The Joshua Tree



  1. Where The Streets Have No Name
  2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  3. With Or Without You
  4. Bullet The Blue Sky
  5. Running To Stand Still
  6. Red Hill Mining Town
  7. In God's Country
  8. Trip Through Your Wires
  9. One Tree Hill
  10. Exit
  11. Mothers Of The Disappeared

 

 

 

 

 

Where The Streets Have No Name

    I want to run
    I want to hide
    I want to tear down the walls
    That hold me inside
    I want to reach out
    And touch the flame
    Where the streets have no name
    
    I want to feel, sunlight on my face
    See that dust cloud disappear without a trace
    I want to take shelter from the poison rain
    Where the streets have no name
    
    Where the streets have no name
    Where the streets have no name
    We're still building
    Then burning down love, burning down love
    And when I go there
    I go there with you...
    (It's all I can do)
    
    The cities a flood
    And our love turns to rust
    We're beaten and blown by the wind
    Trampled into dust
    I'll show you a place
    High on ta desert plain
    Where the streets have no name
    
    Where the streets have no name
    Where the streets have no name
    Still building
    Then burning down love
    Burning down love
    And when I go there
    I go there with you
    (It's all I can do)

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

    I have climbed the highest mountains
    I have run through the fields
    Only to be with you
    Only to be with you
    
    I have run I have crawled
    I have scaled these city walls
    Only to be with you
    But I still haven't found
    What I'm looking for
    But I still haven't found
    What I'm looking for
    
    I have kissed honey lips
    Felt the healing in her fingertips
    It burned like fire
    This burning desire
    I have spoke with the tongue of angels
    I have held the hand of a devil
    It was warm in the night
    I was cold as a stone
    But I still haven't found
    What I'm looking for
    But I still haven't found
    What I'm looking for
    
    I believe in the Kingdom Come
    Then all the colors will bleed into one
    But yes I'm still running.
    You broke the bonds
    You loosened the chains
    You carried the cross
    And my shame
    And my shame
    You know I believed it
    But I still haven't found
    What I'm looking for
    But I still haven't found
    What I'm looking for

With Or Without You

    See the stone set in your eyes
    See the thorn twist in your side
    I wait for you
    Sleight of hand and twist of fate
    On a bed of nails she makes me wait
    And I wait....without you
    
    With or without you
    With or without you
    
    Through the storm we reach the shore
    You give it all but I want more
    And I'm waiting for you
    
    With or without you
    With or without you
    I can't live
    With or without you
    
    And you give yourself away
    And you give yourself away
    And you give
    And you give
    And you give yourself away
    
    My hands are tied
    My body bruised, she's got me with
    Nothing left to win
    And nothing else to lose
    
    With or without you
    With or without you
    I can't live
    With or without you

Bullet The Blue Sky

    In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
    See it driving nails into souls on the tree of pain
    From the firefly, a red orange glow
    See the face of fear running scared in the valley below
    
    Bullet the blue sky
    Bullet the blue sky
    Bullet the blue
    Bullet the blue
    
    In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
    Jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome
    Plant a demon seed, you raise a flower of fire
    See them burning crosses, see the flames, higher and higher
    
    Bullet the blue sky
    Bullet the blue sky
    Bullet the blue
    Bullet the blue
    
    This guy comes up to me
    His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
    Like all the colors of a royal flush
    And he's peeling off those dollar bills
    Slapping them down
    One hundred, two hundred
    And I can see those fighter planes
    And I can see those fighter planes
    Across the mud huts where the children sleep
    Through the alleys of a quiet city street
    Take the staircase to the first floor
    Turn the key and slowly unlock the door
    As a man breathes into a saxophone
    Through the walls we hear the city groan
    Outside it's America
    Outside it's America
    
    Across the field you see the sky ripped open
    See the rain come through the gaping wound
    Pounding on the women and children who run into the arms of America

Running To Stand Still

    And so she woke up
    From where she was lying still
    Said we got to do something about where we're going
    Step on a steam train
    Step out of the driving train
    Maybe run from the darkness in the night
    Singing Ha La La La De Day
    Singing Ha La La La De Day
    Sweet the sin
    But the bitter taste in my mouth
    I see seven towers
    But I only see one way out
    You got to cry without weeping
    Talk without speaking
    Scream without raising your voice, you know
    I took the poison, from the poison stream,
    Then I floated out of here
    Singing Ha La La La De Day
    Singing Ha La La La De Day
    She runs through the streets
    With her eyes painted red
    Under black belly of cloud in the rain
    In through a doorway she brings me
    White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
    She is raging
    She is raging and the storm blows up in her eyes
    She will suffer the needle chill
    She is running to stand still

Red Hill Mining Town

    From Father to Son
    The blood runs thin
    Our faces frozen (still) against the wind
    The seam is split
    The coal face cracked
    The lines are long
    And there's no going back
    Through hands of steel
    And a heart of stone
    Our labor day has come and gone
    And you leave us holding on
    In Red Hill Town
    As the lights go down
    I'm hanging on
    You're all that's left to hang on to
    I'm holding on
    You're all that's left to hang on to
    
    The glass is cut
    The bottle runs dry
    Our love runs cold
    In the caverns of the night
    We're wounded by fear
    Injured in doubt
    I can lose myself
    I'm holding on
    You're all that's left to hold on to
    
    And we scorch the earth
    Set fire to the sky
    Stoop so low to reach so high
    A link is lost
    The chain undone
    Now we wait all day
    For the night to come
    And it comes
    And it comes
    Like a hunter (child)
    I'm hanging on
    You're all that's left to hang on to
    I'm hanging on to
    You're all that's left to hang on to
    We see love slowly stripped away
    Our love, has seen a better day
    I'm hanging on
    You're all that's left to hold on to
    I'm holding on
    You're all that's left to hold on to
    See the lights go down on Red Hill Town
    See lights go down on Red Hill Town

In God's Country

    Desert sky
    Dream beneath a desert sky
    The rivers run
    But soon run dry
    We need new dreams tonight
    Desert rose
    Dreamed I saw a desert rose
    Dress torn in ribbons
    And in bows
    Like a siren she calls (to me)
    Sleep comes like a drug...In God's Country
    Sad eyes crooked crosses...In God's Country
    Set me alight
    We'll punch a hole right through the night
    Everyday the dreamers die
    She is Liberty
    And she comes to rescue me
    Hope, faith, her vanity
    The greatest gift is gold
    Sleep comes like a drug...In God's Country
    Sad eyes crooked crosses...In God's Country
    
    Naked flame
    She stands with a naked flame
    I stand with the sons of Cain
    Burned by the fire of love
    Burned by the fire of love

Trip Through Your Wires

    In the distance
    She saw me coming
    I was calling out
    I was calling out
    
    Still shaking
    Still in pain
    Angel or devil
    I was thirsty
    And you wet my lips
    
    You, I'm waiting for you
    You, you set my desire
    I trip through your wires
    
    I was broken, bent out of shape
    I was naked in the clothes you made
    My lips were dry, throat like rust
    You gave me shelter
    From the heat and the dust
    There's no more water in the well
    No more water in the well
    
    Angel or devil
    I was thirsty and you wet my lips
    
    You, I'm waiting for you
    You, You set my desire
    
    I trip through your wires
    Thunder, thunder on the mountain
    There's a rain cloud in the desert sky
    In the distance you saw me coming
    I was calling out
    I was calling out

One Tree Hill

    We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill
    As the day begs the night for mercy
    Your sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scars
    Carved into stone on the face of earth
    The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
    We see the sun go down in your eyes
    You ran like river to the sea
    Like a river to the sea
    And in our world a heart of darkness, a firezone
    Where poets speak their hearts, then bleed for it
    Jara sang, his song a weapon, in the hands of love
    You know his blood still cries from the ground
    It runs like a river to the sea
    Like a river to the sea
    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
    We run like a river to the sea
    Like a river to the sea

Exit

    You know he got the cure...but then he went astray,
    He used to stay awake
    To drive the dreams he had away
    He wanted to believe
    In the hands of love...
    
    His head it felt heavy
    As he cut across the land
    He went deeper into black
    Deeper into white...he could see
    The stars shine
    Like nails in the night
    He felt the healing
    Healing, healing, healing
    Hands of love
    Like the stars shiny, shiny...
    From above.
    
    He put his hands in the pocket
    His finger on the steel
    The pistol weighed heavy
    His heart he could feel
    Was beating, beating
    Beating, beating oh my love
    Oh my love, oh my love
    Oh my love.
    
    He saw the hands that build
    Could also pull down....
    The hands of love.

Mothers Of The Disappeared

    Midnight, our sons and daughters
    Were cut down and taken from us
    Hear their heartbeat...
    We hear their heartbeat
    In the wind
    We hear their laughter
    In the rain
    We see their tears
    Hear their heartbeat...
    We hear their heartbeat
    Night hangs like a prisoner
    Stretched over black and blue
    Hear their heartbeat...
    We hear their heartbeat
    In the trees
    Our sons stand naked
    Through the walls
    Our daughters cry
    See their tears in the rainfall

 

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