Medium, Rare & Remastered

U2 Medium, Rare & Remastered Lyrics
1.Levitate

It's in your voice
I can feel it I can tell
It's in your voice
Has me ringing me like a bell
Peace of mind
Peace comes dropping slow
I'm in the mind to let go of control
Spirit come on down
No I'm not coming down

In the backstreets
In the backstreets of our love
Through the locked doors
Deep down deep down is not enough
Spirit come on down no I'm not coming down

Who can stop us now
It's much too late
Can't slow us down
We can't hesitate
I want a love that's hard
As hard as hate
Levitate

To be the bee
To be the bee and the flower
Before the sweetness
Before the sweetness turns to sour
When freedom comes
Freedom has a scent
It's like the top of a new born baby's head
Baby we can taste it
You and I

Spirit come on down
No I'm not coming down

Who can stop us now
Who could make us wait
Who could slow us down
Make us hesitate
I want a love that's hard
As hard as hate
Levitate

Lift me up

Spirit come on down
No I'm not coming down
Spirit come on down
No I'm not coming down


2.Love You Like Mad

Nothing worth takin', so I never really took
Nothing was shaking but baby, you really shook
No one was waking until you kept me up
If your heart was breaking, you know, I won't see you stuck

The pain never felt so good
To feel so bad

I love you
I love you like mad
I love you
I love you like mad

No one worth knowing has ever known a thing
No one who knew how could ever teach the world to sing
You are the only one I've ever listened to
So, don't wait for me to ask, tell me what to do

The pain never felt so good
To feel so bad

I love you
I love you like mad
Love you
I love you like mad
I Love
I Love you like mad

Don't worry, baby, if you're in the spotlight
I'll do the maximum time for you tonight
You know that we're not crazy
Well, maybe just a touch
Some sweet delight usher you rush
And some gets us close too much

I love you
I love you like mad
Love you
I love you like mad
Love you
Love you like mad
Love you
Love you like mad

Hey, hey
Love you, love you like mad
Love you, love you like mad
Love you, love you like mad
Love you, love you like mad
Love you, love you like mad


3.Smile

Lyricist:Simon Carmody, Adam Clayton, Paul David Hewson

Gravity is not pulling me
I won't be a picture with no sign
Decaying, I'm praying
You are my air but
I need the ground to kneel upon
And love can't be a song
I don't want to see you smile

I'm breaking it, taking it
I'm breaking it slowly in mind
I'm seeing it, freeing it
I know love is in this soul of mine
It's not in your eyes
I don't want
I don't want to see you smile

I started, lighthearted
It won't be easy like you said
I'm going, flowing
I'm leaving on the day of the dead
I will live again
You will live again
I don't want to see you smile

God knows it, knows me
Knows me, knows me
You sing, hear me love
Say it again, burnt out blind
The smoke machine is yours not mine
I don't want to see you smile

I will live again
You will live again
I just don't want to see you smile


4.Flower Child

(All you know, you don't know yet)

On the fifth day of may, she was breaking away
When the moon came and sat on your shoulder
She was still young, not yet highly strung
As you need to be when you get older
George was a street, when you first faced the feat
You put money on the color of the sky
Well the color of her voice left you there no choice
But to drink the Liffey dry

The seeds that you sow
You wanna watch them growing
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart

Here comes Holy Joe, now how would he know
How laughter can make a man cruel
It's fire on fire, and lovers conspire
To either a duet or duel
When it's fire on fire, the flames just get higher
The harder you work to put them out
Well you know that you're similar, sugar and weedkiller
Both heading north facing south

The seeds that you sow
You wanna watch them growing
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild...

(Hush)

What's on your breath is the fear of death
That makes such a man promiscuous
Your mouth was dry like when you were about to lie
And her lips are so luscious
You've seen it before, you hurled at her door
Like a dog when she needed a man
Now she aches and she breaks, and she takes
On the weight of your world, 'cause she almost can

The seeds that you sow
Well you wanna watch them growing
The wind, where will it blow
My flower child
Growing wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild...

The sky was steel grey, up on Appian Way
As the yellow hats dug up the road
Didn't hear what you said, as the lights turned red
On a love that should have stayed gold
Gold

Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart
Wild, you grow wild
You grow wild in my heart


5.Beautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experience

Lyricist:William Blake, Adam Clayton, David Evans, Paul David Hewson,
Larry Mullen

Hear the voice of the bard
Who, present, past and future sees
Whose ears have heard the holy word
That walked among the ancient trees

Calling the lapsed soul
And weeping in the evening dew
That might control the starry pole
And fallen, fallen light renew

Oh earth, oh earth return
Arise from out the dewy grass
Night is worn and the morn
Rises from the slumberous mass

Turn away no more
Why wilt thou turn away?
The starry floor, the watery shore
Is given thee till the break of day

Till the break of day
Till the break of day
Till the break of day
Till the break of day


6.Jesus Christ

Lyricist:Marlene Marti

One, two, three, four

Well Jesus was a man
Who traveled through the land
A hard working man and brave
Well he said to the rich 'Give your money to the poor'
For they layed Jesus Christ in his grave

Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
For they layed Jesus Christ is his grave

Well he went to the preacher
He went to the law
And told them all the same
He said sell all your jewelry and give it to the poor
For they layed Jesus Christ in his grave

Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
For they layed Jesus Christ is his grave

When Jesus came to town all the working folks around
Believed what he did say
Well the bankers and the preachers
They nailed him on a cross
For they layed Jesus Christ in his grave

And hard working people
They followed him around
They sung and shouted gay
Well the cops and the soldiers
They nailed him in the head
And they layed Jesus Christ in his grave

Oh, hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
For they layed Jesus Christ in his grave

Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
For they layed Jesus Christ is his grave

Well this song was written in New York City
A rich man, preacher and slave
Well if Jesus was to preach while he preached in Galilee
They would lay Jesus Christ in his grave
One, two, three, four

Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
For they layed Jesus Christ is his grave

Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
Hale, hallelujah
For they layed Jesus Christ is his grave

Amen Yeah yeah


7.Xanax And Wine

My cell is ringing, no ID
I want to know who's calling
My garden's overgrown
I go out on my belly crawling / (he's 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 a picture in a locket
Your face in my pocket
I take a pill to stop it

Save me, save me from myself
I know that you've been good to me
Now I need you not to be
Wake me, I feel like I've been asleep
I'm buying things I can't afford
I'm on a high diving board
Oh it's you that's keeping me dry
Xanax and wine

I'm going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
They're in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch 'em shadow box
Check the stocks, I'm in detox
Want the lot of what you've got
If what you've got can make this stop

All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to get right next to you
All I want is your picture in a locket
Your face in my pocket
I take a pill to stop it

Save me, save me from myself
I know that you've been good to me
Now I need you not to be
Wake me, I feel like I've been asleep
Try not to look so bored
You're buying things you can't afford
I got yours and I know you want mine
Xanax and wine

Don't you worry 'bout your mind
Thing is I worry all the time
Don't you worry you'll be fine
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
I'm documenting every detail
Every conversation
I'm not used to talking to somebody in their body
It's somebody in a body, it's somebody in a body
In a body there's somebody
Somebody in a body

Somebody, somebody, somebody
It's somebody... in a body
Somebody... in a body
It's somebody... in a body
There's somebody...


8.Native Son

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, David 'the Edge' Evans, Paul David Hewson, Jr.,
Laurence Mullen

Yeah, it's on the street, it's under your feet
It's everywhere but if you're looking for free
Don't look at me
My enemy became my country

On the run
Officer put down the gun
Native son
I never wanted to own one

Native son
Both of us want to be someone
It's so hard
Is it so hard for a native son to be free?

Tears falling from the sky, falling to the ground
Bullets start to fly
He's hurt, he's in the dirt
On my word

Don't want to run away
I'm safer in my father's place
I know that I can't stay
But if I stay, I know what's next

On the run
Officer put down the gun
Native son
I never wanted to own one

Native son
Both of us want to be someone
It's so hard
Is it so hard for a native son to be free?
Free

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Free

On the run
Officer put down the gun
Native son
I never wanted to own one

Native son
Both of us want to be someone
It's so hard
Is it so hard for a native son to be free?
Free, free


9.Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, David Evans, Paul Hewson, Laurence Mullen

Heat haze rising on hell's own hill
To wake up this morning is an act of will
Walk through the night to get here today
To bring your children, to give them away

Oh, oh, this cruel sun, is daylight never done?
Cruelty just begun to make a shadow of everyone
And if the rain came
And if the rain came now

Souls bent over without a breeze
Blankets on burning trees
I am sick without disease
Nobility on it's knees

And if the rain came
And if the rain came, now
Would it wash us all away on a wave of sorrow?
Wave, wave of sorrow

Where now the holy cities? Where are the ancient holy scrolls?
Where now Emperor Menelek and Queen of Sheba's gold?
You, my bride wear a crown, on your finger, precious stone
As every good thing now been sold

Son, of shepherd boy, now king
What wisdom can you bring?
What lyric could you sing?
Where is the music of the Seraphim?

And if the rain came
And if the rain came, now
Would it wash us all away, on a wave of sorrow?
Wave, on a wave of sorrow, wave

Blessed are the meek who scratch in the dirt
For they shall inherit what's left of the earth
Blessed are the kings who have left their thrones
They are blessed in this valley of dry bones

Blessed all of you with an empty heart
For you have nothing from which you cannot part
Blessed is the ego if it's all we got this hour
Blessed is the voice that speaks truth to power
Blessed is the sex worker's body sold tonight

She works for what she's got to save her children's life
Blessed are the deaf who cannot hear a scream
Blessed are the stupid who can dream
Blessed are the tin can, cardboard slums
And blessed is the spirit that overcomes


10.Neon Lights

Neon lights
Shimmering neon lights
And at the fall of night
This city's made of light

Neon lights
Shimmering neon lights
And at the fall of night
This city's made of light

Neon lights
Shimmering neon lights
And at the fall of night
This city's made of light

Neon lights
Shimmering neon lights
And at the fall of night
This city's made of light


11.Fast Cars

My cell is ringing
No ID
I need to know who's calling

My garden's 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

I'm going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
There in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch you shadow box
Check the stocks
I'm in detox
I want the lot of what you've got
What you've got can make this stop

All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to get 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

Child inside

Don't you worry 'bout your mind
Don't you worry 'bout your mind
Don't you worry 'bout your mind
Don't you worry 'bout your mind

You should worry 'bout the day
That the pain it goes away
You know I miss mine sometimes

The size is much too big

There is no fiction
That will truly fit the situation
I'm documenting every detail
Every conversation
Not used to talkin' to somebody in the body
Somebody in a body,
Somebody in a body


12.Always

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen

Here today, gone tomorrow
Crack the bone, get to the marrow
To be a bee and the flower
Before the sweetness turns to sour

What we have we're gonna keep always
What we've lost we don't need always
What is it that won't let you sleep always

Be the arrow and the target
Put your head over the parapet
Be uncool, yes, be awkward
Don't look in the obvious place
The soul needs beauty for a soul mate

Get down off your holy cloud always
God will not deal with the proud, always
Well, if you dream then dream out loud, always
Eternally yours, always

I want you, I want you, I want you

Here she come
Touching the other side
I wanted to be in love
I wanted to call
Hey, soon, soon

You say, come, you know yourself, always
Go, find yourself in someone else, always
And always wear a safety belt always
Wait for me, I'm running late, always
This is the moment that we share for always
Turning slowly into a prayer, always

Now and forever, for always
For always, for always, for always


13.Big Girls Are Best

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Paul Hewson, Mullen Larry

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, baby

As long as the night is colored
Blue and black
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

As long as you're on your knees
And she's not on her back
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Avenue Atlantico, 1702
She's cocoa butter baby, she's the glue
She's got the baby at her breast
She knows big girls are best

Mama mama mama

I'm gonna change like the weather
Hot to cold
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

She keeps it all together
She's got the mother load
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

She feels it, every sensation
She's got a smile like salvation
She's got a baby at her breast
She knows big girls are best

Oh, ma ma ma
Sexy mama ma
Sexy mama ma

Sexy mama ma
Sexy mama ma
Sexy mama ma
Mama mama mama

She's elliptical
Also political
All so spiritual
Not superficial

Yeah, she's tropical
Yes, she's illogical
Those little girls are a pest
Big girls are the best

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, baby

As long as the night is colored
Blue and black
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

As long as you're on your knees
And she's not on her back
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

She can taste every sensation
She's got a smile like salvation
She's got a baby, a baby at her breast
She walk like she talk, big girls are best, big girls

Mama mama mama
Sexy mama mama
Mama ma
Sexy mama mama mama ma

Sexy mama mama mama ma
Sexy mama mama mama
Ma mama


14.Summer Rain

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen

When you stop seeing beauty
You start growing old
The lines on your face
Are a map to your soul

When you stop taking chances
You'll stay where you sit
You won't live any longer
But it'll feel like it

I lost myself in the summer rain
I lost myself
I lost myself in the summer rain
In the summer rain

Tequila and orange
Jamaica and rum
At the Moreilla
Honey on my tongue

In a small boat on a generous sea
You let me be your enemy
Tiny hand with a grip on the world
Holding our breath now, diving for pearls

I lost myself in the summer rain
I lost myself
I lost myself in the summer rain
Oh oh, oh oh

Just as you find me, always I will be
A little bit too free with myself
Just as you find me, always I will be
A little bit too free with myself

I lost myself in the summer rain
I lost myself
Now there's no one else
In the summer rain

Raining down
It's raining down, it rain
Raining now
Raining now

Just as you find me, always I will be
A little bit too free with myself
Just as you find me, always I will be
A little bit too free with myself

(Cha cha cha)
It's not why you're running
It's where you're going
It's not what you're dreaming
But what you're gonna do

It's not where you're born
It's where you belong
It's not how weak
But what will make you strong


15.Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen

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, trashcan
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


16.All Because of You

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen

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 didn't 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
I'm 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

I'm alive, I'm being born
I just arrived, I'm 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


17.Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen

Tough, you think you've got the stuff
You're telling me and anyone
You're hard enough

You don't have to put up a fight
You don't 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 don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

We fight all the time
You and I that's alright
We're the same soul

I don't need, I don't need to hear you say
That if we weren't so alike
You'd like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can you hear me when I sing?
You're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me

Hey now
Still gotta let you know
A house does not make a home
Don't leave me here alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Sometimes you can't make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can't make it on your own


18.Yahweh

Lyricist:Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen

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, sing

Yahweh, yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Don't make a fist
Take this mouth
So quick to criticize
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss

Yahweh, yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is comin' up
The sun is comin' 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


19.Angels Too Tied To The Ground

What is it that keeps me back from you
What is it when I just can't get through
What is it when we've nothing left to do
But savor the mess that we tried

What is it when the clock just won't rewind
What is it when our love seems to stop time
I'm telling you
Waving a white flag
Baby got a white flag flying for you baby
Got a white flag, a white flag

Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground

And now it's only alive in my head
In my mind
All in my head, in my mind

Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground

Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground
Angels too tied to the ground


20.Saturday Night

Stood on his shadow
They always do
All he wanted to spoil the view
Of people and places
Second-hand faces
He saw but never knew

Look like a painting
A picture of you
Depending on your point of view
She laughed with the others
They call out her name
She smiled, she said
Goodbye

On a Saturday night
On a Saturday night
On a Saturday night
On a Saturday night
Saturday night
Saturday night

They met a streetlight
Though she never knew
All he wanted was to spoil the view
And just for a second
It felt like a year
He waited for her second tear

On a Saturday night
On a Saturday night
On a Saturday night
On a Saturday night
Saturday night
Satudray night

Can you soar any higher
If you can't let go
To save her in the fire
She won't say no

Downtown