Tag: U2

”Unos, dos, tres, catorce!”Turn it up, there, captain… Lights go down, it’s darkThe jungle is your headCan’t rule your heartA feeling so much stronger thanA thoughtYour eyes are wideAnd though your soulIt can’t be boughtYour mind can wander Hello, hello!”¡Hola, hola!”I’m at a place called Vertigo!”¿Donde está?”It’s everything I wish I didn’t knowExcept you give… Continue reading Vertigo – U2

If you twist and turn away.It you tear yourself in two again.If I could, yes I wouldIf I could, I would let it go.Surrender, dislocate. If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind.Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk awayInto the night, and through the rainInto the half light and through… Continue reading Bad – U2

Green light, 7-ElevenYou stop in for a pack of cigarettesYou don’t smoke, don’t even want toHey now, check your changeDressed up like a car crashThe wheels are turning but you’re upside downYou say when he hits you you don’t mindBecause when he hurts you you feel aliveOh now, is that what it is Red light,… Continue reading Stay (Faraway, So Close!) – U2

I’m not afraid of anything in this worldThere’s nothing you can throw at me that I haven’t already heardI’m just trying to find a decent melodyA song that I can sing in my own company I never thought you were a foolBut darling, look at youYou gotta stand up straight, carry your own weightThese tears… Continue reading Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of – U2

In the howlin’ windComes a stingin’ rainSee it drivin’ nailsInto the souls on the tree of pain. From the fireflyA red orange glowSee the face of fearRunnin’ scared in the valley below. Bullet the blue skyBullet the blue skyBullet the blueBullet the blue. In the locust windComes a rattle and hum.Jacob wrestled the angelAnd the… Continue reading Bullet the Blue Sky – U2

Calling, calling the sun is burning blackCalling, calling, it’s beating on my backWith a fireWith a fire. Calling, calling, the moon is running redCalling, calling, it’s pulling me insteadWith a fire, fire. But there’s a fire insideAnd I’m falling overThere’s a fire in meWhen I call outYou built a fire, fireI’m going home. Calling, calling,… Continue reading Fire – U2

It’s falling, it’s fallingAnd outside a building comes tumbling down.And inside a child on the groundSays he’ll do it again. And what am I to do?What in the world am I to say?There’s nothing else to do.He says he’ll change the world some dayI rejoice. This morning I fell out of bedWhen I woke up… Continue reading Rejoice – U2

You don’t know how you took itYou just know what you gotOh Lawdy, you been stealing from the thievesAnd you got caughtIn the headlights of a stretch car,You’re a star Dressing like your sisterLiving like a tartIf they don’t know what you’re doin’Babe it must be art,You’re a headache, in a suitcaseYou’re a star Oh,… Continue reading Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me – U2

Yeah Lover, I’m on the streetGonna go where the bright lightsAnd the big city meetWith a red guitar…on fireDesire She’s a candle burning in my roomYeah I’m like the needle, needle and spoonOver the counter with a shotgunPretty soon everybody got oneAnd the fever when I’m beside herDesire, desire… And the fever…getting higherDesire, desire…burning, burning… Continue reading Desire – U2

October and the trees are stripped bareOf all they wear.What do I care? October and kingdoms riseAnd kingdoms fallBut you go onAnd on.