U2 : Wide Awake in America

Rock / Ireland
(1985 - Island Records)
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Lyrics

1. BAD (LIVE VERSION)

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
Oh ooh, oh ooh, oh ooh
Oh ooh, oh ooh, oh ooh
So let it go, and so fade away
Let it go, and so fade away
Wide awake, I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake
I'm not sleeping

If you should ask, then maybe they
Tell you what I would say
True colours fly in blue and black
Bruised, silken sky and burning flag
Colours crash collide in bloodshot eyes
Oh ooh, oh ooh, oh ooh
If I could you know I would
If I could I would let it go

Desperation, Dislocation
Separation, Condemnation
Revelation, Intemptation
Isolation, Desolation
Let it go, and so fade away
Let it go, and so fade away
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


2. A SORT OF HOMECOMING (LIVE VERSION)

And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance.

And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, 'desire' time
And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape.

On borderland we run.
I'll be there, I'll be there tonight
A high-road, a high-road out from here.

The city walls are all come down
The dust a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields that once
Gave no resistance.

And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill as the valleys explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of it's own.

O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say I
O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say I

Oh, oh on borderland we run
And still we run, we run and don't look back
I'll be there, I'll be there
Tonight, tonight

I'll be there tonight, I believe
I'll be there so high
I'll be there tonight, tonight.

Oh com-away, I say, o com-away, I say.

The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz.
No spoken words, just a scream
Tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again tonight.

And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance.
Oh, don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight at last I am coming home.
I am coming home.


3. THE THREE SUNRISES

Spirit of the rising sun lift me up
Hold me there and never let me fall
Love me till I die, my heart won't wait
Soon I will be loved...

In this love song, love
Love song, love song

Hey, hey, love won't find
Find its own way home

In this a love song, love
Love, love song

Sun shine, sun shine on me
Sun shine, sun shine on me

In this love song, love
Love song, love song

Hey, hey, love won't find
Find its own way home

In this love song, love song
Love song, love song
Sun shine on me
Bring it through to my heart
I would give you everything
I will give you my desire

Sun shine, sun shine on me
Sun shine, sun shine on me


4. LOVE COMES TUMBLING

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
I'm 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

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