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Music U2
Lyrics Bono
Produced by Steve Lillywhite
Additional production Chris Thomas, Jacknife Lee, Nellee Hooper, Flood, Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, Carl Glanville
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Steve Lillywhite, Flood, Jacknife Lee, Nellee Hooper, Carl Glanville
Mixing assisted by Chris Heaney, Kieran Lynch, Simon Gogerly, Greg Collins, Fabien Waltmann, Ian Rossiter
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Direction by Steve Averill
Lyrics reproduced by kind permission of the publishers
All titles written by U2 and published by Universal Music Publishing B.V. except Blue Mountain Music Ltd (UK),
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Unos dos tres catorce!
Lights go down, its dark
The jungle is your head
Cant rule your heart
A feeling is so much stronger than
A thought
Your eyes are wide
And though your soul
It cant be bought
Your mind can wander
Hello hello
Im at a place called Vertigo
Its everything I wish I didnt know
Except you give me something I can feel, feel
The night is full of holes
As bullets rip the sky
Of ink with gold
They twinkle as the
Boys play rock and roll
They know they cant dance
At least they know
I cant stand the beats
Im asking for the cheque
The girl with crimson nails
Has Jesus round her neck
Swinging to the music
Swinging to the music
Oh oh oh oh
Hello hello
Im at a place called Vertigo
Its everything I wish I didnt know
But you give me something I can feel, feel
Check mated
Oh yeah
Hours of fun
All of this, all of this can be yours
All of this, all of this can be yours
All of this, all of this can be yours
Just give me what I want and no-one gets hurt
Hello hello
Were at a place called Vertigo
Lights go down and all I know
Is that you give me something
I can feel your love teaching me how
Your love is teaching me how, how to kneel
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
1// VERTIGO 3:13 2// MIRACLE DRUG 3:54
I want to trip inside your head
Spend the day there
To hear the things you havent said
And see what you might see
I want to hear you when you call
Do you feel anything at all?
I want to see your thoughts take shape
And walk right out
Freedom has a scent
Like the top of a new born babys head
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Ive had enough Im not giving up
On a miracle drug
Of science and the human heart
There is no limit
There is no failure here sweetheart
Just when you quit
I am you and you are mine
Love makes nonsense of space
And time will disappear
Love and logic keep us clear
Reason is on our side, love
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Ive had enough of romantic love
Id give it up, yeah, Id give it up
For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug
God I need your help tonight
Beneath the noise
Below the din
I hear a voice
Its whispering
In science and in medicine
I was a stranger
You took me in
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Ive had enough of romantic love
Id give it up, yeah, Id give it up
For a miracle, miracle drug
Miracle, miracle drug
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Steve Lillywhite
Additional production
by Carl Glanville
and Jacknife Lee
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Carl Glanville
and Steve Lillywhite
Piano and additional
vocal by The Edge
Additional guitar by Bono
Backing vocal by Bono
and Larry Mullen
Synthesizers and
programming by
Jacknife Lee
Additional percussion
and synthesizers by
Carl Glanville
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono with The Edge
Produced by Steve Lillywhite
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Steve Lillywhite and Carl Glanville
Backing vocals by The Edge
Synthesizers by Jacknife Lee
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 Im waiting for the dawn
Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Dont 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
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still Im 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
11// YAHWEH 4:22
My cell is ringing
No ID
I need to know whos calling
My gardens 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
Im going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
Theyre in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch them channel hop
Check the stocks
Im in detox
I want the lot of what youve got
If what youve got can make this stop
All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to be right next to you
All I want is your picture in a locket
Your face in my pocket
Take a pill to stop it
I know these fast cars
Will do me no good
Dont you worry about your mind
Dont you worry about your mind
Dont you worry about your mind
Dont you worry about your mind
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
Im documenting every detail
Every conversation
Im not used to talking to somebody in their body
Look, theres somebody in a body, somebody in a body
12// FAST CARS 3:43
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono with The Edge
Produced by Steve Lillywhite
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Steve Lillywhite
Keyboards by Jacknife Lee
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono with The Edge
Produced by Chris Thomas
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Carl Glanville
Piano, synthesizers and
backing vocals by The Edge
Mandolin by Daniel Lanois
Additional guitar by Bono
Im round the corner from anything thats real
Im across the road from hope
Im under a bridge in a rip tide
Thats taken everything I call my own
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
Im on an island at a busy intersection
I cant go forward, I cant turn back
Cant see the future
Its getting away from me
I just watch the tail lights glowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
Knowing, knowing
Im hanging out to dry
With my old clothes
Finger still red with the prick of an old rose
Well the heart that hurts
Is a heart that beats
Can you hear the drummer slowing?
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
To knowing, to knowing, to knowing
With special thanks to Noel Gallagher
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Original production by Chris Thomas and Daniel Lanois
Additional production by Jacknife Lee
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Jacknife Lee
Additional guitar by Bono
Backing vocals by The Edge
Additional guitar and pedal steel by Daniel Lanois
Synthesizers by Jacknife Lee
9// ONE STEP CLOSER 3:48
Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart
Ill give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
And I kneel cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that youre not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You dont have to be shy about it
Some things you shouldnt get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby
Ill give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that youre not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You dont have to be shy about it, no
And youll never be alone
Come on now show your soul
Youve been keeping your love under control
Everywhere you go you shout it
You dont have to be shy about it
Everywhere you go you shout it
Oh my my
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel cos I want you some more
I want you some more, I want you some more
10// ORIGINAL OF THE SPECIES 4:34
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Steve Lillywhite
Additional production by Jacknife Lee
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Flood
Assisted by Kieran Lynch
Piano and synthesizer by The Edge
Additional synthesizer by Jacknife Lee
Tough, you think youve got the stuff
Youre telling me and anyone
Youre hard enough
You dont have to put up a fight
You dont 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 dont have to go it alone
And its you when I look in the mirror
And its you when I dont pick up the phone
Sometimes you cant make it on your own
We fight all the time
You and I thats alright
Were the same soul
I dont need I dont need to hear you say
That if we werent so alike
Youd like me a whole lot more
Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You dont have to go it alone
And its you when I look in the mirror
And its you when I dont pick up the phone
Sometimes you cant make it on your own
I know that we dont talk
Im sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me - when - I -
Sing, youre the reason I sing
Youre the reason why the opera is in me
Where are we now?
Ive got to let you know
A house still doesnt make a home
Dont leave me here alone...
And its you when I look in the mirror
And its you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you cant make it on your own
Sometimes you cant make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you cant make it on your own
3// SOMETIMES YOU CANT
MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN 5:05
4// LOVE AND PEACE OR ELSE 4:48
Lay down
Lay down
Lay your sweet lovely on the ground
Lay your love on the track
Were gonna break the monsters back
Yes we are
Lay down your treasure
Lay it down now brother
You dont have time
For a jealous lover
As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart
I dont know if I can take it
Im not easy on my knees
Heres my heart you can break it
I need some release, release, release
We need
Love and peace
Love and peace
Lay down
Lay down your guns
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons
I dont know if I can make it
Im not easy on my knees
Heres my heart and you can break it
I need some release, release, release
We need
Love and peace
Love and peace
Baby dont fight
We can talk this thing through
Its not a big problem
Its just me and you
You can call or Ill phone
The TV is still on
But the sound is turned down
And the troops on the ground
Are about to dig in
And I wonder where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Love and peace
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono with The Edge
Original production by Brian Eno
and Daniel Lanois
Additional production by
Chris Thomas, Jacknife Lee
and Flood
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Flood
Assisted by Kieran Lynch
Synthesizers by Brian Eno
Piano and backing vocals by
The Edge
Shaker by Daniel Lanois
Programming and additional
synthesizers by Jacknife Lee
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Chris Thomas
Additional production by Steve Lillywhite
and Nellee Hooper
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Nellee Hooper
Mix engineering by Simon Gogerly
and Greg Collins
Programming by Fabien Waltmann
Additional mix engineering
by Simon Osbourne
Assistant mix engineering by Ian Rossiter
Keyboards and additional vocal by The Edge
I was born a child of grace
Nothing else about the place
Everything was ugly but your beautiful face
And it left me no illusion
I saw you in the curve of the moon
In the shadow cast across my room
You heard me in my tune
When I just heard confusion
All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am I am
I like the sound of my own voice
I didnt give anyone else a choice
An intellectual tortoise
Racing with your bullet train
Some people get squashed crossing the tracks
Some people got high rises on their backs
Im not broke but you can see the cracks
You can make me perfect again
All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am I am
Im alive
Im being born
I just arrived, Im at the door
Of the place I started out from
And I want back inside
All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am
5// CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS 5:46 6//ALL BECAUSE OF YOU 3:34
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Flood
Additional production by Chris Thomas and Jacknife Lee
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney and Kieran Lynch
Mixed by Nellee Hooper
Mix engineering by Simon Gogerly and Greg Collins
Programming by Fabien Waltmann
Assistant mix engineering by Ian Rossiter
Piano by The Edge and Bono
Synthesizers by Jacknife Lee
The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now
Neon heart dayglo eyes
A city lit by fireflies
Theyre advertising in the skies
For people like us
And I miss you when youre not around
Im getting ready to leave the ground
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Dont look before you laugh
Look ugly in a photograph
Flash bulbs purple irises
The camera cant see
Ive seen you walk unafraid
Ive seen you in the clothes you made
Can you see the beauty inside of me?
What happened to the beauty I had inside of me?
And I miss you when youre not around
Im getting ready to leave the ground
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Time time
Wont leave me as I am
But time wont take the boy out of this man
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
The more you know the less you feel
Some pray for others steal
Blessings are not just for the ones who kneel luckily
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Steve Lillywhite
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Flood
Assisted by Kieran Lynch
Backing vocals by The Edge
Keyboards by Jacknife Lee
From the brightest star
Comes the blackest hole
You had so much to offer
Why did you offer your soul?
I was there for you baby
When you needed my help
Would you deny for others
What you demand for yourself?
Cool down mama, cool off
Cool down mama, cool off
You speak of signs and wonders
I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But Im waiting on the crumbs from your table
You were pretty as a picture
It was all there to see
Then your face caught up with your psychology
With a mouth full of teeth
You ate all your friends
And you broke every heart thinking every heart mends
You speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But Im waiting on the crumbs from your table
Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die
Three to a bed
Sister Ann, she said
Dignity passes by
And you speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
Im waiting on the crumbs from your table
Little sister dont you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister
I know that everything is not ok
But youre like honey on my tongue
True love never can be rent
But only true love can keep beauty innocent
I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
No I could never take a chance
Cos I could never understand
The mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
You can run from love
And if its really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel
But you cant be numb for love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
How can I hurt when Im holding you?
I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
And youre the one, theres no-one else
You make me want to lose myself
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
Brown eyed girl across the street
On rue Saint Divine
I thought this is the one for me
But she was already mine
You were already mine
Little sister
Ive been sleeping in the street again
Like a stray dog
Little sister
Ive been trying to feel complete again
But youre gone and so is God
The soul needs beauty for a soul mate
When the soul wants the soul waits
No I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
7//A MAN AND A WOMAN 4:27 8// CRUMBS FROM YOUR TABLE 4:59
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Steve Lillywhite
Additional production by Jacknife Lee
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Steve Lillywhite, Flood and Jacknife Lee
Assisted by Kieran Lynch
Additional guitar-atmospherics and
synthesizers by Jacknife Lee
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Jacknife Lee
Additional production by Steve Lillywhite
and Carl Glanville
Recorded by Carl Glanville
Assisted by Chris Heaney
Mixed by Jacknife Lee
Backing vocal and additional percussion by The Edge
Synthesizers by Jacknife Lee
For love and sex and faith and fear
And all the things that keep us here
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
How can I hurt when Im holding you?