Single Greatest Line Of Any U2 Song

[INSTCUWSUMVC]

I think it is ....."The Citys a flood and our love turns to rust."

 

[chocky]

Not necessary a brilliant lyric but I always get chills with this line from "Gone":

'Goodbye...And it's emotional
Good night...I'll be up with the sun'

 

[U2isthebest]

"What you thought was freedom is just greed." also from 'Gone'. It's nearly impossible to choose though.

 

[lazarus]

Man melts the sand so he can see the world outside

or

He turns his money into light to look for her


Bono at his conceptual best.

 

[nathan1977]

So we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage

 

[intedomine]

Too hard. Not a line, but amazing passages:


THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE

"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"

HEARTLAND

"Mississippi and the cotton wool heat
Sixty-six a highway speaks
Of deserts dry
Of cool green valleys
Gold and silver veins
Of the shining cities"


LINE:

IN GOD"S COUNTRY

We'll punch a hole right through the night



MOFO

Holy dunc, spacejunk coming in for the splash

 

[hughfan_1]

The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground

 

[EdgeIsTooSexy]

Every poet is a thief

actualy thats quite hard bono is a great writer

 

[Slapnutz]

Closer than ever to everybody's wife

 

[Utoo]

Funny, I was actually thinking about starting a thread like this the last few days & kept forgetting!

I have a few that I like....will probably add more later (can't do "single greatest" )

I can lose myself, you I can't live without.

I'm only hanging on
To watch you go down
My love ---- (the kicker is the "my love" tacked onto the end of those sour lines) and most of So Cruel

There's a silence that comes to a house where no one can sleep

 

[u2trinity]

I've always loved the line
"on a bed of nails she make's me wait ".

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

"We need new dreams tonight."

 

[Axver]

"Boom-cha!"

Or maybe "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

 

[U2isthebest]

"Boom-cha!"

Or maybe "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

Axver's favorite lyrics are are those of "One".

Everybody knows that.

 

[kafrun]

Or maybe "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

FTW

So inspiring.. I think I'll get it tattooed on me somewhere

 

[kingofsorrow]

"I'm 'round the corner from anything that's real"

"Finger still red with the prick of an old rose"

 

[flybabe]

I think i is "We thought we had the answers,it was the questions we got wrong"

 

[mofo82]

Every poet is a thief

actualy thats quite hard bono is a great writer

I would go further...

"Every artist is a cannibal
Every poet is a thief
All kill their inspiration
And sing about the grief"

I also love:
"Midnight is where the day begins" Lemon
and
"A work that's never done,
Father to Son" Dirty Day

Reminds me of my dad, all the nights he goes to work to drive locomotives/trains, and has been doing it for 45 years. I have that same night bug he does and I'm going to start driving long distances at all hours for a new job. I never intended to follow his style of work ethic but somehow it's grown in me. This is the best part of rediscovering some of those lyrics, when life imitates the art imitating life

 

[BVS]

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

 

[Zoots]

I'm only hanging on
To watch you go down
My love ---- (the kicker is the "my love" tacked onto the end of those sour lines) and most of So Cruel

There are sooo many but that one's a gem right there!

 

[zuropa_fit]

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

That's a great one.

"Love, lift me up out of these blues. Won't you tell me something true. I believe in you." It's not so much the words theselves but the 'moment' in that song.

"Dressed up like a car crash"

"Some days are sulky, some days have a grin, some days are bouncers that won't let you in." AMEN!


"Take this mouth, so quick to criticize... and give it a kiss"

"If the thundercloud passes rain, so let it rain"

SOOOOOO many good ones...

 

[No spoken words]

I always liked "and we stoop so low, to reach so high"

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

These are probably not "great" lines, per se, but, the former means something to me and the latter always gives me the chills.

Due to my screen name and sig, I'll not reference "A Sort of Homecoming"

 

[bgmckinney]

We're binary code
A one and a zero
You wanted violins
And you got Nero
You're gravity searching for the ground
You're silence searching for a sound

 

[bgmckinney]

Oh, and...

If you're hunger
Baby let me feed it
If your heart is full
Baby let me bleed it
And happiness is for those who don't really need it

 

[Lila64]

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

These are probably not "great" lines, per se, but always gives me the chills.

 

[discothequeLP]

Man melts the sand so he can see the world outside

or

He turns his money into light to look for her


Bono at his conceptual best.

i second this!

 

[Axver]

Axver's favorite lyrics are are those of "One".

Everybody knows that.

Oh yeah, I'm so down with the cliches; I love those lyrics.

No, seriously, some of these lines are great:

"I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bullets rape the night of the merciful" - One Tree Hill

"We thought that we had the answers; it was the questions we had wrong" - 11 O'clock Tick Tock

"What you thought was freedom is just greed" - Gone

"And you know it's time to go through the sleet and driving snow, across the fields of mourning, lights in the distance" - A Sort Of Homecoming

Pretty much all of Heartland ...

 

[major_panic]

Clearly "shake it shake it shake it Salome!" is one of his best. As is "I was a monkey stealing honey from a swarm of bees".



More seriously, I think all of Gone is brilliant, as is

"I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone, anything at all"

from Kite. I also somehow love this part of 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.

 

[Hallucination]

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief.
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief"

Perhaps more than one line but thats' the best lyrics Bono/U2 have ever written in my opinion.

 

[gman]

There are many.....but the one (no pun intended) that hits out at me is....

we're one, but we're not the same, we got to carry each other, carry each other...

Another great line, which I would love on my gravestone is....

I ll see you again when the stars fall from the sky
and the moon has turned red over one tree hill