 24-7 ('I know that this [his death] is not goodbye [physical presence versus spiritual presence] ) It was very intense, to say the least and only strengthened my love for the song.

:heart: Kite :heart:
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:hug: onebloodonelife said what I was going to say, basically. I'm glad U2 can help you through a tough time. I know the feeling of listening to a U2 song and suddenly the lyrics hit you, like, oh, now it all makes sense. I had that happen with Stuck in a Moment. Beautiful song. When I Look at the World and Kite are also very good consistantly lyric-wise (and musically as far as I'm concerned). some other lines I really love are

"Some things you shouldn't get too good at, like smiling, crying, and celebrity"

"Time won't leave me as I am/but time won't take the boy out of this man"

"The only pain is to feel nothing at all"

"A house doesn't make a home/Don't leave me here alone" - this is one of the most heart wrenching lyrics I've ever heard. and the way Bono sings it is as if he's on the verge of tears.

"Home, but to know what it is when you've never had one/Home, I can't say where it is but I know I'm going/Home, that's where the hurt is"

"You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us have been/A place that has to be believed to be seen"

The more I think about it the more I realize how many great lyrics the last two albums have, but especially All That You Can't Leave Behind. Man, what a brilliant album. Totally underrated here. and Zoot, now that I think of it I love Peace on Earth, too. The lyrics are so bitter. Love and Peace or Else is badass and has some cool lines, but Peace on Earth is much better lyrically, much more precise, and far more angry.
 
Here are some of mine:

New Years Day:
Under a blood-red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few,
The newspapers say, say, say it's true
And we can break through,
Though torn in two, we can be one

Bad:
If they should ask then maybe
They'd tell you what I would say
True colours fly in blue and black
Bruised silken skies and burning flack
Colours crash, collide in blood shot eyes

Night and Day:
The tom-tom when the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the eye of the clock
You're standing up against the wall
Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower's through
So a voice within me keeps repeating you you
 
When the night takes a deep (sometimes steep :wink: ) breath
And the daylight has no air
If I crawl, if I come crawling home
Will you be there?

:drool:

Also, Edge's lines in MD (they aren't especially deep but they're lovely).

I'm around the corner from anything that's real
I'm across the road from hope
I'm under the bridge in a riptide that's taken everything I call my own

OSC :heart:

I'm not much of a fan of ABOY, but I love these:

I'm alive, I'm being born again
I've just arrived
I'm at the door of the place I started out from
And I want back inside

Such foreshadowing of what was to come! Electric Co., An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart, The Ocean, Gloria... oh man.
 
You would think I'd read the title of the thread correctly! :happy:

:tsk:

Fast Cars:
All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to get right next to you
All I want is your face in the locket
Picture in my pocket
Take a pill to stop it
I know these fast cars will do me no good

New York:
The Irish have been coming here for years
Feel like they own the place
They got the airport, city hall, concrete, asphalt
They even got the police
Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew
Living happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you
New York
 
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