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take this soul and make it sing-yahweh

your gravity searching for the ground, Your silence searching for a sound-Mercy

All of Miracle drug

All of Stay (fave song!)

All of Ultraviolet

I could never take a chance, on loosing love to find romance, in the mysterious distance between a man and a woman

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and how could I forget all of GOD PART II!!!
 
Everything from "the wind will crack" to "she will die, and live again....tonight" from A Sort of Homecoming. Did my interferecne name give it away??? As for why, it's just very evocative to me.

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The whoops on my breath is a fear of death that makes such a man promiscuous, your mouth was dry like you're about to lie, and her lips are so luscious...

I took the money, I spiked your drink, you miss too much these days if you stop to think, you led me on with those innocent eyes, you know I love the element of surprise, in the garden I was playing the tart, I kissed your lips and broke your heart, you- you were acting like it was the end of the world...

You're dangerous cos you're honest, you're dangerous, you don't know what you want, well you leave my heart empty as a vacant lot, for any spirit to haunt, You're an accident- waiting to happen, you're a piece of glass- left there on the beach, well I tell you things I know I'm not supposed to, then you leave me just out of reach...

The men who love you you hate the most, they pass right through you like a ghost, they look for you, but your spirit is in the air, baby- you're nowhere...

It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help, it's no secret a liar won't believe anyone else, they say a secret is something that you tell one other person, so I'm telling you- child...

Nothing much to say I guess, just the same as all the rest, I've been trying to throw my arms round the world, and a woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle, when you're trying to throw your arms around the world...

You bury your treasure where it can't be found, but your love is like a secret that's been passed around, there is a silence that comes to a house, where no one can sleep, I guess it's the price of love, I know it's not cheap...

And you can swallow or you can spit, you can choke on it, or throw it up, and you can dream- so dream out loud, you know that your time is coming round, so don't let the bastards grind you down...

Love is blindness, I don't want to see, won't you wrap the night around me?

Watching your bright blue eyes in the freeze frame, I've seen them so many times, I feel like I must be your best friend, you're lookin so fine, so fine, oh my, dressed up like a lovely day, oh babyface, babyface...

Green light, seven eleven, you stop in for a pack of cigarettes, you don't smoke, don't even want to, hey now check your change, dressed up like a car crash, the wheels are turning but you're upside down, you say when he hits you, you don't mind, because when he hits you, you feel alive, is that what it is? Red light-grey morning, you stumble out of a hole in the ground, a vampire or victim, it depends on who's around...

You're a precious stone, you're out on your own, you know everyone in the world, but you feel all alone...

Some days you work- most days you're lazy, some days you feel like a bit of a baby, looking for Jesus and his mother, some days are better than others...

I have a lover, a lover like no other, she got soul, soul, sweet soul, and she teach me how to sing, shows me colours when there's none to see, gives me hope when I can't believe, that for the first time, I feel love, I have a brother, when I'm a brother in need, I spend my whole time running, he spends his running after me, when I feel myself going down, I just call and he comes around, but for the first time, I feel love...

I don't know you, and you don't know the half of it, I had the starring role- I was the bad guy who walked out, they say be careful where you aim, because where you aim, you just might hit, you can hold onto something so tight, you've already lost it, dragging me down, that's not the way it used to be, you can't even remember- what I'm trying to forget...

I'm not afraid of anything in this world, there's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard, I'm just trying to find a decent melody, a song that I can sing in my own company...

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...

Home- hard to know what it is if you never had one, Home- I can't say where it is, but I know I'm going, Home- that's where the hurt is...

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

In a little while, I won't be blown by every breeze, Friday night running to Sunday on my knees, that girl, that girl- she's mine, and I've known her since- since she was a little girl with Spanish eyes, when I saw her in a pram they pushed her by, my how you've grown, well it's been- been a little while...

I'm still standing, I'm still standing where you left me, I'm still growing wild, with everything tame around me...

When the night is someone else's, and I'm trying to get some sleep, when my thoughts are too expensive, to ever want to keep, when there's all kinds of chaos, and everyone is walking lame, you don't even blink now, do you, don't even look away...

Grace - She carries the world on her hips, no champagne flute for her lips, no twirls or skips between her fingertips, she carries a pearl in perfect condition,what once was hurt, what once was friction, what left a mark- no longer stains, because grace makes beauty out of ugly things, grace finds beauty in everything, grace finds goodness in everything...

Looking for the one, but you know you're somewhere else instead, you want to be the song, the song that you hear in your head, it's no trick, because you can't learn it, it's the way you pay, that's ok- because you can't earn it, You know you're chewing bubble gum, you know what that is, but you still want some, you just can't get enough of that lovey dovey stuff...

Take these hands - they're good for nothing, you know these hands never worked a day, take these boots - they're going nowhere, you know these boots don't want to stray, you got my head filled with songs, you got my shoelaces undone, take my shirt - go on, take it off me, you can tear it up if you can tie me down...

Looking for a sound that's going to drown out the world, looking for the father of my two little girls, got the swing, got the sway, got my strong lemonade, still looking for the face I had before the world was made, mother, motherfucker to the rock and rock n roll...

I never bought a Lotto ticket, I never parked in anyone's space, the banks, they're like cathedrals, I guess casinos took their place, Love, come on down, don't wake me - I'll come around...

Tonight- the moon has drawn its curtains, it's a private show - no-one else gonna know I'm wanting you...

I have kissed honey lips, felt the healing fingertips, it burned like fire, this burning desire, I have spoke with the tongue of angels, I have held the hand of the devil, it was warm in the night, I was cold as a stone, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for...

I wanna trip inside your head, spend the day there, to hear the things you haven't said, and see what you might see, I wanna hear you when you call, do you feel anything at all, I wanna see your thoughts take shape and work right out...

You were pretty as a picture, it was all there to see, in your face caught up with your psychology, with a mouth full of teeth, you ate all your friends, and you broke every heart, thinking every heart mends...

I'm on an island in a busy intersection, I can't go forward, and I can't turn back, can't see the future, it's getting away from me, I just watch the tail-lights glowing, I'm one step closer to knowing, I'm hanging out to dry with my old clothes, finger still red with the prick of an old rose, well the heart that hurts is a heart that beats, can you hear the drummer slowing?

Some things you shouldn't get too good at, like smiling, crying and celebrity, some people got way too much confidence baby, baby, I give everything you want, except the thing that you want, you are the first one of your kind, and you feel like no one before, you steal right under my door, I kneel 'cause I want you some more, I want the lot of what you got, and I want nothing that you're not...

Take these hands, teach them what to carry, take these hands, don't make a fist, take this mouth, so quick to criticise, take this mouth- give it a kiss...

I'm not dizzy, just busy, didn't drink nothing fizzy, no pills to feel easy, don't know what got in to me, daylight's a kinda robbery, the night is your geography, so you're not white, you're pink and rosy, you could be right but you're way above me, Me - I'm in recovery, a star of pornography, I'm a tourist - there's a lot to see , you don't like the photographs of me, if so you've got a lot to say, you don't sleep around but sometimes you stray, you don't believe - often times you pray, for something - what is it babe? Don't treat me like I'm a trick, I won't treat you like you're a prick, don't need no doctor - I'm not sick, I'm not your baby, everything is alright - everything is alright, I'm not your baby - please...


What can I say? I'm a big fan. I love it all.
 
Someone brought up "if the sky can crack, there must be some way back for love and only love...."
and comes "let's see colors that have never been seen, let's go to places no one else has been..."

Ditto!

And of course "teach/reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case..."

Simply seminal :drool: :drool:
 
where to start...hmmm...

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes


He said he was an artist
But he really painted billboards
In large capital letters
Large capital letters
He was telling jokes
Nobody else would listen to him
I saw you that day
Your lips were cherry red
Your legs were crossed
Your arms wide open
(walk to the water)
 
What a great topic! :applaud:
Extremely difficult to limit choices but my absolute favourites include:

Like a rhythm unbroken,
Like drums in the night,
Like sweet soul music,
Like sunlight,
I need your love


I see the purple of her eyes,
The scarlet of my lies


I don't believe that Rock 'N' Roll
can really change the world,
as it spins in revolution (baby), spirals and turns


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


In waves of regret, waves of joy,
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy


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


Lift my days...light up my nights

Waves that leave me out of reach,
breaking on your back like a beach,
will we ever live in peace?
'cause those that can't do often have to,
those that can't do, often have to preach....
to the ones staring at the sun


You hurt yourself, your hurt your lover,
then you discover....
what you thought was freedom was just greed


Love, lift me up out of these blues,
Won't you tell me something true, I believe in you


As you enter this life, I pray you depart,
With a wrinkled face, And a brand new heart


SEE? I said it would be very difficult!!! :wink: I could go on and on.....there's just sooooo many! :bow: :drool: :bow: :drool: :bow:
 
RTSS:
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out
You got to cry with out weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
You know I took the poison from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here

in a little while:

when the night takes a deep breath
and the daylight has no air

Mysterious ways:

one day you'll look back
and you'll see
where you were held up by this love
while you could stand there
you could move in this moment
follow this feeling

walk on:
And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for one second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't steal it
No, they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

maybe my most favorite of all time, from Love Rescue Me:

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow
Yet I will fear no evil
I have cursed they rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me

I've conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
 
1. I can't change the world, but I can change the world in me
2. Your love was a light bulb hanging over my head
3. Days, days, days, run away like horses run over the hill
4. car alarm won't let you back to sleep, you're kept awake dreaming someone else's dream
5. well my heart is where it's always been, my head is somewhere in between
6. we're free to fly the crimson sky, the sun won't melt our wings tonight
7. and your heart beats so slow through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance
Oh, don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight at last I am coming home
I am coming home


there are lots more
 
this is really difficult....uffiiii....I think it always depends in which mood you are in....hmmm but right now my favourites are:

1. My father is a rich man
He wears a rich man's cloak
Gave me the keys to his kingdom coming
Gave me a cup of gold
He said I have many mansions
And there are many rooms to see
But I left by the back door
And I threw away the key
And I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key

2. Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio
With satellite television
You can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans
London, Belfast and Berlin

3.What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
It's a Beautiful Day

4.And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass

but as you all have mentioned there are too many !!!!

maybe it would be easier to respond to which lyrics we don't like eheheh
 
just read this thread and it brings a tear to my eye, its like my whole life has justflashed before my eyes!My personal fav is

"a link is lost the chain undone we wait all day for night to come"

closely followed by

"yeah we'll shine like stars in the summer night, we'll shine like stars in the winter night, one heart one hope one love"

and

"He saw the hands that build
Could also pull down....
The hands of love"
 
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me

The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me

...and all of Love is Blindness
 
I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby

^ The best part of "Stuck in a Moment." Sometimes I like the song, sometimes I don't because it seems like it goes on for a long time.

IMO the songs with the best lyrics are all of One and Love is Blindness.
 
I love this from Electrical storm
You're in my mind all the time, I know that's not enough.

Oh and has anyone heard Mercy!? I love the lyrics like the whole way through that, i can't beleive they cut it off HTDAAB!!!!:eek:
 
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There are rumours that they're going to put it on the new album :shrug: But I agree, it's way better than A Man and a Woman and All Because Of You.
 
if you should ask then mabye they'll tell you what i would say true colours fly in blue and black through silken sky and burning flak - Bad

BLOOWWWWWWN BY THE WIND - WTSHNN

Every artist is a cannibal every poet is a thief - The Fly
 
I wanna ruuuuuuuuuun - Streets

all kill their inspiration and think about the grief- the fly

is it getting better or do you feel the same- one
 
We´re one, but we´re not the same.

Acrobat.

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside......

It´s just a moment, this time will pass.
 
If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes, I would
If I could, I would...let it go...
surrender,...dislocate

If I could throw this lifeless
Lifeline to the wind,
Leave this heart of clay,
See you walk,...walk away
Into the night..
And through the rain,
Into the half-light...
And through the flame

If I could trough myself
Set your spirit free,
I'd lead your heart away,
See you break, break away...
Into the light...and to the day

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

I'm wide awake,
I'm wide awake....
I'm not sleeping!
Oh, no, no!

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


From my humble opnion, that's poetry, can't add anything else.

(I haven't written the end of the song 'cause I don't think it's at the same literary level, even if it adds a strong, dramatic tag to the song itself, its power is in the music and Bono's interpretation, not in the words by themselves)
 
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Wow, so many favourite lyrics to choose from!

"I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls that hold me tonight"
- Not up to his poetic best, but the way Bono belts out these words in Streets just makes me want to yell along with him!

"I love you 'cause I need to, not because I need you" (Luminous Times (Hold On To Love) ). Amazing, amazing line.

"We get to carry each other" (One).
-When I realised I'd been singing this wrong (got, instead of get) I suddenly had a realisation of the real power of this song. This is an incredible line, especially in light of how most poeple sing it. 'Get' and 'got' are very different in this context. Its really important to get it right to get the message of the song. I completely understand why Bono gets so annoyed with poeple getting it wrong!

"looking for it to fill that God shaped hole" - Mofo. also, an amzing line. (Which I believe Bono stole from Balise Pascal...)

"What you got they can't steal it
No, they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on"

haha, this is like verbal diahrea! I just keep thinking of more!

from "shows me colours when theres none to see.....to....I have brother, when im a brother in need i spend my hole time running he spends his running after me....etc"

and last but not least -
"Lit up like a cigar, strung out like a guitar" - not particularly profound, just a really good lyric!

oh, and all of Bad...but thats practically a given!
 
Interestingly, some of my favourites are the unofficial extra verses that Bono sometimes adds to songs:

"Yeah, we'll shine like stars in the summer night, we'll shine like stars in the winter night, one hope, one love, one blood..." (With or Without You)

"Do you hear us coming Lord, do you hear us call? Do you hear us knocking, we're knocking at your door... Do you hear us coming Lord, hear us crawl? See us scratching, will you make us crawl?" (One)
 
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