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Gone-

You hurt yourself, you hurt your lover--then you discover
What you thought was freedom was just greed

Like a song-

Angry words won't stop the fight
Two wrongs won't make it right
A new heart is what I need--oh God make it bleed.

Crumbs from your table-

With a mouth full of teeth
You ate all of your friends
And you broke every heart
Thinking every heart mends

Electrical Storm-

You're in my mind
All of the time,
But I know it's not enough.
If the sky can crack,
There must be some way back
For love and only love

Never Let Me Go

Maybe I was blind
Or I, I might have closed my eyes
Maybe I was dumb
But what I forgot to say
If you didn't know
Is never let me go

SuperFlyguy

This first one is personal.

One Tree Hill

I don't believe in painted roses
Or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again
When the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red
Over One Tree Hill

Kite

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

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know
Which way the wind will blow

Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye


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

If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day

wthrwthoutyu

Sunrise like a nosebleed
And your head hurts and you can't breathe

I'm only hanging on to watch you go down, my love

Love is clockworks and cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel

But then, most of Achtung Baby still slays me.

You gotta talk without speaking
Cry without weeping
Scream without raising your voice

Most perfect description of singing I've ever heard.

Purplereign

Last saw your face in a watercolour sky
As sea birds argue, a long goodbye
I took your kiss on the spray of the new land star
You gotta live with your dreams, don’t make them so hard

Hands That Built America

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'You might just as well say, that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'

Mr. V

my god.

reading this thread really reminds you that Bono was on form during the 2000s that so many of us seem to despise.

i mean, "you're in my mind, all of the time, i know that's not enough"? brilliance.

last unicorn

^ Electrical Storm is such a gem of a song, such a dark beauty. It's one of my all time favourite U2 songs and I wouldn't mind hearing more of that kind in the future.

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Purplereign

i don't give a wahhootyfandango what anyone says, b is still such an evocative emotionally adept writer with a passion for language that i still adore

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'You might just as well say, that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'

astepcloser24

Electrical Storm is such an underrated song, but it could've been written a little better. Lines like "the air is heavy, heavy as a truck. We need the rain to wash away our bad luck"... Yuck.

last unicorn

^ True, that line is a bit ackward. The rest of the song is fine, though.

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adypole

'Don't let the bastards grind you down' is VERY powerful.



It's one of my favourite quotes and he hit it in 8 syllables.

kassandra

Besides all of what is written in this thread there is:

Freedom has a scent
Like the top of a new born baby's head.

I remember smelling my babies when they were born, I'll never for get it!

Marien

"Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"

Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checking out
I wanna get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love it won't be long

"One"
All the song is wonderful, but these lines can bring tears to my eyes so easily:

You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got
When all you got is hurt

"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 hurts you, you feel alive
Oh now, is that what it is
.......

And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout, I'll only hear you
If I could stay then the night would give you up
Stay then the day would keep its trust
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay and the night would be enough

If you've ever met a victim of machist violence you'll recognise the protrait here and the helplessness of the friend, relative. Very moving, but sad lines.

"One Step Closer"

I’m on an island at a busy intersection
I can’t go forward, I can’t turn back
Can’t see the future
It’s getting away from me
I just watch the tail lights glowing


"Mothers Of The Disappeared"
Midnight, our sons and daughters
Were cut down and taken from us
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their hearts beat

In the wind we hear their laughter
In the rain we see their tears
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their hearts beat

Night hangs like a prisoner
Stretched over black and blue
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their hearts beat

In the trees our sons stand naked
Through the walls our daughters cry
See their tears in the rainfall

YourBlueRoom09

in my dreams i was drowning my sorrows/but my sorrows they learned to swim

MrBTH

From Stuck In A Moment....

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

And particularly:

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water was warm 'til you discovered how deep
I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
Its a long way down to nothing at all...


Its Just a moment, this time will pass.

Rosebud

Sorry, I can't remember if this has been posted, but I wanted to put in my vote for She's A Mystery to Me. The entire lyric is just transcendently beautiful.

Darkness falls and she will take me by the hand
Take me to some twilight land
Where all but love is grey
Where I can't find my way
Without her as my guide

Night falls I'm cast beneath her spell
Daylight comes our heaven turns to hell
Am I left to burn
and burn eternally
She's a mystery to me

She's a Mystery Girl
She's a Mystery Girl

In the night of love words tangled in her hair
Words soon to disappear
A love so sharp it cut like switchblade to my heart
words tearing me apart
She tears again my bleeding heart
I want to run she's pulling me apart
Fallen angel cries
And I just melt away
She's a mystery to me

She's a Mystery Girl
She's a Mystery Girl
She's a Mystery Girl

Haunted by her side it's the darkness in her eyes
That so enslaves me
But if my love is blind then I don't want to see
She's a mystery to me

Night falls I'm cast beneath her spell
Daylight comes our heaven turns to hell
Am I left to burn
and burn eternally

she's a mystery to me