U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own [Songs Of Surrender version]

Tough, you think you've got the stuff
You're telling me and anyone
You're hard enough

You don't have to put up a fight
You don't have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

We fight all the time
You and I, that's alright
We're the same soul
I don't need, I don't need to hear you say
That if we weren't so alike
You'd like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me - when - I -
Sing, you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me

Well hey now
Still gotta let you know
A house still doesn't make a home
Don't leave me here alone...

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Sometimes you can't make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

U2 - Always

Here today, gone tomorrow
Crack the bone, get to the marrow
To be a bee and the 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, 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
Well if you dream then dream out loud, always
Eternally yours, always


I want you
I want you
I want you


Know what to do yourself, always
Go 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
Turning slowly into a prayer, always


Now and forever
For always

U2 - Yahweh [Alternate Version]

Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing, sing

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I’m waiting for the dawn

Take these hands
And teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Don’t make a fist, no
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss

Yahweh, Yahweh
Oh the pain before the child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I’m waiting for the dawn
I’m still waiting…
I’m still waiting for the dawn

Take these blue eyes…
Take these blue eyes…
Take these eyes and make them see
Love is just a drop in the ocean
This love is just a drop in the ocean
Love is just a drop in the ocean

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, yah waiting for me?
Still I’m waiting for the dawn

Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city
If it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break

U2 - Native Son

Yeah its on the street
It’s under your feet
It’s everywhere
But if you’re looking for free
Don’t look at me
My enemy became my country

On the run, officer put down the gun
Native son, I never wanted to own one
Native son, both of us want to be someone
It’s so hard, is it so hard for a native son
To be free?

Tears fallen from the sky
Fallen to the ground
Bullets start to fly
He’s hurt, he’s in the dirt
On my word
I did not take his life

Don’t want to run away
This isn’t in my father’s plans
I know I can’t stay
If I stay I know what’s next

On the run, officer put down the gun
Native son, I never wanted to own one
Native son, both of us want to be someone
It’s so hard, is it so hard for a native son
To be free?

Free

Free

On the run, officer put down the gun
Native son, I never wanted to own one
Native son, both of us want to be someone
It’s so hard, is it so hard for a native son
To be free?
Free
Free

U2 - Flower Child

(All you know, you don’t know yet)

On the fifth day of may, she was breaking away
When the moon came and sat on your shoulder
She was still young, not yet highly strung
As you need to be when you get older
George was a street, when you first faced the feat
You put money on the color of the sky
Well the color of her voice left you there with no choice
But to drink the Liffey dry

The seeds that you sow
You wanna watch them growing
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart

Here comes Holy Joe, now how would he know
How laughter can make a man cruel
It’s fire on fire, and lovers conspire
To either a duet or duel
When it’s fire on fire, the flames just get higher
The harder you work to put them out
Well you know that you’re similar, sugar and weedkiller
Both heading north facing south


The seeds that you sow
You wanna watch them growing
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild…

U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own (Alternate Version)

Tough, you think you’ve got the stuff

You’re telling me and anyone

You’re hard enough

You don’t have to put up a fight

You don’t have to always be right

Let me take some of the punches

For you tonight

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don’t have to go it alone

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

When I was a young boy, in the suburb of Cedarwood

I wanted to be great

‘Cause good would not be good enough

Now that I’m older

I don’t see things any clearer

Nearer now, but still a long way off

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don’t have to go it alone

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

(Can, you, hear, me, when, I) sing

You’re the reason I sing

You’re the reason why the opera is in me

Hey now, gotta let you know

A house still don’t make a home

Don’t leave me here alone

(Leave me here)

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

Sometimes you can’t make it

Best you can do is to fake it

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

U2 - Saturday Night

He stood on his shadow

They always do

All he wanted was to spoil the view

Of people and places

Second-hand faces

He saw but never knew

Oh-ho-ho-ho

Look like a painting

A picture of you

Depending on your point of view

She laughed with the others

They call out her name

She smiled, she said

Goodbye

Oh-ho-ho-ho

Oh-ho-ho-ho

Oh… on a Saturday night

Oh… on a Saturday night

Oh… on a Saturday night

Oh… Saturday night

Saturday night

Saturday night

They met at a streetlight

Though she never knew

All he wanted was to spoil the view

And just for a second

It felt like a year

He waited for her second tear

Oh-ho-ho-ho

Oh-ho

Oh… on a Saturday night

Oh… on a Saturday night

Oh… on a Saturday night

Oh… on a Saturday night

Saturday night

Saturday night

You fly any higher

But you can’t let go

To save her in the fire

She wants to let go

Oh-ho-ho

Oh-ho-ho

Oh-ho-ho

Oh-ho-ho…

(Do I leave)

(The whole thing)

(Okay)

(Always a chord)

(Downtown)

Downtown

U2 - Xanax And Wine

My cell is ringing, no ID

I want to know who’s calling

My garden’s overgrown

I go out on my belly crawling / (he’s crawling)

I got CCTV, pornography, CNBC

I got the nightly news

To get to know the enemy

All I want is a picture of you

All I want is to get right next to you

All I want is a picture in a locket

Your face in my pocket

I take a pill to stop it

Save me, save me from myself

I know that you’ve been good to me

Now I need you not to be

Wake me, I feel like I’ve been asleep

I’m buying things I can’t afford

I’m on a high diving board

Oh it’s you that’s keeping me dry

Xanax and wine

I’m going nowhere

Where I am it is a lot of fun

They’re in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb

I watch ‘em shadow box

Check the stocks, I’m in detox

Want the lot of what you’ve got

If what you’ve got can make this stop

All I want is a picture of you

All I want is to get right next to you

All I want is your picture in a locket

Your face in my pocket

I take a pill to stop it

Save me, save me from myself

I know that you’ve been good to me

Now I need you not to be

Wake me, I feel like I’ve been asleep

Try not to look so bored

You’re buying things you can’t afford

I got yours and I know you want mine

Xanax and wine

Don’t you worry ‘bout your mind

Thing is I worry all the time

Don’t you worry you’ll be fine

You should worry about the day

That the pain it goes away

You know I miss mine sometimes

There is no fiction

That will truly fit the situation

I’m documenting every detail

Every conversation

I’m not used to talking to somebody in their body

It’s somebody in a body, it’s somebody in a body

In a body there’s somebody

Somebody in a body

Somebody, somebody, somebody

It’s somebody… in a body

Somebody… in a body

It’s somebody… in a body

There’s somebody…

U2 - Fast Cars [Jacknife Lee Mix]

My cell, my cell, my cell
Cell is, cell is, cell is, cell is

My cell is ringing, no ID
I need to know who’s calling
My garden’s overgrown
I go out on my belly crawling
I got CCTV, pornography, CNBC
I got the nightly news
To get to know the enemy

All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to get right next to you
All I want is your face in a locket
Picture in my pocket
I take a pill to stop it

I know these fast cars
Will do me no good

I’m going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
They’re in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch ‘em shadow box
Check the stocks, I’m in detox
Want the lot of what you’ve got
If what you’ve got can make this stop

All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to get right next to you
All I want is your picture in a locket
Your face in my pocket
I take a pill to stop it

I know these fast cars
Will do me no good

High…

Don’t you worry ‘bout your mind
Don’t you worry ‘bout your mind
Don’t you worry ‘bout your mind
Don’t you worry ‘bout your mind
You should worry about the day
That the pain it goes away
You know I miss mine sometimes

(Is silence so much to believe?)

(Silence? Uh huh)

There is no fiction
That will truly fit the situation
I’m documenting every detail
Every conversation
I’m not used to talking to somebody in a body
Somebody in a body
Somebody in a body

U2 - Neon Lights

Shimmering neon lights

And at the fall of night

This city’s made of lights

Neon lights

Shimmering neon lights

And at the fall of night

This city’s made of lights

(Shut that fool up)

(Shut up)

Neon lights

Shimmering neon lights

And at the fall of night

This city’s made of lights

Neon lights

Shimmering neon lights

And at the fall of night

This city’s made of lights

(originally recorded by Kraftwerk)

U2 - Levitate

It’s in your voice, I can feel it, I can tell (it)

It’s in your voice, has me ringing me like a bell

Peace of mind, peace comes dropping slow

I’m in the mind, to let go of control

Spirit come on down, no I’m not coming down

In the backstreets, in the backstreets of our love

Through the locked doors, deep down, deep down is not enough

Spirit come on down, no I’m not coming down

(And guitar)

Who can stop us now

It’s much too late

Can’t slow us down

We can’t hesitate

I want a love that’s hard

As hard as hate

Levitate

To be the bee, to be the bee and the flower

Before the sweetness, before the sweetness turns to sour

When freedom comes, freedom has a scent

It’s like the top of a newborn baby’s head

Baby we can taste it, you and I

Spirit come on down, no I’m not coming down

Who could stop us now

Who could make us wait

Who could slow us down

Make us hesitate

I want a love that’s hard

As hard as hate

Levitate

Oh, lift me up

Spirit come, come on down, no I’m not coming down

Spirit come on down, no I’m not coming down

Spirit come, come on down, no I’m not coming down

U2 - Beautiful Ghost / Introduction To Songs Of Experience

Hear the voice of the Bard

Who present, past, and future, sees

Whose ears have heard

The Holy Word

That walk’d among the ancient trees

Calling the lapsed soul

And weeping in the evening dew

That might control

The starry pole

And fallen, fallen light renew

‘O Earth, O Earth, return

Arise from out the dewy grass

Night is worn

And the morn

Rises from the slumbrous mass

Turn away no more

Why wilt thou turn away

The starry floor

The watery shore

Is given thee till the break of day

Till the break of day

Till the break of day

Till the break of day

Till the break of day

U2 - Love You Like Mad

(Ready?)

(I love you, oh baby)

Nothing worth taking… so I never really took
Nothing was shaking… but baby you really shook
No one was waking… until you kept me up
If your heart was breaking…. you know I won’t see you stuck

The pain never felt so good
To feel so bad
I love you… I love you like mad
I love you… I love you like mad
Uh

(I love you)

No one worth knowing… has ever known a thing
No one who knew how… could ever teach the world to sing
You are the only one… I’ve ever listened to
So don’t wait for me to ask… tell me what to do

The pain never felt so good
To feel so bad
I love you… I love you like mad
Love you… I love you like mad
Love… love you like mad

Don’t worry baby, if you’re in the spotlight
I’ll do the maximum time… for you tonight
You know that we’re not crazy
Well maybe just a touch
Some sweet delight, a sugar rush
And some kisses cost too much

I love you… I love you like mad
Love you… I love you like mad
Love you… love you like mad
Love you… love you like mad
Owwww

Hey hey, hey hey, / (I love you, I love)
Hey hey / (I love you, I love)

Love you, love you, like mad
Love you, love you, like mad
Love you, love you, like mad
Love you, love you, like mad / (B-O-N-O off the tree)
Love you, love you, like mad / (I am going S-A-D)
(B-O-N-O on the tree, I am going M-A-D)

U2 - Jesus Christ

One, two, three, four

Well Jesus was a man

Who traveled through the land

A hard working man and brave

Well he said to the rich ‘Give your money to the poor’

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, halelujah

For they laid Jesus Christ is his grave

Well he went to the preacher

He went to the law

And told them all the same

He said sell all your jewelry and give it to the poor

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

When Jesus came to town all the working folks around

Believed what he did say

Well the bankers and the preachers

They nailed him on a cross

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

And [hard] working people

They followed him around

They sung and shouted gay

Well the cops and the soldiers

They nailed him in the head

And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

Oh, halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

Hale, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

Well this song was written in New York City

A rich man, preacher and slave

Well if Jesus was to preach what he preached in Galilee

They would lay Jesus Christ in his grave

One, two, three, four!

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

Halle, hallelujah

For they laid Jesus Christ in his grave

(Amen) / Yeah yeah

(originally recorded by Woodie Guthrie)

U2 - Big Girls Are Best

Ow, Ow, Oww

Ow, Ow, Oww

Baby

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 coco butter, baby, she’s the glue

She’s got the baby at her breast

She knows big girls are best

(We sing it)

(Uh huh, we go)

Mama mama mama

Mama mama mama

Mama mama mama

I’m gonna change like the weather, hot to cold

Oh, yeah yeah yeah

She’s 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

Oh Oh

Mama mama mama mama

(Help me)

Sexy mama mom say mama ma

(Coming today)

Say mama mom say mama ma

Say mama mama mama mama ma

Lovely

She’s elliptical, extra political

Oh so spiritual, not superficial

Yeah, she’s tropical

Yes, she’s illogical

Those little girls are a pest

Big girls are the best

Ow, ow oww

Ow, ow oww

Baby

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 girls

Mama mama mama mama

Sexy mama mama ma ma ma

Sexy mama mama ma ma ma

Sexy mama mama ma ma ma

(Hey boy!)

Sexy ma ma ma ma ma ma

My mama

U2 - Smile

Gravity, is not pulling me
I won’t be a picture with no sign
Decaying, I’m praying
You are my air but
I need the ground to kneel upon
And love can’t be a song
I don’t want to see you smile

I’m breaking it, taking it
I’m breaking it slowly in mind
I’m seeing it, freeing it
I know love is in this soul of mine
It’s not in your eyes
I don’t want…
I don’t want to see you smile

I started, light-hearted
It won’t be easy like you said
I’m going, flowing
I’m leaving on the day of the dead
I will live again
You will live again
I don’t want to see you smile

God knows it, knows me
Knows me, knows me
You sing, hear me love
Say it again, burnt out blind
The smoke machine is yours not mine
I don’t want to see you smile

I will live again
You will live again
I just don’t want to see you smile

U2 - Angels Too Tied to the Ground

What is it that keeps me back from you
What is it when I just can't get through
What is it when we've nothing left to do
But savor the mess that we tried

What is it when the clock just won't rewind
What is it when our love seems to stop time
I'm telling you
Waving a white flag
Baby got a white flag flying for you baby
Got a white flag, a white flag

Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground

And now it's only alive in my head
In my mind
All in my head, in my mind

Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground

Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground

U2 - Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)

Heat haze rising on Hell's own hill
To wake up this morning was an act of will
You walked through the night to get to today
To bring your children to give them a way

Oh, oh this cruel sun
Its daylight never done
Cruelty just begun
To make a shadow of everyone

And if the rain came
And if the rain came now

Souls bent over without a breeze
Blankets on burning trees
I'm sick without disease
Nobility on its knees

And if the rain came
And if the rain came now

Would it wash us all away
On a wave of sorrow
A wave of sorrow

Where now the holy cities
Where all the ancient holy scrolls
Where now the Emperor Menelik
And the Queen of Sheba's gold
You, my bride, wear her crown
On your finger a precious stone
Has every good thing now been sold

Oh son of the shepherd boy now king
What wisdom can you bring
What lyric could you sing
Where is the music of the seraphim

And if the rain came
And if the rain came now
Would it wash us all away
On a wave of sorrow
A wave, a wave of sorrow

Blessed are the meek who scratch in the dirt
For they shall inherit what's left of the earth
Blessed are the kings who have left their thrones
They are blessed in this valley of dry bones
Blessed are you with an empty heart
For you have nothing form which you cannot part
Blessed is the ego if it's all we've got this hour
Blessed is the voice that speaks truth to power
Blessed is the sex worker's body sold tonight
She works with what she's got to save her children's life
Blessed are the deaf who cannot hear her scream
Blessed are the stupid who can dream
Blessed are the tin can cardboard slums
And blessed is the spirit that overcomes

U2 - Trash, Trampoline And The Party Girl

I know a girl
A girl called Party, Party Girl
I know she wants more than a party, Party Girl
And she won't tell me her name

I know a boy
A boy called Trash, Trash Can
I know he does all that he can, wham bam
And she won't tell me his name

When I was three
I thought the world revolved around me
I was wrong
But you can sing, sing along
And if you dance
Then dance with me

I know a girl
A girl called Party, Party Girl
I know she wants more than a party, Party Girl

I know a boy
A boy called Trampoline
You know what I mean
I think you know what he wants
I think he knows what he wants
I think he knows what he wants.

U2 - Yahweh

Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Don't make a fist
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahewh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?

Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city
If it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break