if you could claim any U2 lyrics as your own, which would you choose?

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The Wanderer

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Miami...

it's such a bad mofo, so f***ing dark and provocative, I know a lot of fans loath this song, but it's one of my favourites

weather 'round here choppin' and changin'
surgery in the air...
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her eyes are swimming pool blue
dumb bells on the diving board
babies always attracted to the things she's afraid of
big girl with the sweet tooth
watches skinny girl in the photo shoot
freshmen squeeky clean
she tastes... of chlorine
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we could make something beautiful
something that wouldn't be a problem....



yep, I love that stuff
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oh well, if I weren't in such a dark state of mind lately I probably would choose something else, but regardless, those lyrics are incredible

and when he plays around with the inflection in these lyrics:

said you looked like a madonna,
said maybe... I wanna have your baby... BABY


cool stuff...

your turn!
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[This message has been edited by The Wanderer (edited 04-20-2001).]
 
One thread i dear to tread...

I was broken, bent out of shape
I was naked in the clothes you made
Lips were dry, throat like rust
You gave me shelter from the heat and the dust
No more water in the well
No more water, water

Carnival
The wheels fly and the colors spin
Through alcohol
Red wine that punctures the skin
Face to face
In a dry and waterless place

How far you gonna go
Before you lose your way back home

No, nothing makes sense
Nothing seems to fit
I know you'd hit out
If you only knew who to hit
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
'cause I need it now

I took the money
I spiked your drink
You miss too much these days if you stop to think

You have to cry without weeping,
Talk without speaking,
SCREAM without raising your voice

E: all of the above
 
Cry without weeping
talk without speaking
scream without raising your voice....

Oh, oh on borderland we run....


Get your head out of the mud, baby...

... bruised silken sky and burning flags,
colors crushed, collide in bloodshot eyes...

I was thirsty and you wet my lips...


...the only baggage that you can bring
is all that you can't leave behind...
 
...and if you look, you look through me, and when you talk its not to me, and when I touch you, you don't feel a thing...

...I had a momma, she told me 'bout you: she said that true love don't lie- you touch that woman and the smoke won't leave your eyes...

...carnival, wheels fly and colours spin. Through alcohol, red wine that punctures the skin. Face to face in a dry and waterless place...

...Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world and a fucked up world it is too...

...take my heart, love is blindness...

...Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world- mutha' fuckin' rockin' roll!

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Come on, come on! Be good to me...
 
And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my

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

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass

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And love
Is not the easy thing
The only baggage
That you can bring
Not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

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I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And don't let the bastards grind you down

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Get your head out of the mud baby
Put flowers in the mud baby

Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright
Uncertainty can be a guiding light
I hear voices, ridiculous voices
Out in the slipstream
Let's go, let's go overground
Take your head out of the mud baby
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I have a brother
When I'm a brother in need
I spend my whole time running
He spends his running after me
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You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy
Then you get to like the way it feels


I have this weird thing, I always feel like Bono's singing to me...I'll try to stop now before I list every song ever written by them
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[This message has been edited by BabyGrace (edited 04-20-2001).]
 
A Sort of Homecoming, hands down.

"And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of morning light in the distance
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape"

Also:

"Walk till you run and don't look back, for here I am...I am only asking but I, I think you know...And if the mountain should crumble or disappear into the sea, not a tear, no not I"

"You've got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice"--probably the U2 lyric I have quoted in my journal more than any other.

There are others, but those are the main ones.
 
I totally agree with you on Miami. Those are amazing lyrics.

Lemon

Another Time, Another Place

"I awoke with a tear on my tongue.
In my sleep I discovered the one,
but she ran with the morning sun."

The Ocean

"A picture in grey, Dorian Gray
Just me by the sea.
And I felt like a star,
I thought the world could go far,
if they listened to what I said."

Love is Blindness

"Love is clockworks
and cold steel,
fingers too numb to feel.
Squeeze the handle.
Blow out the candle.
Love is blindness."

Staring at the Sun

"Summer stretchin on the grass.
Summer dresses pass.
In the shade of a willow tree,
creeps a crawlin over me.."

In a Little While

"A 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, a scatter of light."

..and others.

[This message has been edited by travu2 (edited 04-20-2001).]
 
This list is incredibly long. I don't know that I'd like to claim these but they are among my favorite lyrics - maybe there isn't really a difference. Anyway, I appologize for this indulgence.

I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
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


Get down off your holy cloud...Always
God will not deal with the proud...Always
Well if you dream then dream out loud...Always
Eternally yours...Always
You say come to know yourself...Always
Don't find yourself in someone else...Always
And always wear a safety belt...Always
Wait for me I'm running late...Always
This is the moment that we share...For always
Turn each song into a prayer...Always

Grace
She carries a 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 stings
Because grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things

Did I waste it
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Rooftop to the basement

I love you 'cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you 'cause I understand
That God has given me your hand
He holds me in a tiny fist
And still I need your kiss

You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

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

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
Hanging over my bed

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

All of Drowning Man and God Part II




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**Still looking for the
face I had before the
world was made....**

**Work like you don't
need money, love like
you've never been hurt,
and dance like no
one's watching.**
 
Who's gonna ride your wild horses
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea
Who's gonna taste your salt water kisses
Who's gonna take the place of me


Who's gonna ride your wild horses
Who's gonna tame the heart of thee
 
I have a lover
A lover like no other
She got soul, 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

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

For the first time
For the first time
For the first time

I feel love
 
Hmm, me bros in de hood wants me to rap ya dis song....

High, higha' dan de sun
You's shoot me fum some gun
I need ya' t'elevate me here
At co'na' of yo' lips
As de o'bit uh yo' hips
Eclipse
You's elevate mah' soul
I've gots no self control
Been livin' likes some mole now
Goin' waaay down,
'savashun I and ah' in de sky
You's make me feel likes ah' can fly
So's high
Elevashun

A star Lit down likes some cigar
Strung out likes some guitar
Maybe ya' kin educate mah' mind
Explain all dese controls
Can't rap but I've gots soul
De goal be elevashun
A mole Diggin' in some hole Diggin' down mah' soul now Goin' waaay down,
'savashun I and ah' in de sky
You's make me feel likes ah' can fly So's high
Elevashun

Love Lift me down out uh dese blues
Won't ya' tell me sump'n true
I recon' in ya'
A mole Diggin' in some hole
Diggin' down mah' soul now Goin' waaay down,
'savashun Higha'
now In de sky
You's make me feel likes ah' can fly
So's high
Elevashun
Elevashun
Elevashun
Elevashun
Elevashun
 
Any lyrics, huh? I'd really like to own "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)


Just the band
And the clamor
As an angel
Hits the ground

My number 2 choice would be "Holy Joe (Remix)"


Please..don't make me say please
To champagne and ice-cream
It's not what I want, it's what I need

Finally, my number 3 choice would be "One"


You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
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

*These are just my favorite excerpts from the songs, I'd like to have the whole thing
 
hey, zooman, I think it's "just the bang and the clatter"

foray
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The story of life is quick as the wink of an eye; The story of love is hello and goodbye. --Jimi Hendrix
 
all of "A Sort of Homecoming"

"Luminous Times":
I love you 'cause I need to
not because I need you
I love you 'cause I understand
that God gas given me your hand

"The Wanderer":
I went with nothing,
nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering

(well actually the lyrics to that entire song are amazing)

"Rejoice":
I can't change the world,
but I can change the world in me

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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it
 
This was a very difficult task and there are SO many incredible songs that I love (all of them in fact), but I have to say that I am absolutely amazed by:

I don't believe in painted roses
Or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again
When the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red
Over One Tree Hill

We run like a river
Run to the sea
We run like a river to the sea
And when it's raining
Raining hard
That's when the rain will
Break my heart
 
Is there a difference between favourite lyrics and ones you wish you'd written?
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Bicycling fish... where does your second quote come from?

I love Miami too... and Luminous Times... (can't remember it exactly, but...)

"She is the avalanche, she is the thunder, She is the wave and, She pulls me under..."
That bit with the "tiny fist" choked me up the first time I heard it...

Half of Joshua Tree, not least the bits everyone's quoting from Running to Stand Still, WOWY and especially what U2morrow quoted from One Tree Hill... ouch.

Love Is Blindess...

"Uncertainty can be your guiding light"

Pretty much all of Numb... Edge really needs to write more stuff.
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"Don't piss in the drain"

"Have another grape"

"Don't grab Don't clutch Don't hope for too much Don't breathe Don't achieve Or grieve without leave"

"Lie, die, serve Don't theorize, realise, polarise Glance, dance,dismiss, apologise"

"Don't struggle Don't jerk Don't collar Don't work, Don't wish Don't fish Don't teach Don't reach"

Go Edge...
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If God Would Send His Angels

God has got his phone off the hook, babe
Would he even pick up if he could
It's been a while since we saw that child
Hanging 'round this neighbourhood
You see his mother dealing in a doorway
See Father Christmas with a begging bowl
Jesus sister's eyes are a blister
The High Street never looked so low


It's the blind leading the blond
It's the cops collecting for the cons
So where is the hope and where is the faith
And the love...what's that you say to me
Does love...light up your Christmas Tree
The next minute you're blowing a fuse
And the cartoon network turns into the news


If God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Where do we go
Where do we go


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



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Condamn? par le doute, immobile et craintif
Je suis comme mon peuple, ind?cis et r?veur
Je parle ? qui veut de mon pays fictif
Le coeur plein de vertige et rong? par la peur

***I'm going to the May 27th gig in Montr?al. If some people want to meet me, well then just say it. Cheers
 
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