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Headache in a Suitcase said:
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U2's best song lyrically.
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zoopop
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Its so hard to do just pick one song. I think Bono is one the best song writers ever. His lyrics create so much open interpratation and imagery. Here are a few of the best:
A Sort Of A Homecoming
Running To Stand Still
With or Without You
Heartland
One
Until the End of the World
So Cruel
Ultra Violet
Love Is Blindness
Stay
Mofo
Staring at the Sun
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Please
City of Blinding Lights
One Step Closer
Yaweh
So I put so many. Bono's best lyrics on an album are AB and Pop. He took a step back with ATYCLB but really steped it up with his latest album.
A Sort Of A Homecoming
Running To Stand Still
With or Without You
Heartland
One
Until the End of the World
So Cruel
Ultra Violet
Love Is Blindness
Stay
Mofo
Staring at the Sun
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Please
City of Blinding Lights
One Step Closer
Yaweh
So I put so many. Bono's best lyrics on an album are AB and Pop. He took a step back with ATYCLB but really steped it up with his latest album.
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mysticchild
Acrobat
This a difficult one, hummmm, I am thinking God Part II. the pure honesty in the lyrics. The way that we are sinned from birth and we try to find a way to fight that natural instinct. For me , I will think strange thoughts and do crazy things. I have to pray for God's will everyday, to ask to be on the right path in my life. The way the world is today with taking care of the rich , well to do, and forgetting about the poor in the world. God is love, pure and simple love. since I have changed my bad ways, my life has improved so much. Thanks to God great song!
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RademR
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
Running to Stand Still
AquariumDrinker
The Fly
Easy for me: One.
LMP
Blue Crack Supplier
I gotta say The Fly, Mofo, October, Until the End of the World, Zooropa and Please are the the deep of the deepest of their songs
Mac Phisto
The Fly
The discussion begins and ends with "One".
ADecentMelody
War Child
zoopop said:
I felt the same way on ATYCLB. I felt Bono wrote a more direct group of songs on this album as opposed to poetically. There are some exceptions, of course, like Kite - wonderfully written song both lyrically and musically. I love how the second part of the second verse is a slide guitar part. It's like the emotion they're trying to convey cannot adequately be covered by words, but only by The Edge's guitar. Simply beautiful.
2861U2
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
There are so many, but if i had to pick one, I would pick......
hmmmmm......
Running To Stand Still
Either that or Wild Honey. And yes, Im serious. I love that song. GREAT lyrics. Very catchy.
hmmmmm......
Running To Stand Still
Either that or Wild Honey. And yes, Im serious. I love that song. GREAT lyrics. Very catchy.
snutes1
Acrobat
plot180 said:
Yesssssss, The Wanderer.
ADecentMelody said:
Agreed on both counts. SAMTM is very overlooked but has some wonderful lyrics. I love how poetic many of U2's JT-era songs were. Absolutely stunning.
I really have to disagree with your interpretation there, as Heartland is about a place and One Tree Hill about the death of a friend. One Tree Hill absolutely gets me every time ... especially the 26 December 1989 performance. I'm sure at least one other person here will agree with me when I say that's the best live performance of any song by any band ever.
boosterjuice
Refugee
I think that Achtung Baby is the best lyrical Album. Most songs from this CD have extremely deep lyrics.
One, Acrobat, Wild Horses, to name a few
One, Acrobat, Wild Horses, to name a few
tennispunk
Acrobat
Red Hill Mining Town
"We're wounded by fear/Injured in doubt/I can lose myself/You I can't live without"
In a Little While
"Man dreams one day to fly/A man takes a rocketship into the sky/He lives on a start that's dying in the night..."
also,
Running To Stand Still
The Fly
Streets
Stay
The Wanderer
"We're wounded by fear/Injured in doubt/I can lose myself/You I can't live without"
In a Little While
"Man dreams one day to fly/A man takes a rocketship into the sky/He lives on a start that's dying in the night..."
also,
Running To Stand Still
The Fly
Streets
Stay
The Wanderer
Catman
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I love the lyrics to "The Fly" 
angel_of_L.A.
Refugee
dandy said:
I agree. One Tree Hill--actually all of the Joshua Tree is poetry, A Sort of Homecoming, Bad, One, So Cruel, The Fly, Love is Blindness, Gone, October--that album has great lyrics as well. Your Blue Room is great, gosh so many great songs.
RickFly
Refugee
ONE, ACROBAT, ONE TREE HILL, SOME TIMES YOU CANT MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN, KITE, .... OK I AM GOING TO STOP HERE. I COULD GO ON AND ON.
Dalton
Blue Crack Addict
beli said:
AGREED
Jack In The Box
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
AB and Pop, both are amazing in lyrics
JT in its entirety, I believe, is lyrical brilliance. Interestingly, it isn't my favourite U2 album, but I do believe it's the strongest in terms of lyrics.
One Tree Hill
Red Hill Mining Town
Running to Stand Still
Mothers of the Disappeared
One Tree Hill
Red Hill Mining Town
Running to Stand Still
Mothers of the Disappeared
U2_Muse
War Child
anitram said:JT in its entirety, I believe, is lyrical brilliance. Interestingly, it isn't my favourite U2 album, but I do believe it's the strongest in terms of lyrics.
One Tree Hill
Red Hill Mining Town
Running to Stand Still
Mothers of the Disappeared
Agreed. Plus, not from JT, I'll add:
Bad
Heartland
One
Acrobat
I believe Bad is the best song ever written both musically and lyrically combined. I've been a U2 fan since "October" and I have never felt anything like that tune.
From a pure lyric standpoint, I cast votes for One Tree Hill, Sort of Homecoming, Stuck in a Moment, and Miami.
From a pure lyric standpoint, I cast votes for One Tree Hill, Sort of Homecoming, Stuck in a Moment, and Miami.
Windmilllane
War Child
Wake Up Dead Man
TheBrazilianFly
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
If it wasn’t for the Bob Dylan co-writing thingy, Love Rescue Me would get the prize. It's ABSOLUTELY beautiful and amazing. But since I don't know who wrote what I can't say it's U2's best lyrics.
I have thought about this a million times and I don't know if I ever came to a conclusion. Maybe I come to one now. I don't think a lyric has to tell a story or even be cohesive, it just has to move you in some way and well... be good. So I think in U2's case it’s The Fly. I love great lines and this song is made out of amazing lines. There's not one bad line there. It's full of Bono's truisms and I love that! Everything Bono is saying there is true and fascinating.
The great thing though about it is that at first they just seem to be random thoughts brought together, they don't seem to connect and tell you a story of any kind at first but in the end Bono makes his magic and they all end up connecting. I love the idea of a man calling from hell and telling some truths about the universe, opening up the Pandora box and letting us know of secrets. I like these kinds of larger than life subjects that are both unknown and mysterious but at the same time rich enough in the collective unconscious that allows you to get lost in it. And U2 has a thing for that kind of stuff I think.
There are some songs that I think are equally good lyrically speaking and that could challenge The Fly on the "number one" spot. Here they are:
God Part II
Where The Streets Have No Name
Last Night On Earth
Zoo Station
Sunday Bloody Sunday (which contrary to Axver I think are better than New Year's Day)
Like A Song
Hawkmoon 269
Gone
Bullet The Blue Sky
Please
The Wanderer
I have thought about this a million times and I don't know if I ever came to a conclusion. Maybe I come to one now. I don't think a lyric has to tell a story or even be cohesive, it just has to move you in some way and well... be good. So I think in U2's case it’s The Fly. I love great lines and this song is made out of amazing lines. There's not one bad line there. It's full of Bono's truisms and I love that! Everything Bono is saying there is true and fascinating.
The great thing though about it is that at first they just seem to be random thoughts brought together, they don't seem to connect and tell you a story of any kind at first but in the end Bono makes his magic and they all end up connecting. I love the idea of a man calling from hell and telling some truths about the universe, opening up the Pandora box and letting us know of secrets. I like these kinds of larger than life subjects that are both unknown and mysterious but at the same time rich enough in the collective unconscious that allows you to get lost in it. And U2 has a thing for that kind of stuff I think.
There are some songs that I think are equally good lyrically speaking and that could challenge The Fly on the "number one" spot. Here they are:
God Part II
Where The Streets Have No Name
Last Night On Earth
Zoo Station
Sunday Bloody Sunday (which contrary to Axver I think are better than New Year's Day)
Like A Song
Hawkmoon 269
Gone
Bullet The Blue Sky
Please
The Wanderer
BrownEyedBoy
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Walk to the Water
bw in dc said:
I remember one day at school, I showed someone the lyrics to Bad and their comment was "yeah, I can see why it's called Bad." Ugh, some people have no taste.
Oh, I actually agree with you (though I prefer NYD as a song); I was just providing a completely random example.
mysticchild
Acrobat
I have to say for a person to say that Bad is bad , they have no clue of great music. Bad is my favorite U2 song of all time. To me that sounds like U2 , a signature sound.
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