Best Of U2-1980-90

Love don't need to find a way
You find your own way
I forget that i can't stay
And so i say that
All roads lead to where you are
All roads lead to where you are


The seed is spilled, the bed defiled
For you, a virgin bride
Hide yourself in someone else
Don't find yourself in me


I can't lift you up again
Love comes tumbling down again


Love don't need to find a way
You find your own way
I forget that you can stay
And so i say that
All roads lead to where you are
All roads lead to where you are

yes...


I can't believe the news today
Oh, i can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? how long...

'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...


Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But i won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall


Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday bloody sunday...)
(allright lets go!)

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart


Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday


How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? how long...

'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...
Tonight...


Sunday, bloody sunday (tonight)
Tonight
Sunday, bloody sunday (tonight)
(come get some!)


Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
I wipe your tears away
(sunday, bloody sunday)
I wipe your blood shot eyes
(sunday, bloody sunday)


Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday, bloody sunday)
Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday, bloody sunday)
(here i come!)


And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and tv reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die


The real battle yet begun (sunday, bloody sunday)
To claim the victory jesus won (sunday, bloody sunday)
On...


Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday...

If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If i could, yes i would
If i could, i would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate


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


To let it go
And so to fade away
To let it go
And so fade away


I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no


If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what i would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes


If i could, you know i would
If i could, i would
Let it go...


This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go


And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so to fade away


I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no

(instrumental)

I will follow...


I was on the outside when you said
You said you needed me
I was looking at myself
I was blind, i could not see


A boy tries hard to be a man
His mother takes him by his hand
If he stops to think he starts to cry
Oh why


If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow


If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow


I was on the inside
When they pulled the four walls down
I was looking through the window
I was lost, i am found


Walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow
If you walkaway, walkaway,
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow
I will follow


Your eyes make a circle
I see you when i go in there
Your eyes, your eyes...


If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway..i will follow


If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow


I will follow
I will follow...

You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want
Your story to remain untold


But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all i want is you


You say you'll give me
A highway with no one on it
Treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night


You say you'll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all i want is you


You say you want
Your love to work out right
To last with me through the night


You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold


All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all i want is you


You...all i want is...
You...all i want is...
You...all i want is...
You...

I have climbed highest mountain
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
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
Bleed into one
Well yes i'm still running


You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of 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
But i still haven't found what i'm looking for
But i still haven't found what i'm looking for...

Yeah...


All is quiet on new year's day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on new year's day
On new year's day


I will be with you again
I will be with you again


Under a blood red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspapers says, says
Say it's true it's true...
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one


I...i will begin again
I...i will begin again


Oh...
Maybe the time is right
Oh...maybe tonight...


I will be with you again
I will be with you again


And so we're told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though i want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On new year's day
On new year's day

In the shit house a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
Only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town
Tin can town


No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fell down
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground
Chained to the ground
The warden said
The exit is sold
If you want a way out
Silver and gold


Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence, it's crawling
It crawls under the door
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun
Jesus say something
I am someone, i am someone
I am someone


Captain and kings
In the ships hold
They came to collect
Silver and gold
Silver and gold


Seen the coming and going
Seen them captains and the kings
See them navy blue uniforms
See them bright and shiny things
Bright shiny things


The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister, i ain't got nothing
But it's more than you got


Chains no longer bind me
Not the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free
Set them free
Set them free


A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts
Silver and gold
Silver and gold


[spoken part follows:]


Yep, silver and gold... this song was written in a hotel room in new york city 'round about the time a friend or ours, little steven, was puting together a record of artists against apartheid. t
S a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of johannesburg. a man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white south africa. a man who is at the point where he is ready to take up a
Gainst his oppressor. a man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while they argue and while they fail to support a man like bishop tutu and his request for economic sanctions agains
Th africa.

Am i buggin' you? i don't mean to bug ya...


Okay edge, play the blues...

She is benediction
She is addicted to he
She is the root connection and
She is connecting with me


Here i go and i don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taking over me


I'm dancing barefoot
Headed for a spin
Some strange music drags me in
It makes me come up like some heroine


She is sublimation
She is the essence of thee
She is concentrating on
He who is chosen by she


Here i go when i don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taking over me


I'm dancing barefoot
Headed for a spin
Some strange strange music drags me in
It makes me come up like some heroine


She is recreation
She intoxicated by thee
She has the slow sensation that
He is levitating with she


Here i go when i don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
'til i lose my sense of gravity


I'm dancing barefoot
Heading for a spin
Some strange music drives me on
Makes me come up like some heroine


Oh god i feel for you
Oh god i feel for you
Oh god i feel for you
Oh god i feel for 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 to win and
Nothing left to lose


And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away


With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you


With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you

She said it wasn't cold
She left her coat at home that day
She wore canvas shoes
White canvas shoes
Around her neck
She wore a silver necklace
It was given to me by my father, she said
It was given to me


She took the back way home
Passed the lights and the summerhill
Turned left onto the north strand
And on, and towards the sea


He said he was an artist
But he really painted billboards
In large capital letters
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
You were blown by the wind


Walk, walk, walk...to the water
Walk with me a while
Walk, walk, walk...to the roadside
Walk me in the light


A room in the royal hotel
Sea facing views
A man with a suitcase
Full of things he doesn't need
I'm looking through your window
I'm walking 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...yeah
Walk, walk, walk...to the roadside
Walk with me again

One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow


In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love


One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss


In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love


(nobody like you...)


Early morning, april 4
Shot rings out in the memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride


In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love...

Oh, oh my love
Oh my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time


And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine


I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me


Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea


Lonely rivers sigh
Wait for me, wait for me
I'll be coming home
Wait for me


Oh, oh my love
Oh my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time


And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine


I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me (it to me)
God speed your love to me
(i need your love)
[repeat until end]