Post favorite lines from songs...

[theu2fly]

Even Better Than The Real Thing
We're free to fly, the crimson sky, the sun won't burn our wings tonight

Zoo Station
Time is a train, makes the future the past, leaves you standing in the station, your face pressed up against the glass

The Fly
But love, we shine like a burning star, falling from the sky, tonight...

One Tree Hill
We turned away to face the cold, enduring chill as the day begs the night for mercy love, the sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only the scars, carved into stone on the face of earth... I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts, or bullets rape the night, for mercy love, I'll see you again when stars fall from the sky, and the moon has turned red, over One Tree Hill

Where The Streets Have No Name
The City's aflood, and our love turns to rust... we are beaten and blown by the wind, trampled in dust, I'll show you a place, high on a desert plane

Into the Heart
Into the heart, of a child, I can stay a while, I can go there

More to come

 

[clifedge]

Stay

You used to stay to watch the adverts
You could lip-synch to the talk shows

 

[ljclary]

City of Blinding Light

Don't Look Before you Laugh
Look Ugly in a Photograph

I guess this is b/c I am one of those people that kinda just explodes with laughter (usually with spit!!) and I am always butt in pics!!

 

[chocky]

"a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" - best ever lyric (Tryin to Throw Your Arms Around the World)

 

[catlhere]

For Sad Me:
"Love don't need to find a way
You find your own way
I forget that I can't stay
And so I say that
All roads lead to where you are
All roads lead to where you are"

For Happy Me:
"Shake It! Shake It! Shake It!
Salome!"

 

[DignityPassesBy]

Until The End Of The World - (the whole thing really but owell)

In the garden
I was playing the tart
I kissed your lips
And broke your heart

One -

Have you come here for forgivness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play jesus
To the leepers in my head

Crumbs from your table -

Where you live
Should not decide
Whether you live
Or whether you die

Kite -

I'm a man
I'm not a child
A man who see's
The shadow behind your eyes

Gone -

You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy
Then you learn to like the way it feels.
You hurt yourself, you hurt your lover
Then you discover
What you thought was freedom is just greed

Acrobat -

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.

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own -

And its you when i look in the mirror
And its you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

The Fly -

Every artist is a cannable
Every poet is a theif
All kill their inspiration
And sing about their grief

Bad -

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

thats all for the moment ... i'll think of more soon

 

[chocky]

Luminous Times:
-------------------------
I love you cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you cause I understand
That God had given me your hand
It holds me in a tiny fist
And still I need your kiss
Hold on to love, hold
See the sunlight in her soul


Deep in the Heart:
----------------------------
Thirteen years old, sweet as a rose
Every petal of her paper thin
Love will make you blind
Creep up from behind
Get you jumping out of your skin


Spanish Eyes:
---------------------
Baby hang on
You know that the night is young
Dazzled by lights that shine in your eyes
I'm standing in the shadows
And wait for the night
Forever in fever, forever in heat
You pick me up, to put me out on the street

 

[Smilla]

Let's see colours that have never been seen,
let's go to places noone else has been

 

[Smilla]

Love sees when I lie
Love puts the blue back in my eye

 

[NYRangers78]

The Fly:

every artist is a cannibal / every poet is a thief / they kill for inspiration / and sing about the grief.....

 

[JCOSTER]

All the words to "A Sort of Homecoming"....

 

[Roland of Gilead]

Midnight is where the day begins - brilliant line

 

[MrBrau1]

With a mouth full of teeth,
you ate all your friends,
and you broke every heart,
thinking every heart mends.

 

[thefly418]

Running To Stand Still
She will
Suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand
STILL

 

[Clawgrabber]

"a man melts the sand so he can see the world outside"

BEST LYRIC EVER

also

"man makes a picture
a moving picture
through the light projected
he can see himself up close
a man captures color
a man likes to stare
turns his money into light
so he can look for her"

those are, to me, unlike any other lyrics - by U2 or otherwise.

 

[victor_f]

COBL

Time won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man

The Fly

It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest

 

[hcbiggs2002]

With or without You

Through the storm, we reach the shore
You gave it all, but I want more
And I'm waiting for You...


Walk On

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen


Yahweh

Take this mouth, so quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss

 

[joe_leedsfc07]

Unforgetable Fire

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

BAd

If you should ask, then maybe
They'd tell you what I would say
True colours fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag.
Colours crash, collide in blood-shot eyes

Until the end of the world

"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they'd learned to swim"

"Waves of regret and waves of joy.
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy"

Acrobat
Acrobat

Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see
If you just close your eyes you can feel the enemy.
When I first met you girl, you had fire in your soul.

The Fly
"Every artist is a cannibal every poet is a thief now kill their inspiration and sing about their grief"

One tree hill

I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill.

just to name a few

 

[discotech]

You know i got black eyes
but they burn so brightly for her. . .



For primitive love
And a ride on the mystery train
A primitive love
A room at the heart
The heartbreak hotel. . .

 

[achtungjulie]

'I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts'
-One Tree Hill

'And if you shout, I'll only hear you'
-Stay

'You hurt yourself, you hurt your lover,
Then you discover,
What you thought was freedom is just greed'
-Gone


there are so many others....

 

[prisz25]

Wow I have SO many....

City of Blinding Lights
"Time won't leave me as I am
Time won't take the boy out of this man"

All of The Unforgettable Fire

11 o' clock tick tock
"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong"

Acrobat
"And you can dream
So dream out loud"

Bad
"I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
I'm not sleeping"

I have a whole lot more....

 

[Pistol Pete]

In my dreams i was drowning my sorrows but my sorrows they learned to swim/ surrounding me going down on me spilling over the brim! UTEOTW

You can't even remember what I'm trying to forget DD

 

[lady luck]

One
"When all you got is hurt"


Red hill mining town
"Hangin on, you're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting"

The ground beneath her feet
"Let me bring you to where two roads meet"

 

[bombergirl1978]

I agree with alot of those, but one of my all time favorites is:

"Can't sing but Ive got soul, the goal, is elevation."

Its not my favorite song, but it sums up my experience with U2. I can't sing, but Ive got soul and U2 elevates me

 

[Dismantled]

We're free to fly the crimson sky
The sun won't melt our wings tonight.
Oh now, oh yeah, here she comes
Take me higher, take me higher


Neon heart dayglo eyes
A city lit by fireflies

They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by the moon
Y' know I don't see you when she walks in the room.

If you should ask, then maybe
They'd tell you what I would say
True colours fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag.
Colours crash, collide in blood-shot eyes.


I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name
...when he sings that part shivers run through me

 

[Carek1230]

OMG there are soooo many....here are just a few though:

With or without You

Through the storm, we reach the shore
You gave it all, but I want more
And I'm waiting for You...


11 O' clock Tick Tock

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong

Acrobat

And you can dream
So dream out loud

In God's Country

Dream beneath a desert sky
Every day the dreamers die to see what's on the other side

Bad

I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
I'm not sleeping

 

[Dismantled]

Until The End of The World
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they'd learned to swim

So Cruel
We're cut adrift, but still floating.
I'm only hanging on to watch you go down, my love.

Desperation is a tender trap
It gets you every time.
You put your lips to her lips
To stop the lie.
Her skin is pale like God's only dove
Screams like an angel for your love
Then she makes you watch her from above
And you need her like a drug

great song

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 heard opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed.

Acrobat
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.

Love is Blindness

A little death without mourning
No call and no warning
Baby, a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense.




after looking at them its hard to choose...there are so many great lines

 

[Dismantled]

more...


Mothers Of the Disappeared
Night hangs like a prisoner
Stretched over black and blue.
Hear their heartbeats
We hear their heartbeats.


pretty song

One Tree Hill

You run like a river on to the sea
You run like a river runs to the sea.

I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill

Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea.

Running to Stand Still

Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth.
I see seven towers, but I only see one way out.
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

 

[LikeNoOneBefore]

Kite

Who's to say where the wind will take you?
Who's to say what it is will break you?
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around?
Don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not good-bye

Beautiful Day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
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

Stay Faraway So Close

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
Baby, is that what it is?

(and the entire song itself)

Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

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
I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
Ohh
You've gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere, baby

(and the rest of the song)

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 a second you turn back
Oh no! Be strong
Ohh 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

(and the rest of the song)

Running To Stand Still

Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers, but I only see one way out
You've gotta cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
You know I took the poison from the poison stream
And I floated out of here singing
"Ha La La La De Day. Ha La La La De Day. Ha La La De Day."

With Or Without You

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I wait without you
With or without you
With or without you
I can't live with or without you
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long? How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?

Miracle Drug

Of science and the human heart, there is no limit
There is no failure here, sweetheart
Just when you quit
I am you and you are mine
Love makes nonsence of space and
Time will disappear
Love and logic keep us here
Reason is on our side
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've had enough of romantic love
I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up
For a miracle drug

Original Of The Species

And you feel like no one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel cuz I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not
Everywhere you go, you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it

City Of Blinding Lights

And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground
Ooooh, Ooooh
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone
And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

One Step Closer

I'm hanging out to dry with my old clothes
Fingers still red with the prick of an old rose
Well a heart that hurts is a heart that beats

Yahweh

The sun is coming out on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean



...I wrote too much.

 

[bombergirl1978]

Yeah, what you said

Except I'd also have Acrobat's

Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see, if you just close your eyes, you can feel the enemy.