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Helter Skelter |
[Spoken: Bono]
This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it back.
[Intro]
When you get to the bottom
You go back to the top of the slide
And you stop and you turn
And you go for a ride
Then you get to the bottom
Then you see me again
Hey, hey, hey
[Verse 1]
Do you, don't you want me to love you?
(Yeah)
Coming down fast, I'm right here above you
(Yeah)
Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer
Ain't no lover, but you ain't no dancer
[Chorus]
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Ooh
[Verse 2]
Do you, don't you want me to make you?
(Yeah)
I'm coming down fast, now don't let me break you
(Yeah)
Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer
You ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer
[Chorus]
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Ooh
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
When you get to the bottom
You go back to the top of the slide
And you turn and you stop
And you go for a ride
Then you get to the bottom
Then you'll see me again
Hey, hey, hey
[Verse 1]
Do you, don't you want me to love you?
(Yeah)
Coming down fast, I'm right here above you
(Yeah)
Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer
Ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer
[Chorus]
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Ooh, and again
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Ooh
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Van Diemen's Land |
[Verse 1]
Hold me now, oh hold me now
Till this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
[Verse 2]
It's a bitter pill I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice and not for gain
But the magistrate sent me away
[Verse 3]
Now kings will rule and the poor will toil
And tear their hands as they tear the soil
But a day will come in this dawning age
When an honest man sees an honest wage
[Verse 1]
Hold me now, oh hold me now
Till this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's Land
[Outro]
What has happened, um, between the writing of the uh, The Joshua Tree album, recording The Joshua Tree album, and uh, the tour and now the new songs?
Adam?
Oh, I don't know.
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Desire |
[Intro]
Yeah
[Verse 1]
Lover, I'm off the streets
I'm gonna go where the bright lights and the big city meet
With a red guitar, on fire
Desire
[Verse 2]
She's the candle burnin' in my room
Yeah, I'm like the needle, the needle and spoon
Over the counter with a shotgun
Pretty soon everybody's got one
[Chorus]
And the fever when I'm beside her
Desire
Desire
(Ready)
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
And the fever gettin' higher
Desire
Desire
[Post-Chorus]
(Burning, burning)
[Verse 3]
She's the dollars, she's my protection
Yeah, she's the promise in the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher stealin' hearts at a travellin' show
For love or money, money, money, money, money, money
Money, money, money, money, money
[Chorus]
And the fever gettin' higher
Desire
Desire
Desire
Desire
(Okay)
[Harmonica Solo]
[Outro]
Desire
Desire
(Alright)
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Hawkmoon 269 |
[Verse 1: Bono]
Like a desert needs rain
Like a town needs a name
I need your love
Like a drifter needs a room
Hawkmoon
I need your love
I need your love
[Verse 2: Bono]
Like a rhythm unbroken
Like drums in the night
Like sweet soul music
Like sunlight
I need your love
[Verse 3: Bono, The Edge]
Like coming home
And you don't know where you've been
Like black coffee
Like nicotine
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
Oh, I need your love (I need your love)
[Chorus: Bono & The Edge, Bono]
When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
I need your love
[Verse 4: Bono, The Edge]
Like a phoenix rising
Needs a holy tree
Like the sweet revenge
Of a bitter enemy
I need your love (I need your love)
[Verse 5: Bono, The Edge]
Like heat needs the sun
Like honey on her tongue
Like the muzzle of a gun
Like oxygen
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
[Chorus: Bono & The Edge, Bono, The Edge]
When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
I need your love, oh
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love
I need your love
[Verse 6: Bono]
Like thunder needs rain
Like a preacher needs pain
Like tongues of flame
Like a sheet stain
Need your love
I need your love
[Verse 7: Bono, The Edge]
Like a needle needs a vein
Like someone to blame
Like a thought unchained
Like a runaway train
Need your love, I need your love
Need your love, I need your love, oh
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love), oh
[Verse 8: Bono, Edna Wright, Carolyn Willis & Billie Barnum]
Like faith needs a doubt
(In the heart of the beat of love)
Like a freeway out
(In the heart of the beat of love)
Need your love
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
Like powder needs a spark
(In the heart of the beat of love)
Like lies need the dark
(In the heart of the beat of love)
I need your love
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
[Outro: Edna Wright, Carolyn Willis & Billie Barnum]
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
(In the heart of the beat of love)
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All Along the Watchtower |
[Verse 1]
"There must be some way out of here"
Said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion here
I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them know along the line
What any of this is worth, yeah"
[Verse 2]
"No reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many among us
Who think that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And that is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
Because the hour is getting late"
Hey, hey, hey
[Verse 3]
Ooh, ooh, ooh
All along the watchtower
And princes kept the view
While horsemen came and went
Barefoot servants too
[Verse 4]
All I got is a red guitar
Three chords and the truth
All I got is a red guitar
The rest is up to you
[Verse 2]
"There's no reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are some among us here
Say that life is just a joke
You and I, we've been through that
And that is not our fate, at least today
So let us not talk falsely now
Because the hour is getting late, late"
[Outro]
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh, oh
Yeah, yeah
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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For |
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
(Alright)
[Verse 2]
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like a fire (Burning hot like fire)
This burning desire (Burning with desire)
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night (In the night)
I was cold as a stone, yeah (Cold as stone)
[Chorus]
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
[Post-Chorus]
He will lift ya, higher and higher
He will pick you up when you fall
He'll be your shelter from the storm
[Verse 3]
I believe in the Kingdom Come
Then all the colours will bleed into one
Bleed into one
But yes, I'm still running
You broke the bonds (Broke the bonds)
Loosed the chains (Loosed the chains)
Carried the cross (Carried the cross)
Of my shame (Of my shame)
Of my shame
You know I believe it
(I believe, I believe)
[Chorus]
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
Well, I still haven't found what I'm looking for
[Verse 1]
I have climbed (I have climbed)
The highest mountain (Highest mountain)
I have run (I have run)
Through the fields (Through the fields)
Only to be with you (Only to be with you)
Only to be with you (Just to be with you)
I have run (I have run)
I have crawled (I have crawled)
I have scaled (I have scaled)
These city walls (City walls)
These city walls (Only to be with you)
Only to be with you (Just to be with you)
[Chorus]
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 (Searchin', lookin', higher)
But I still (I haven't found it) haven't found (Oh yeah) what I'm looking for
(The New Voices of Freedom!)
[Verse 3]
I believe (I believe)
In the Kingdom Come (In the Kingdom Come)
All the colours (When all the colours)
Bleed into one (Bleed into one, yeah)
Ooh (You know I believe it)
I believe it (You know I do)
[Chorus]
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for (Searchin', lookin', higher)
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for (Keep searchin' around)
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
(I keep on searchin' tryin' to find it)
But I still haven't found (I'm searchin' high and low) what I'm looking for
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Freedom for My People |
I need some freedom
Freedom for my people
I want some freedom
Freedom
Freedom, freedom for my people
I'd like some freedom
I need some freedom for my people
Freedom
Freedom, freedom for my people
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Silver and Gold |
[Verse 1]
In the shithouse a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
Only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town, tin can town
[Verse 2]
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, chained to the ground
[Chorus]
The warden says, "The exit is sold"
If you want a way out...
Silver and—
[Verse 3]
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence
It's crawling, crawls under the door
[Verse 4]
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
[Chorus]
Captains and kings in the ship's hold
They came to collect
Silver and gold, silver and gold
[Verse 5]
Seen the coming and the going
Seen them captains and kings
Seen their navy blue uniforms
Seen them bright and shiny things, bright and shiny things, yeah
[Verse 6]
The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister, I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you've got
[Verse 7]
Chains no longer bind me
Not the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free, set them free
Set them free
[Chorus]
A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts
Silver and gold, silver and gold
[Outro]
Yep, silver and gold.
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City 'round about the time a friend of ours, Little Steven, was putting together a record of Artists Against Apartheid. It'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 arms against 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 against South Africa.
Am I bugging you? Don't mean to bug ya. Okay Edge, play the blues.
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Pride (In the Name of Love) |
[Verse 1]
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come he to justify
One man to overthrow
[Chorus]
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
(The Edge)
[Bridge]
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh
[Verse 3]
Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
[Chorus]
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
[Bridge]
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
For the Reverend Martin Luther King, sing
[Chorus]
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
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Angel of Harlem |
[Verse 1]
It was a cold and wet December day
When we touched the ground at JFK
The snow was melting on the ground
On BLS I heard the sound
Of an angel
New York like a Christmas tree
Tonight this city belongs to me
Angel
[Chorus]
Soul love
Well, this love won't let me go
So long
Angel of Harlem
[Verse 2]
Birdland on Fifty-Three
The street sounds like a symphony
We got John Coltrane and A Love Supreme
Miles says she's got to be an angel
Lady Day got diamond eyes
She sees the truth behind the lies
Angel
[Chorus]
Soul love
Well, this love won't let me go
So long
Angel of Harlem
Angel of Harlem, yeah
[Bridge]
She says it's heart, heart and soul
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Yeah yeah, right now
[Verse 3]
Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
Empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee-sting
Blinded, you lost your way
In the side streets and the alleyways
Like a star exploding in the night
Falling to the city in broad daylight
[Chorus]
Angel in devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an angel
Yeah, yeah
Angel of Harlem
[Outro]
Angel, angel of Harlem
Angel, angel of Harlem
Angel, angel of Harlem
Angel, angel of Harlem
(Alright, that's alright, that's alright)
(Angel of Harlem)
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Love Rescue Me |
[Verse 1]
Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up
And don't let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
[Verse 2]
Many strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love, rescue me
[Bridge]
And the sun in the sky
Makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said, love, rescue me
[Verse 3]
In the cold mirror of a glass
I see my reflection pass
I see the dark shades of what I used to be
I see the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love, rescue me
[Bridge]
Yea though I walk
In the valley of the shadow
Yet, I will fear no evil
I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love, rescue me
[Verse 4]
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la, sha la la la
Sha la la la la
I said love, love, rescue me
[Verse 5]
I said love
Climb up the mountains, said love
I said love
Oh my love on the hill
On the hill of the sun
I'm on the eve of a storm
And my word you must believe in love
I said love, rescue me
[Verse 6]
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said love, rescue me
[Verse 7]
I've conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance to a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
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When Love Comes to Town |
[Intro: Bono]
Hey, yeah yeah
Hey, yeah yeah yeah
[Verse 1: Bono]
I was a sailor, I was lost at sea
I was under the waves before love rescued me
I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread
Now I stand accused of the things I've said
[Chorus : B.B. King]
When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town
[Verse 2: Bono]
Used to make love under a red sunset
I was making promises I was soon to forget
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown
But I left her standing before love came to town
[Verse 3: Bono]
Ran into a juke-joint when I heard a guitar scream
The notes were turning blue, I was dazed and in a dream
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town
[Chorus: B.B. King]
When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town
[Bridge: Rebecca Evans Russell, Phyllis Duncan & Helen Duncan]
Hey, yeah yeah
Hey, yeah yeah
[Chorus: B.B. King]
When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 4: B.B. King]
I was there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide
[Chorus: B.B. King]
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town
[Post-Chorus: Bono]
Hey, yeah yeah
Hey, yeah
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro: Rebecca Evans Russell, Phyllis Duncan & Helen Duncan]
Hey, yeah yeah
Hey, yeah
Hey, yeah yeah
Ooh
Hey, yeah yeah
Hey, yeah yeah
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh
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Heartland |
[Verse 1]
See the sun rise over her skin
Don't change it
See the sunrise over her skin
Dawn changes everything, everything
And the delta sun
Burns bright and violent
[Verse 2]
Mississippi and the cotton wool heat
Sixty-six, a highway speaks
Of deserts dry
Of cool green valleys
Gold and silver veins
All the shining cities
[Chorus]
In this heartland
In this heartland soil
In this heartland
Heaven knows
This is our heartland
Heartland
[Verse 3]
See the sunrise over her skin
She feels like water in my hand
Freeway like a river
Cuts through this land
Into the side of love
Like a burning spear
And the poison rain
Brings a flood of fear
Through the ghost ranch hills
Death Valley waters
In the towers of steel
Belief goes on and on
[Chorus]
In this heartland
In this heartland soil
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland (Sing a song, sing a song)
Heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland (Sing a song, sing a song)
Heaven knows
Heartland (Sing a song, sing a song)
Heaven's day here in the heartland
Heartland
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God Part II |
[Verse 1]
Don't believe the devil
I don't believe his book
But the truth is not the same
Without the lies he made up
Don't believe in excess
Success is to give
Don't believe in riches
But you should see where I live
I, I believe in love
[Verse 2]
Don't believe in forced entry
Don't believe in rape
But every time she passes by
Wild thoughts escape
Don't believe in death row
Skid row or the gangs
Don't believe in the Uzi
It just went off in my hand
I, I believe in love
[Verse 3]
Don't believe in cocaine
Got a speedball in my head
I could cut and crack you open
Did you hear what I said?
Don't believe them when they tell me
There ain't no cure
The rich stay healthy
The sick stay poor
I, I believe in love
[Bridge]
Love, love, love, love
[Verse 4]
Don't believe in Goldman
His type like a curse
Instant karma's gonna get him
If I don't get him first
Don't believe that rock 'n' roll
Can really change the world
As it spins in revolution
Yeah, it spirals and turns
I, I believe in love
[Verse 5]
Don't believe in the sixties
The golden age of pop
You glorify the past
When the future dries up
Heard a singer on the radio
Late last night
Says he's gonna kick the darkness
Till it bleeds daylight
I, I believe in love, love
[Verse 6]
Love, love
Love, love, love
Feel like I'm fallin'
I'm spinnin' on a wheel
It always stops beside a name
A presence I can feel
I believe in love
Stop!
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Bullet the Blue Sky |
[Verse 1]
In the howlin' wind
Comes a stingin' rain
See it drivin' nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly
A red orange glow
I see the face of fear
Runnin' scared in the valley below
[Chorus]
(Sky) Ooh
(Sky) Ooh
Bullet the blue sky (Sky)
Bullet the blue sky (Sky)
Bullet the blue (Sky)
Bullet the blue (Sky)
[Verse 2]
In the locust wind
Comes a rattle and hum
Jacob wrestled the angel
And the angel was overcome
You plant a demon seed
You raise a flower of fire
I see them burnin' crosses
See the flames, higher and higher
[Chorus]
(Sky) Ooh
(Sky) Ooh
Bullet the blue sky (Sky)
Bullet the blue sky (Sky)
Bullet the blue (Sky)
Bullet the blue (Sky)
(Yeah, alright, I want you)
[Verse 3]
Suit and tie comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colours of a royal flush
And he's peelin' off those dollar bills
Slappin' 'em down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
I can see those fighter planes
[Verse 4]
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
Through the valleys and the quiet city streets
We take the staircase to the first floor
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
A man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside is America
Outside is America
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
So I'm back in my hotel room
With John Coltrane and A Love Supreme
And in the next room I hear some woman scream out
That her lover's turning off, turning on the television
And I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues
And a preacher on the Old Time Gospel Hour
Stealing money from the sick and the old
Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister
I feel a long way from the hills of San Salvador
Where the sky is ripped open and the rain pours through a gaping wound
Pelting the women and children
Pelting the women and children
Who run, who run
Into the arms
Of America
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All I Want Is You |
[Verse 1]
You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want
Your story to remain untold
[Chorus]
But all the promises we made
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
You say you'll give me
Eyes in the moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
[Chorus]
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
[Verse 4]
You say you want
Your love to work out right
To last with me through the night
[Verse 5]
You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold
[Chorus]
All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
[Outro]
You, all I want is
You, all I want is
You, all I want is
You
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