The Very Best and Worst U2 Lyric

[Infinity]

Best:

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief, all kill their inspirations, and sing about their grief"

This one from The Fly is definitly the best. There are so many other good ones, so I didn't know which ones to list, so you guys can add to it.

Worst:

"I'll give you everything you want, except the thing that you want"

"Freedom has a scent, like a top of a newborn baby's head"

"Hello, hello, im at a place called Vertigo"

"Oh, you, look, so, beautiful!"

Notice anything about the this last list?...^

 

[Zoots]

BEST:

If you need someone to blame
Throw a rock in the air
You'll hit someone guilty

Between the horses of love and lust
We are trampled underfoot

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

...too damn many to list.

WORST:

You know some places are like your auntie.... WTF??
But there's no place like
Miami, my mammy

(I absolutely love everything about Miami except this bit at the end)

 

[the tourist]

"see the sun rise over her skin
she feels like water in my hand
freeway like a river cuts through this land
into the side of love
like a burning spear
and the poison rain
brings a flood of fear
through the ghostranch hills
death valley waters
in the towers of steel
belief goes on and on."

worst:

"a mole digging in a hole."

 

[Miggy D]

Best:

"Waves of regret, waves of joy/I reached out for the one I tried to destroy" (although this whole song is U2's best lyrically, IMO)

Worst:

"Freedom has a scent/like the top of a newborn baby's head" (It doesn't even rhyme! I know Bono just thought of it one day and decided to stick it in a song somewhere. Damn you Bono...damn you.)

 

[If you shout...]

U2 has a lot of GREAT lyrics...they also have a lot of REALLY shitty lyrics. I am going to limit myself to just one of each.

Best:
"You can't even remember what I'm trying to forget."
--If you've been there, then this line says it all. Fuckin' fantastic.

Worst:
"Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby's head."
--No. It doesn't. And regardless of how this lyrics smells, it sure sounds like shit.

I agree with what people have already posted, though--some really amazing and some really shady lines in here. Good stuff, good calls, good times.

 

[Axver]

Best: All of One Tree Hill and Heartland. The intertwining of Maori mythology and Christian theology in One Tree Hill is incredible and Heartland is pure beauty.

Worst: Big Girls Are Best, and the aforementioned portion of Miami.

 

[Azor]

I just can't understand how you hate that line of Miracle Drug... i think it's great

 

[Zoots]

Worst:

"I'll give you everything you want, except the thing that you want"

"Freedom has a scent, like a top of a newborn baby's head"

"Hello, hello, im at a place called Vertigo"

"Oh, you, look, so, beautiful!"

Notice anything about the this last list?...^

You hate the new album?

 

[Axver]

I just can't understand how you hate that line of Miracle Drug... i think it's great

It's 'cool' to hate that line here, it seems.

 

[Zoots]

It's 'cool' to hate that line here, it seems.

Oh please. It is not cool to hate something that sucks. It's normal.

 

[If you shout...]

Oh please. It is not cool to hate something that sucks. It's normal.

Well-said. I think that there's a reason (a GOOD and perfectly justifiable reason) why so many of us have already mentioned that lyric as a terrible one in this thread and in many others.

 

[the tourist]

It's 'cool' to hate that line here, it seems.

True story.

 

[Axver]

Oh please. It is not cool to hate something that sucks. It's normal.

Actually, it's just your opinion that it sucks. In fact, I remember when Miracle Drug first leaked, a lot of people were quick to praise that line and found it resonated very true with them.

Personally, I have no real feelings either way about the line.

 

[alexvilagosh]

Maybe because its shite.

Until The End Of The World would probably be my favourite song lyrically.

 

[Zoots]

I don't think lines from Achtung Baby even need to be quoted here. It's a no-brainer, the album as a whole is above everything else anyway. I esp. love the poignant lyric 'I dreamed that I saw Dali with a supermarket trolley'.

(waits for you-know-who's response)

 

[the tourist]

The best lyrics are from The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree, not Achtung Baby.

 

[the tourist]

Well, unless you like wittiness better than poetry.

 

[Axver]

<predictable>

Achtung Baby has its lyrical mountains and valleys. It is over-rated and not as good as The Joshua Tree or The Unforgettable Fire.

</predictable>

Happy now, Zootlesque?

 

[Axver]

Well, unless you like wittiness better than poetry.

Poetry of UF and JT ...

 

[the tourist]

Poetry of UF and JT ...

Exactly.

 

[Zoots]

Shit! Axver has a supporter. Help!

 

[the tourist]

Any day of the week I'd take a lyric such as....

"she runs through the streets
with eyes painted red
under a black belly of cloud in the rain
through a doorway she brinds me
white gold and pearls
stolen from the see
she is raging, she is raging
and the storm blows up in her eyes
she will suffer the needle chill
she's running to stand still"

over a lyric such as

"you're the real thing, yeah the real thing
you're the real thing
even better than the real thing"

or!

"it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways"

or!

"baby baby baby light my way."

 

[the tourist]

Shit! Axver has a supporter. Help!

I wouldn't say supporter. I'd say someone who agrees with him on U2's best days (Unforgettable Fire -> Lovetown).

 

[Zoots]

Any day of the week I'd take a lyric such as....

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

To take a cup
To fill it up
To drink it slow
I can't let you go
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

OVER

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

 

[Sken]

Ha! I'd take any JT, UF or AB lyric over any lyrics from Party Girl. Man that has some real shocker lines in that one.

 

[Miggy D]

Any day of the week I'd take a lyric such as....

"she runs through the streets
with eyes painted red
under a black belly of cloud in the rain
through a doorway she brinds me
white gold and pearls
stolen from the see
she is raging, she is raging
and the storm blows up in her eyes
she will suffer the needle chill
she's running to stand still"

over a lyric such as

"you're the real thing, yeah the real thing
you're the real thing
even better than the real thing"

or!

"it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways"

or!

"baby baby baby light my way."

Perhaps you forget:

"You don't know if it's fear or desire
Danger the drug that takes you higher
Head in heaven, fingers in the mire
Her heart is racing, you can't keep up
The night is bleeding like a cut
Between the horses of love and lust
We are trampled underfoot
Oh...love...you say in love there are no rules
Oh...love...sweetheart...
You're so cruel"

Yeah, talk about shite lyrics, right?

-Miggy

 

[Axver]

I'll take 11 O'clock Tick Tock's "We thought that we had the answers; it was the questions we had wrong" over anything on UF, JT, or AB.

OK, so it's my favourite lyric.

 

[Miggy D]

Gone. Period.

 

[Sken]

"you're the real thing, yeah the real thing
you're the real thing
even better than the real thing"


I think he was talking about breasts. So I guess B isnt a fan of implants

 

[lauren430]

"you're the real thing, yeah the real thing
you're the real thing
even better than the real thing"


I think he was talking about breasts. So I guess B isnt a fan of implants