Favorite U2 Lyrics

[Ace Rimmer]

What are your favorite U2 lyrics, At the moment mine are:


They want you to be Jesus
To go down on one knee
But they want their money back
If you're alive at 33

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

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I'm in the waiting room
Can't see for the smoke
I think of you and your holy book
While the rest of us choke

When I Look At the World

 

[Peter]

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


your catholic blues
your convent shoes
your stick on tattoos
how they're making the news
your holy war
your northern star

september... streets capsizing... spilling over, down the drain... shards of glass splinters like rain but you could only feel your own pain
october talking getting nowhere november december remember
are we just starting again
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get up off your knees


It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest
It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief


In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
see it driving nails into the souls of the tree of pain


In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
Waves of regret and waves of joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You...you said you'd wait
'til the end of the world


We're free to fly the crimson sky
The sun won't melt our wings tonight
Oh now...here she comes


Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head


I'm ready
I'm ready for the laughing gas
I'm ready
I'm ready for what's next


A star
Lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you can educate my mind
Explain all these controls
Can't sing but I've got soul
The goal is elevation
A mole
Digging in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high
Elevation


You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
You just can't get enough
Of that lovie dovie stuff


I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name


Mother...mother sucking rock and roll (Mother...)
Bubble popping sugar dropping rock and roll (Mother...)
Mother...mother suck, yeah, fuck yeah (Mother...)


Over me and over you
Stuck together with God's glue
It's going to get stickier too
It's been a long hot summer
Let's get under cover
Don't try too hard to think
Don't think at all


I'll be up with the sun
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down


Whatever the deal
She won't let me down
Wherever I go
She's always hanging 'round
I...I...Got my lady with the spinning head


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


The air is clean
Your skin is clear
I've had enough fun hanging 'round here
It's a different kind of conversation
Your blue room

 

[senrab]

All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel
All this you can leave behind
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If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
I I could, I would let it go
Surrender, dislocate.
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One life, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other.
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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
I don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not good-bye
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She is the avalanche
She is the thunder
She is the waves and she pulls me under
I love you 'cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love 'cause I understand
That God has given me your hand.
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I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you, only to be with you
I have run, I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls, these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

 

[zooshadow]

Her skin is pale like God's only dove
Screams like an angel for your love


You don't know if it's fear or desire
Danger the drug that takes you higher

 

[FallingStar]

Get down of your holy cloud,
God will not deal with the proud


It's not what you're dreaming
But what you're gonna do

 

[corianderstem]

My current favorite lyric is from "Zooropa."

And I have no compass
And I have no map
And I have no reason
No reasons to get back

and

She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in
She's gonna dream out loud

 

[Schmeg]

Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checking out
I wanna get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love it won't be long

You miss too much these days if you stop to think

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well yes I'm still running

To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you wanna kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel (on your knees, boy!)

And I'd join the movement
If there was one I believed in
Yeah I'd break bread and wine
If there was a church I could recieve in

Well my heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between

Well if the sky can crack ther must be some way back
For love and only love

I'm ready
Ready for what's next
Ready to duck
Ready to dive
Ready to say I'm glad to be alive

I believe in a celebration
I believe in setting me free

It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success

Midnight is where the day begins

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

I hit an iceburg in my life
But you know I'm still afloat

Love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

You can sew it up but you still see the tear

Desperation is a tender trap
It gets you every time

If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say

And I know it aches and your heart it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on

A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around

Be the arrow and the target
Put your head over the parapet
Be uncool, yes be awkward!

And you can dream
So dream out loud
don't let the bastards grind you down

She is raging, she is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes

three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground

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

I want to be the song
The song that you hear in your head

You've been all over
And it's been all over you

I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

He said he was an artists
But he really painted billboards
In large capital letters
Large capital letters

WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE YOU DON'T NEED IT NOW
WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW YOU CAN FEEL IT SOMEHOW

Somebody stop me...I could go on all night...

 

[FallingStar]

This thread just made me aware that lyrics are really excelent when you read them out of their context and they just grab you!

 

[ACROB@T]

varies from time to time...~.~.

I know you'd hit out
If you only knew who to hit

Take the colours of my imagination
Take the scent hanging in the air
Take this tangle of a coversation
And turn it into your own prayer

You get to feel so guilty got so much for so little
Then you find that feeling just won't go away
You're holding on to every little thing so tightly
Till there's nothing left for you anyway

Love is drowning
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell

You wanted to get somewhere so badly
You had to loose yourself along the way

And time is a string of pearls

 

[Schmeg]

This thread just made me aware that lyrics are really excelent when you read them out of their context and they just grab you!

 

[U2girl91289]

If you should ask, then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes

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

And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so to fade away

I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh no,no,no



You gotta cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

She runs through the streets
With eyes painted red
Under a black belly of cloud in the rain
She brings me
White golden pearls,
Stolen from the sea

She is raging,
She is raging,
And a storm blows up in her eyes

She will
Suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand...
Still

These lyrics just put such images in my mind, and make me think. They're amazing

 

[brdemi]

Tonight, the moon is playing tricks again
I'm feeling seasick again
And the whole world could just dissolve
Into a glass of water

 

[CannibalisticArtist]

<<------take a wild guess