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...

Wey hey hey, baby hang on
Wey hey hey, baby hang on
Empty heart, beat tight as a drum set
Empty love, she'd shine like a song
Wey hey hey, baby hang on (to anything)


Our love shines like rain
In those spanish eyes
Spanish eyes


Wey hey hey, here she comes
She comes in colors
You know she gonna turn the daylight on
'cause i love the way you talk to me
And i love the way you walk on me
And i need you more
Oh, than you need me


Our love shines like rain
In those spanish eyes
Spanish eyes


I'll cross the world for green and gold
But it's those spanish eyes
That get me home...home again


Wey hey hey, baby hang on
Wey hey hey, you know that
The night is young
Dazzled by lights that shine in your eyes
I'm standing in the shadows
And 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, hang on
Wey hey hey, baby hang on, hang on
'cause i love the way you talk to me
And i love the way you're mean to me
And i need you

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

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name


I want to feel sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear
Without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name


Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when i go there
I go there with you
It's all i can do


The city's aflood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name


Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when i go there
I go there with you
It's all i can do
Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and i see love
See our love turn to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when i go there
I go there with you
It's all i can do

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 he won't tell me his name


I have a heart, a heart that's beating inside
When i was three i thought the world revolved around me
I was wrong
And so i 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

My love she throws me like a rubber ball
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
She won't catch me or break my fall
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Baby's got blue skies up ahead
But in this i'm a rain cloud
You know she likes a dry kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing


I'm losing you
Hey hey hey, i'm losing you yeah
Ain't love the sweetest thing


I wanted to run but she made me crawl
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw
Oh oh, the sweetest thing
You know i got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her
Mine is a blind 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
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh, yeah


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 up ahead
And in this i'm a rain cloud
You know we got a stormy kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing

It was a cold and wet december day
When we touched the ground at jfk
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


Soul love...this love won't let me go
So long...angel of harlem


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


Soul love...this love won't let me go
So long...angel of harlem
Angel of harlem


She says it's heart...heart and soul...
Yeah yeah...(yeah)
Yeah yeah...(right now)


Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded you lost your way
Through the side streets and the alleyway
Like a star exploding in the night
Falling to the city in broad daylight
An angel in devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an angel
Yeah yeah...angel of harlem


Angel...angel of harlem...
[repeat and fade]

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

Hearts gone astray
Keeping up when they go
I went away
Just when you needed me so
You won't regret
I'll come back begging you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew
Yeah


Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here i stand was my
Everlasting love


Need you by my side
Come and be my bride
You'll never be denied
Everlasting love


From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got
Everlasting love


This love will last forever
This love will last forever


Hearts gone astray
Keeping up when they go
I went away
Just when you needed me so
You won't regret
I'll come back begging you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew
Yeah...


When love's river flows
No one really knows
'til someone's there to show the
Way to lasting love


Like the sun it shines
Endlessly it shines
You always will be mine
Eternal love


Whatever love went wrong
Ours would still be strong
We'd have our own
Everlasting love


This love will last forever
This love will last forever


Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here i said was my
Everlasting love


Need you by my side
Come and be my pride
Never be denied
Everlasting love


From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got


Everlasting love
[repeat until end]

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]