Various lyrics
- Boy-Girl
- Another Day
- Touch
- A Celebration
- Treasure (Whatever happened to Pete the Chop)
- Boomerang II
- Silver and Gold
- Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)
- Walk to the Water
- Spanish Eyes
- Deep in the Heart
- The Sweetest Thing
- Hallelujah (Here She Comes)
- A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
- Night and day
- Christmas (baby please come home)
- She's a Mystery to Me
- In a lifetime (Bono with Clannad)
- Slide away (Bono with Michael Hutchence)
- Slow dancing
- Holy Joe
- Summer Rain
- Always
- Big girls are best
- Electrical Storm
Boy-girl, boy-girl When a boy meets a girl Boy-girl Finding out I'm finding out the things That I've been talking about I'm finding all the things that loose My mind sometimes fall behind You and I reelin' on the big ship And time goes by You make up and I believe a lady's lie The skinheads call it 'strawberries and cream' Sometimes 'icecream' Boy-girl, boy-girl When a boy meets a girl Boy-girl We go out A picture or a disco or a roundabout I walk you home, I hold you there You're giving out I open doors so I can shut your face Know your place Boy-girl, boy-girl When a boy meets a girl Boy-girl You can take me in your hands Stand by dreamswheel Come on, up and down and all around You will sideways view the ground Boy-girl......
Wake up The toll of another dull day Shake up Your dreams head on your way Oh oh ooh Daylight Mother stands in the hall Last night Head against the wall Oh oh ooh When night turns to day And the children come out to play Another day Stop, shake out They came my way Oh oh ooh Boy salute in a street uniform Toy Soldier ripped and torn Oh oh ooh When night turns to day And the children come out to play Another day Stop, shout They came my way Oh oh ooh
Thank you, you don't mention it Pleased to meet you I don't think I'm very good at this let me show I just wanna know, I just wanna know F-f-falling, the world is by your side C-c-calling to find a place to hide I just wanna know, I just wanna know T-t-touching you, t-t-touching you... She said the twenty-second floor I said I can't think what's that for And I just wanna know, I just wanna know T-t-touching you, t-t-touching you...
Shake], Shake] Don't go I believe in a celebration I believe in setting me free I believe you can loose this chains I believe you can dance with me Shake] Shake] I believe in the third world war I believe in the atomic bomb I believe in the powers that be But they won't overpower me And, and you can go there too And, and you can go go go go Shake] Shake] Shake] Shake] And we don't have the time And everything goes round and round And we don't have the time To watch the world go tumbling down Shake] Shake] GO] GO] I believe in the bells of Christ Church Ringing for this land I believe in the bells of Mountjoy Doesn't understand And, and you can go there too and, and you can go go go go I believe in the walls of Jericho I believe they're coming down I belive in this city's children I believe the trumpet's sound
Treasure (Whatever happened to Pete the Chop)
I like to smile But I like mostly to stay with you I like good times But I can't feel this without you By my song The heart is in the place I sing this song Probably so If I could sigh I'd tell the world I'd felt with you I like good times I like the feeling when I feel you in my arms I'll let you go Somebody save me Somebody saved me Sing it Sing my, sing my song We sing the same old song Smile, though your heart breaks in two Touch me, wen will I be with you? I like good times But I can feel it's going wrong You sing the same old song Now I think it's time to get it wright If I could swim, I'd swim in circles If I could drown, I'd drown with you If I had enough of my life I can't tell If I had enough of you
Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Blow by blow Under her skin I feel her laughing Under her nails a piece of me Under her weight I feel weightless Under her sheets a friend and enemy Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Blow by blow In the drift we come In the drift we go... Under her wings I feel I'm flying Under her breath I hear my name Under her spell I'm going under Under her eyes... I disappear Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Blow by blow You blow me away, blow me away In the drift we come In the drift we go... In the drift we come In the drift we go... Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Soul wind blow Blow by blow Under her roof I feel shelter Under her hands I feel as clay Under her weight I feel weightless Under her clock time goes away
In the shit house, a shotgun Praying hands hold me down If only the hunter was hunted In this tin can town No stars in the black night Looks like the sky fall down No sun in the daylight Looks like it's chained to the ground Broken back to the ceiling Broken nose to the floor I scream at the silence That crawl under the door That crawl under the floor The warden says The exit is sold If you want a way out Silver and Gold - Silver and Gold There's a rope around my neck There's a trigger in your gun Jesus - say something I am someone I see them coming and going The captains and the kings The navy blue uniforms Their bright and shiny things Yes, captains and kings in the slave ship hold They came to collect Silver and Gold - Silver and Gold The temperature is rising The fever white hot Mister I ain't got nothing But it's more than you got These chains no longer bind me Not the shackles at my feet Outside are the prisoners Inside the free, set them free Prize fighter in a corner is told Hit where it hurts Silver and Gold - Silver and Gold You can stop the world from turning around You just got to pay a penny in the pound
Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)
Hey sister love, hey sister soul Hey oh my love It's only right to love Hey sister love Save my soul, save my soul Hold on to love, hold on to love Love won't let you go Hold on to love See the sunshine in her soul Hey sister love, seems so bright She comes like carnival She is the big wheel She turned my head around Turned my head around She is thespeedway She is the slipstream She is coming 'round Hold on to love, hold on to love Love won't let you go Hold on to love, hold on to love She the sunlight in her soul See the sunlight in her soul She's the gun fire She's the car crash She's the avalanche She's the thunder She's the wind waves And she pulls me under I love you 'cause I need to Not because I need you I love you 'cause I understand That God has given me your hand He hold me in a tiny fist And still I need your kiss Hold on to love
She said it wasn't cold She left her coat at home She wore canvas shoes Around her neck she wore a silver necklace 'It was given to me by my father' she said 'It was given me' She took the backway home Passed the lights and the summer hill Turned left on to the norths strand And on... and towards the sea He said he was an artist But the really painted billboards In large capital letters In large capital letters He was telling jokes Nobody else would listen to him I saw you that day, your lips were cherry red Your legs were crossed, your arms wide open Your hair was coloured gold Like a field of corn You were blown by the wind Blown by the wind Walk, walk, walk to the water Walk with me a while Walk, walk, walk to the water Walk me in the light A room in the wild town She facing views A man with a suitcase Full of things he doesn't need I'm looking through your window I'm looking through your doorway I'm on the outside, let me in Let me love you Let me love you Let me Walk, walk, walk to the water Walk with me a while Walk, walk, walk to the roadside Walk with me a while
Wey hey hey, baby hang on Wey hey hey, baby hang on Empty heart, beat tight as a drum Stick empty love, she'll shine like a song wey hey hey, baby hang on Our love shatters my brain With those spanish eyes Spanish eyes Across the world for green and gold It's those spanish eyes that get me home Home again Hey baby hang on Wey hey hey, baby hang on 'Cause I love the way you talk to me And I love the way you mean to me And I need you Wey hey hey, here she comes Comes in colours, know she's gonna turn the daylight on 'Cause I love the way you talk to me, and I love the way you walk to me And I need you more than you need me, yeah Our love shines like rain in those spanish eyes Wey hey hey, you know that the night is young Dazzled by lights that shine in your eyes I'm standing in the shadows to wait for the night Forever in fever, forever in heat You pick me up to put me out on the street Wey hey hey, baby hang on 'Cause I love the way you talk to me And I love the way you mean to me And I need you
Angel everything's gonna be alright Angel everything's gonna work out tonight Thirteen years old sweet as rose Every petal of her wafer thin Love will make you mine creep up from behind Get you jumping out of your skin Angel it's sink or swim Deep in the heart, deep in the heart of this place Deep in the heart, deep in the heart of this place Door is closed behind me now Windows sealed to shut out the light Grey as the leaves and the cure of the mealows stain It'll work, it'll work out alright Deep in the heart, deep in the heart of this place Deep in the heart. deep in the heart of this place The scent of cedar, I can still see her You can't return to the place you never left Angel we'll make it work out tonight Angel I wanna be home tonight
My love she throws me like a rubber ball Oh oh oh the sweetest thing But she won't catch me, or break my fall Oh oh oh the sweetest thing Baby's got blu skies overhead But in this I'm a raincloud You know she likes a dry kind of love Oh oh oh the sweetest thing I'm losing you Oh oh oh, I'm losing you yeah Ain't love the sweetest thing The sweetset thing I wanted to run, she made me crawl Oh oh oh the sweetest thing Eternal fire, she turned me to straw Oh oh oh the sweetest thing You know I got black eyes Buy they burn so brightly for her Mine is a blind kind of love Oh oh oh the sweetest thing I'm losing you....¨ Blue eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl Oh oh oh the sweetest thing You can sew it up But you still see the tear Oh oh oh the sweetest thing Baby's got blue skies overhead But in this I'm a raincloud You know we got a stormy kind of love Oh oh oh the sweetest thing
I see you dressed to kill I know I can't wait until Hallelujah, here she comes I see you dressed in black I guess I'm not coming back Hallelujah, here she comes Born and raised On the wrong side of town You get so high That you can't come down I'm going higher When that light's gonna shine I'm gonna be there When her heart kindles next to mine I'm gonna be Here she comes Yeah here she comes Born and raised On the wrong side of town You get so high That you can't come down I see the road is rough You know I'm not giving up Hallelujah, here she comes I know where the lady goes I know she got rings on her toes Hallelujah, here she comes
A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
From where I stand I can see thrugh you From where you're sitting, pretty one I know it got to you I see the stars in your eyes You want the truth, but you need the lies Like Judy Garland, like Valentino You give your life for rock n' roll Stand, we're on a landslide of love You got everything you want But what you need you give away For primitive love, and a ride on the mistery train A primitive love A room at the Heart, Heartbreak Hotel A room at the Heartbreak, Heartbreak Hotel You say it's love, it's not the money You let them suck your life out like money Turning tricks, you're on the street Selling your kisses so bittersweet For primitive love, and a ride on the mistery train A primitive love A room at the Heart, Heartbreak Hotel
(a Cole Porter song covered by U2 on the "Red, Hot, & Blue" charity tribute album) With the beat, beat, beat, of the tom tom: When the jungles shadows fall, Like the tick, tick, tock, of the stately clock, as it standing against the wall. Like the drip, drip, drip, of the raindrops, When the summers shower is through; So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you. Night and day you are the one Only you beneath the moon and under the sun Whether near to me or far it's no matter baby where you are I think of you night and day Day and night Why is it so That this longing for you Follows wherever I go In the roaring traffic boom In the silence of my lonely room I think of you Night and Day Night and Day Under the hide of me Oh, such a hungry yearning Burning inside of me And it's torment won't be through Til you let me spend my life Making love to you Day and night Night and day Ooohh, Night and Day Night and Day Under the hide of me Oh, such a hungry yearning Burning, burning inside of me And it's torment won't be through Til you let me spend my life Making love to you Day and night Night and day Night and day Night and day Night and day Night night night and day Night night night and day Night and day Night Night and day
Christmas (baby please come home)
(It's Christmas ... baby, please come home) The snow's comin' down (Christmas) I'm watchin' it fall (Christmas) Lots of people around (Christmas) Baby, please come home The church bells in town (Christmas) They're ringin' a song (Christmas) What a happy sound (Christmas) Baby, please come home CHORUS: They're singin' 'Deck the Halls' But it's not like Christmas at all I remember when you were here And all the fun we had last year Pretty lights on the tree (Christmas) I'm watchin' 'em shine (Christmas) You should be here with me (Christmas) Baby, please come home Baby, please come home Baby, please come home CHORUS If there was a way (Christmas) I'd hold back these tears (Christmas) But it's Christmas day (Christmas) Baby, please come home Baby, please come home Baby, please come home
(from Roy Orbison's "mystery Girl") Words: Bono Music: Bono & Edge Darkness fall and she will take me by the hand Take me to some twilight land Where all but love is grey Where time just slips away Without her as my guide Night falls I'm cast beneath her spell Daylight comes our heaven turns to hell I'm 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 cuts like switchblade to my heart Words tearing me apart She tears against my bleeding heart I want to run, she's pulling me apart Fallen angel cries Then 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
(Bono with Clannad) hard to tell or recognise a sign to see me through a warning sign first the thunder satisfied, if the past it will not lie then the storm torn assunder the future you and I get blown away in the storm in a lifetime and as the rain it falls begin again, as the storm breaks through heavy in my heart believe the light in you so the light shines in you without color, faded and worn torn asunder in the storm unless the sound has faded from your soul unless it disappears first the thunder selfish storm then the storm hold on the inside torn asunder one life in the storm in a lifetime in a lifetime
(Bono with Michael Hutchence, from Hutchence's posthumous solo album released in late 1999) I wanted to let it go I just couldn't let it go I wanted to let it go I just couldn't let you go I would catch you I'd catch you as you fall I would catch you I'd catch you if I heard your call But you tore a hole in space like a dark star falls from grace You burn across the sky and I'd find you wings to fly And I would catch you And I would catch your fall I just want to slide away and come alive again I just want to slide away and come alive again I will see that love again and find that life again I just want to slide away and come alive again
My love is cruel as the night she steals the sun and shuts out the light all of my colors, they turn to blue win or lose She does it slow dancing ... all night long Scarlet eyes and a see-through heart she saw me coming right from the start she picked me up, but had me down on my knees just a-begging her, begging her please Take me slow dancing ... she took me slow dancing ... all night long And I don't know why a man searches for himself in his lover's eyes no, i don't know why a man sees the truth but believes the lies My love is restless as the wind she moves like a shadow across my skin she left with my conscience -- don't want it back it just gets in the way If you wanna go slow dancing ... she took me slow dancing ... all night long ... slow
I'm a humble guy no really I try you know it's hard sometimes true...and hard working too working...to get to see you come on....be good to me come on....be good to me here it comes here it comes holy joe please..don't make me say please to champagne and ice-cream it's not what I want, it's what I need precocious...just a little precocious expialidocious...yeah yeah yeah devotion....and some appreciation a little heavy rotation looks good on me you know it's not hard I can think of a lot harder...oh yeah just wanted our moment to last a little longer...yeah come on....be good to me come on....be good to me here it comes here it comes holy joe having the best time of anybody's life closer than ever to everybody's wife...oh yeah come on....be good to me come on....be good to me here it comes here it comes holy joe
(B-side "Beautiful Day" single) When you stop seeing beauty You start growing old The lines on your face Are a map to your soul When you stop taking chances You stay where you sit You won't live any longer But it'll feel like it I lost myself in the summer rain, I lost myself I lost myself in the summer rain In the summer rain To keep it honest To make it the most At the ??? Honey on my tongue In a small boat on a generous sea Let me be your enemy A tiny hand With a grip on the world Holding our breath now diving for pearls I lost myself in the summer rain, I lost myself I lost myself in the summer rain Just as you find me always I will be A little bit too free with myself I lost myself in the summer rain, I lost myself Now there's no one else in the summer rain Raining down It's raining down It's rain Raining now Raining now Just as you find me always I will be A little bit too free with myself It's not why you're running It's where you're going It's not what you're dreaming But what you're gonna do It's not where you're born It's where you belong It's not how weak But what will make you strong
(B-side "Beautiful Day" single) Here today, gone tomorrow Crack the bone, get to the marrow To be a bee and a flower Before the sweetness turns to sour What we have we're gonna keep (Always) What we've lost we don't need (Always) What is it that won't let you sleep (Always) Be the arrow and the target Put your head over the parapet Be uncool, yes be awkward Don't look in the obvious place The soul needs beauty for a soulmate Get down off your holy cloud (Always) God will not deal with the proud (Always) And if you dream then dream out loud (Always) Eternally yours (Always) I want you I want you I want you ?????? ?????? Don't find yourself in someone else (Always) And always wear a safety belt (Always) Wait for me I'm running late (Always) This is the moment that we share for always (Always) Turn each song into a prayer (Always) Now and forever, for always For always (Always) For always (Always)
(B-side "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" single) As long as the night is colored blue and black Oh yeah, yeah, yeah As long as you're on your knees and she's not on her back Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Avenue Atlantico, 1702 She's cold, cold color Baby she's the glue She's got the baby at her breast She knows big girls are best I'm gonna change like the weather hot to cold Oh yeah, yeah, yeah She keeps it all together she's got the motherlode Oh yeah, yeah, yeah She feels it - every sensation She's got a smile like salvation She's got a baby at her breast She knows big girls are best Sexy momma, momma, momma Sexy momma, momma, momma ??? political Also spiritual, not superficial Yeah, she's tropical Yes, she's logical Those little girls are a pest Big girls are the best As long as the night is colored blue and black Oh yeah, yeah, yeah As long as you're on your knees and she's not on her back Oh yeah, yeah, yeah She can taste every sensation She's got a smile like salvation She's got a baby, a baby at her breast She walk like she talk Big girls are best Big girl, momma, momma, momma Sexy momma, momma, momma Sexy momma, momma, momma My momma
The sea it swells like a sore head and the night it is aching Two lovers lie with no sheets on their bed and the day it is breaking On rainy days we go swimming out on rainy days, swimming in the sound On rainy days we go swimming out You're in my mind all of the time I know that's not enough if the sky can crack there must be some way back for love and only love Car alarm won't let you back to sleep you kept awake dreaming someone else's dream coffee is cold, but it will get you through compromise, there's nothing new to you let's see colours that have never been seen let's go to places no one else has been You're in my mind all of the time I know that's not enough if the sky can crack there must be some way back to love and only love Electrical Storm Electrical Storm Electrical Storm Baby don't cry It's hot as hell, honey in this room sure hope the weather will break soon the air is heavy, heavy as a truck we need the rain to wash away our bad luck heeeey... heeeey..... If the sky can crack, there must be some way back for love and only love Electrical Storm Electrical Storm Electrical Storm Baby don't cry Baby don't cry Baby don't cry Baby don't cry