U2's Most Well Written Song

[DevilsShoes]

Is there a set of lyrics which cannot be improved upon? Where every line and every sentence has been perfectly judged by Bono. Which song do you think is the best written, the one which contains the most inspired, most thought-provoking, and most emotional lyrics. One? Stay? Acrobat?
Over to you.

 

[jacobus]

Acrobat, So Cruel, Gone

 

[xaviMF22]

Stay

One

Lemon

 

[coolian2]

Stay
Stay
Stay
One Tree Hill

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

Miami
Grace
Somdays are better than others
The playboy mansion

 

[Bug]

Miami
Grace
Somdays are better than others
The playboy mansion

 

[An Cat Gav]

Lyrically, Stay and A Sort of Homecoming spring to mind, One Tree Hill too.

 

[Ellay]

Please is one of my favourites

 

[An Cat Gav]

The Unforgettable Fire is musically perfect, though I guess even Sherlock Holmes would have a hard time working out what the song was about through reading the lyrics
One of my all time faves.

 

[intedomine]

Please

A Sort Of Homecoming

New Years Day

Mysterious Ways

 

[JCOSTER]

Stay
A Sort of Homecoming
Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

[ahittle]

Stay
Love is Blindness
Heartland

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

Bad
Acrobat
One
Exit

 

[Liesje]

Promenade
Running to Stand Still
Stay
Original of the Species
One Tree Hill

 

[waynetravis]

Acrobat
Gone
Love is Blindness
Window in the Skies
One Tree Hill
Original of the Species
I Still Haven't Found

 

[God Part III]

Acrobat

Mofo

Stay

Mainly 90's stuff, funnily enough.

 

[blm]

YAHWEH Lyrics-beautiful Music- Ethereal
ONE Gorgeous and deep
Still Haven't Found Profound
Walk On
Stay
Sort of Homecoming
Unforgettable Fire Stops me in my tracks-musically for sure
WOWY Achingly awesome-raw emotion

aw, it is impossible to pick just one or two or ten!!!

 

[DevilsShoes]

There's not much stuff from the 00's here is there? But some interested choices anyway, I too really like Gone, Love Is Blindness and Heartland has some very evocative imagery. I think from about the mid eighties to all the way through the nineties Bono wrote some really good stuff, really clever lyrics, really thought-provoking, the Pop album on the whole is pretty strong as far as lyrics are concerned, Mofo, SATS, Gone, Playboy Mansion, Please, Wake Up Dead Man. In the 00's by contrast alot of his stuff seems more simplistic, and I think he's done it to suit the more stripped down feel that U2 has right now.

 

[The Disciple]

I would have 2 say probably Stay...

 

[Muminki]

Stay and So Cruel

 

[beegee]

A Sort Of Homecoming
Unforgettable Fire
Wire
In God's Country
Miss Sarajevo
Silver and Gold

 

[Screwtape2]

Walk To The Water

 

[MaxFisher]

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Until the End of the World

Pride - (the quintessential U2 song in my opinion, both lyrically and musically).

 

[fear_nothing]

In a Little While
City of Blinding Lights
With our Without You
Yahweh
Acrobat
and I don't care what anyone says...Mercy

 

[U2girl]

Pride
WOWY
Streets
I still haven't found what I'm looking for
One
COBL (crazy underrated, and the only one worthy of "classic" status in the last 6 years)

 

[craigp]

4th of july & bass trap

 

[vRS]

One
Streets
Yahweh
Walk On
Please

 

[gherman]

The whole Achtung Baby album

 

[silvrlvr]

One Tree Hill
Kite
In a Little While
Streets

One that does not work is Electrical Storm, which is impossible to sing for anyone but Bono on a good day.

 

[dsmith2904]

"One"
"All I Want Is You"