Single Greatest Line Of Any U2 Song

[believer75]

Many, many great lines, but this one sticks out today:

And if the mountain should crumble
Or disappear into the sea
Not a tear, no not I

 

[brycerxer]

"I've seen you walk unafraid
I've seen you in the clothes you made
Can you see the beauty inside of me?
What happened to the beauty I had inside of me"

"I'm a man, I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes"

"And 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."

"I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm till you discover how deep...
I wasn't jumping... for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all...
...It's just a moment, This time will pass"

 

[bonocomet]

God is Love And Love is Evolution's Very Best Day

 

[Cask]

One of my favorites:

And 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

 

[Patricia Ryan]

I have so many:

A VAMPIRE OR A VICTIM IT DEPENDS ON WHOS AROUND

WITH A MOUTH FULL OF TEETH YOU ATE ALL YOIR FRIENDS AND YOU BROKE EVERY HEART THINKING EVERY HEART MENDS...

YOU GOTTA CRY WITHOUT WEEPING TALK WITHOUT SPEAKING...



AND YOU NEVER FELT LOVE UNTIL SOMEONE SLAPPED YOUR FACE

I CANT CHANGE THE WORLD BUT I CAN CHANGE THE WORLD IN ME IF I REJOICE

 

[europop2005]

Time won't take the boy out of this man

 

[astepcloser24]

I'm not the only one who'd rather just go blind.

 

[karmic_postmark]

How can you stand next to the truth and not see it

I disappeared in you
You disappeared from me

 

[Earl-Of-IMDb]

You broke the bonds, loose the chains, carried the cross of my shame, ooh my shame you know i believe it"

'were one but were not the same, we get to carry each other carry each other, one'

"the rule have been disprove, the stone has been moved, the grave is now a groove, all debts have been removed"

'we fight all the time, you and i, that's all right, were the same soul'

 

[aptdot]

We're still building then burning down love, burning down love, and when I go there...I go there with you

 

[pmickey]

Two lines...

"I can't believe the news today"

And my all time favorite...

"I have spoke with the tongue of angels, I have held the hand of the devil"

One more bonus...

"One life, with each other. Sisters, brothers."

 

[bombergirl1978]

Love, slowly stripped away
Love, has seen it's better day.

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

 

[Addicted To Bad]

"You hurt yourself you hurt your lover
than you discover
what you thought was freedom is just greed"


"If I could through myself set your spirit free
I´d lead your heart away
see you break, break away
Into the light
and to the day"

 

[zooropop40]

"Uncertainty can be a guiding light"

"you miss too much these days when you stop to think"

"Night hangs like a prisoner, stretched over black and blue, hear its heartbeat."

"Intellectual Tortoise"

 

[paultjr]

"I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said, love, rescue me."

 

[boNOSE]

Love is blindness:

A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense

Ultraviolet:

I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb

** the lightbulb is a symbol for an awareness of one's own mortality in the paintings of Francis Bacon.

And this is great too IMHO NLOTH:

I know a girl who’s like a sea
I watch her changing every day for me
One day she’s still, the next she swells
You can hear the universe in her sea shells
I know a girl with a hole in her heart
She said infinity’s a great place to start
“Time is irrelevant, it’s not linear”
Then she put her tongue in my ear
Hanging over my bed

meh, there's so many great lyrics from U2. Hard to find a bad one.

I even like "Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby's head"

 

[Carek1230]

I've spent the last couple of days really listening to the lyrics on NLOTH and I'm feeling some of the best lines are:

Time is irrelevant, it's not linear (NLOTH)

Only love, only love can leave such a mark
Only love, only love can heal such a scar (Magnificent)

Every beauty needs to go out with an Idiot (I'll Go Crazy...)

Laughter is Eternity if Joy is real (Boots)

and this one....quite poignant:

Choose your enemies carefully
'cos they will define you
Make them interesting
'cos in some way they will mind you
They're not there in the Beginning
but when your story ends,
-Gonna last with you longer than your Friend. (Cedars of Lebanon)

 

[Bonoa]

*sorry* s'thing went wrong!

 

[Bonoa]

and this one....quite poignant:

Choose your enemies carefully
'cos they will define you
Make them interesting
'cos in some way they will mind you
They're not there in the Beginning
but when your story ends,
-Gonna last with you longer than your Friend. (Cedars of Lebanon)

Love it.

 

[boNOSE]

Love it.

Sooo, the last time I saw some at the end of their story, they were surrounded by friends, not enemies.. what does this line mean?

 

[last unicorn]

I always have to think of the proverb we have here: A person's greatness will be defined by their enemies.

I totally like that analogy. If I think about Bono, I'd say people with great ideas always have enemies. You can see how great a person really is by the number of their enemies and by the passion they're fighting them with.

 

[Mango]

Best from NLOTH:

You can hear the universe in her seashells

3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face

 

[GretzkyU2Yanks]

how dare I use a lyric from HTDAAB on this board and all, but............

time wont leave me as I am
but time wont take the boy out of this man


what a simple way to describe the struggle of growing old and a postive outlook by saying he'll beat time.

 

[Tommy WM]

'Would have been a sissy without Johnny Cash'

No actually it's:

'Oh dont sorrow, no dont weep
For tonight, at last
I am coming home'

 

[bonoschild2009]

I think it's, "Don't let the bastards grind you down..."

 

[nielsgov]

My favourite lines are : 'And if the mountains should crumble
Or disappear into the sea
Not a tear, no not I.'

 

[JoRu]

I don't know if anyone has taken this, but here we go:

From Until The End Of The World:

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

Ingenious song-writing.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

fuck yes! I absolutely adore that from UTEOTW

 

[kpod]

Haunted by her side
It's a darkness in her eyes
That so enslaves me
But if my love is blind
Then I don't want to see
She's a mystery to me

 

[dodaditty21]

yeah! homework! I am going to pick my lines!!