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Basstrap

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We all know Bono has a tendancy to write these extraoridnary lyrics which are clever and mind-bending. List a few of your faves...

I LOVE this one!

Every artist is a cannibal
every poet is a theif
all kill their inspiration and song about their grief

so true
.
.
end.
.
 
I know a girl, a girl called Party

Your love was like a lightbuld hanging over my head

You know you're chewing Bubblegum

You know some places are like your auntie But there's no place like Miami

Michael Jackson History

I was a Monkey
 
Ambition bites the nails of success.

She brings me white golden pearls stolen from the sea, she is raging, she is raging.


No clue what he means but man does it sound good. :)

Cheryl
 
doctorwho said:


Bonochick: you love EVERYONE's avatar! LOL! Face it, you are an avatar ho. ;)

By the way, I like your avatar too - very cute and original. :D
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Okay, okay, but yours and Basstrap's are my favorites!!!!! :)

And thank you...:D
 
Giant Lemon said:
Agreed.

There would be so many fewer works of art if everyone was happy all the time- from great suffering comes great art.
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Sadly, this seems to be true of many creative endeavors.

If it's all the same to you, I'm glad I'm not Vincent van Gogh, or Mozart, or Beethoven, or John Nash. I could have told you Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you...

Oh, wait, this thread was supposed to be abot U2 lyrics. So...

Don't believe in Goldman, his type like a curse
Instant karma's going to get him if I don't get him first

And the battle's just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On a Sunday, bloody Sunday

It's the blind leading the blond
It's the stuff, the stuff of country songs

She's cocoa butter
Baby, she's the glue

It's the puppets who pull the strings
 
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bomb blast lightning waltz

and if you look, you look through me.. if when you talk you talk at me.. and when i touch you, you don't feel a thing. let alone the entire song Stay, is quite wow.
 
A few of my favorites...


I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me


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


This desparation.
Dislocation.
Separation.
Condemnation.
Revelation.
In temptation.
Isolation.
Desolation.
 
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


I LOVE this. I have only just recently discovered the magic of UTEOTW!
 
A lot of my picks have been mentioned already, so I will just add the following:

Have you come here to play Jesus/To the lepers in your head?
 
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't leave behind......
-------------------------
Who's to say where the wind will take you?
Who's to know 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
But I know that this is not good-bye.
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I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colours will bleed into one, bleed into one
But yes, I'm still running
You broke the fall and you loosed the chains
Carried the cross of my shame, of my shame
You know I believe it
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
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One life, but we're not the same
Well, we hurt each other then we do it again.
 
So Cruel

So cruel has some very clever little lyrics!!

We're cut adrift
But still floating
I'm only hanging on
To watch you go down
My love
 
You're a piece of glass left out on the beach

Your love is like a secret that's been passed around

I disappeared in you; you disappeared from me
I gave you everything you ever wanted
Wasn't what you wanted
 
don't get me started on Bono's lyrics! ;) it is my weakness!

but okay.. a few:

"She wears my love like a see-through dress"

"In the summer I can taste the salt of the sea"

"Under black belly of cloud in the rain."

"She will die and live again, tonight"

"See the stars shine like nails in the night"

"She feels like water in my hand/Freeway like a river cuts through this land"

"Sunrise like a nosebleed"

"Love is blindness/I don't want to see/Won't you wrap the night/Around me"

"You can sew it up but you still see the tear"

"Listen over the rhythm that's confusing you"

:bono: *makes herself stop*
 
I love those from Olive.

My favorite of all time:

I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky and the moon has turned red...
 
No one has posted my favorite lyrics yet!


I took a drive in the dirty rain
to a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees, the river laughing at you and me
Hallelujah
Heaven's white rose
The doors you open, I just can't close


*sigh*

I just love that.
 
some of my favorites: :)

And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape

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

Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright
Uncertainty can be a guiding light

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

There is a silence that comes to a house
Where no one can sleep

I could list lyrics forever, but I'll try to stop now... ;)
 
jkayet said:
some of my favorites: :)

And I have no compass
And I have no map
And I have no reasons
No reasons to get back
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and also
"did I waste it? Not so much I couldn't taste it"

*sob*

and "They say they want the Kingdom but they don't want God in it" (that whole song ROCKS)

"like a siren she comes to me"
 
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a few more ;)

Something
Is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it means

Does love...light up your Christmas Tree

You're holding on to every little thing so tightly
'Til there's nothing left for you anyway

And some days have bouncers and won't let you in
 
wtf? you wanna kill me? anyway to much for my 'lil brain to handle! bastard!....anyway, i'll try.....
heres some:

" You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for "
-
" Desert sky
Dream beneath a desert sky
The rivers run but soon run dry
We need new dreams tonight"
-
" If there's an order in all of this disorder
Is it like a tape recorder
Can we rewind it just once more "
-
"There's an insect in your ear
If you scratch it won't disappear
It's going to itch and burn and sting
You want to see what the scratching brings "
-
" Angry words won't stop the fight
Two wrongs won't make it right
A new heart is what I need
Oh God, make it bleed "

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and soooooo many more .......*makes self stop now*


DAMN YOU!:scream:
 
wertsie said:
Yeah, I definitely agree about that "from suffering comes great art" remark. That's true for me, at least.
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I like U2's opinion that sad music is too easy to write and happy music is the hardest. ATYCLB epitomises this thought.

foray
 
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