Rock's Hottest Ticket

U2 Rock's Hottest Ticket Lyrics
1.Where the Streets Have no Name

(Yeah)

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, yeah
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, yeah
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

(Pick it up!)

Ohhh....Ohhh...Ohhh...
Ohhh..Oh...

Ohhh....Ohhh...Ohhh...
Ohhh..Oh...

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

Bono: 'Why, thank you.'

It's all I can do
Is to go there with you

Bono: 'Thank you!'


2.I Will Follow

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
Walkaway, walkaway...I will follow
Walkaway, walkaway,
Walkaway, walkaway...I will...follow

Your eyes make a circle
Your eyes make a circle
I see you when I go in there
But it's your eyes
But it's your eyes
But it's your eyes
(Hey! Go!)
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
I will...follow
I will follow
I will...follow

Bono: 'Thank you, God bless you!'


3.Trip Through Your Wires

In the distance
She saw me coming 'round
I was calling out
I was calling out

Still shaking
Still in pain
You put me back together again
I was cold and you clothed me honey
I was down and you lifted me honey

Angel
Angel or devil
I was thirsty
And you wet my lips

You, I'm waiting for you
You, you set my desire
I trip through your wires

Bono: 'Well, still can't play the harmonica real good.'

I was broken, bent out of shape
I was naked in the clothes you made
Lips were dry, throat like rust
You gave me shelter from the heat and the dust
No more water in the well
No more water, water

Angel
Angel or devil
I was thirsty
And you wet my lips

You, I'm waiting for you
You, you set my desire
I trip through your wires

(All I need...All I need...)

Thunder, thunder on the mountain
There's a rain cloud in the desert sky
In the distance she saw me coming 'round
I was calling out
I was calling out

Bono: 'Thank you!'


4.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Bono:'Well, the last few weeks have been really something for
U2.
We've seen our record go to the top of the American charts. Even
Time
magazine gone and put us on the gover, yeah. And you know, even
though
we've worked for this, worked hard for this for the last few
years, it was
never our ambition necessarily to be number one, or to be on the
cover of
Time magazine. I don't know about you, but I feel good about the
fact that...
I still haven't found what I'm looking for.'

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

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

Bono: 'People dancing to a U2 song, I don't believe this!'

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well yes I'm still running

You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

(Yeah, sing it!)

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for...

(Yeah, Exodus!)

Exodus, moving up...
Alright, everything's alright
Everything's alright, yeah, yeah...

Bono: 'Thank you!'


5.MLK

Sleep
Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized
If the thunder cloud
Passes rain
So let it rain
Rain down on him
So let it be
So let it be

Sleep
Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized
If the thundercloud
Passes rain
So let it rain
Let it rain
Rain on him


6.The Unforgettable Fire

Bono:'Some fires you can't put out. This is The Unforgettable
Fire.'

Ice
Your only rivers run cold
These city lights
They shine as silver and gold
Dug from the night
Your eyes as black as coal

Walk on by
Walk on through
Walk 'til you run
And don't look back
For here I am

Carnival
The wheels fly and the colors spin
Through alcohol
Red wine that punctures the skin
Face to face
In a dry and waterless place

Walk on by
Walk on through
So sad to beseige your love so head on
Stay this time
Stay tonight in a lie
I'm only asking but I...
Think you know
Come on take me away
Come on take me home
Come on take me home
Home again

(Home again)

And if the mountain should crumble
Or disappear into the sea
Not a tear, no not I

Stay in this time
Stay tonight in a lie
I'm only asking but I...
Think you know
Stay in this time
Stay tonight
Ever after, this love in time
And if you save your love
Save it all

Well don't push me too far
Yeah, don't push me too far
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight...


7.Bullet the Blue Sky

In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
You see them driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly, a red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below

Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue

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
See them burning crosses
See the flames higher and higher

Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue

(Yeah)

So this guy comes up to me, see
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he's slapping down those dollar bills
One hundred, two hundred
And I see alot of faces
Maybe 18,000 faces
And president Regan comes up to me...
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
And through the alleys of a quiet city street
We take the staircase to the first floor
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
As a man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside it's America
It's Chicago...yeah!

So anyway...
Cutting 'cross the fields
Cutting 'cross the field and the little side and the valleys
We see the rain pour through a gaping wound
We see it pelting the women and children
Pelting the women and children
Who run...who run...
Into the arms
Of America


8.Running to Stand Still

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was
Lying still
Said I gotta do something
About where I'm going, yeah

Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night
Singing ha, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day
Ha la la de day

Sweet the sin
Bitter taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out

You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

You know I took the poison
From the poison stream
Then I floated out of here
Singing...ha la la la de day
Ha la la la de day
Ha la la de day
Ha la la de day...

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings to me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging
She is raging
And a storm blows up in her eyes
She will...

Suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand...

Still.

She's running...
She's running...
I'm running...
She's running to stand still
She's running...


9.Exit

Bono:'Story about a religious man...who became a very dangerous
man...
when he misunderstood...the hands of love.'

You know he got the cure
You know he went astray
He used to stay awake
To drive the dreams he had away
He wanted to believe
In the hands of love
Hands of love

His head it felt heavy
As he cut across the land
A dog started crying
Like a broken hearted man
In the howling wing
In the howling wind

He went deeper into black
Deeper into white
He sees the stars shining
Like nails in the night
He felt the healing
Healing, healing
Healing hands of love
Like stars shining from above

His hand in his pocket
His finger on the steel
The pistol weighed heavy
His heart he could feel
Was beating, beating
Beating, beating oh my love
Oh my love, oh my love
Oh my love

Saw the hands that build
Can also pull down
Even the hands of love
Even the hands of love

Gloria...'G' 'L' 'O' 'R' 'I' 'A'


10.In God's Country

Desert sky
Dream beneath a desert sky
The rivers run but soon run dry
We need new dreams tonight

Desert rose
Dreamed I saw a desert rose
Her dress torn in ribbons and in bows
Like a siren she calls to me

Sleep comes like a drug
In God's Country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses
In God's Country

Set me alight
We'll punch a hole right through the night
Everyday the dreamers die
To see what's on the other side

She is liberty
And she comes to rescue me
Hope, faith, her vanity, yeah
The greatest gift is gold

Sleep comes like a drug
In God's Country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses
In God's Country

(One! Two! Three!)

Naked flame
She stands with a naked flame
I stand with the sons of Cain
Burned by the fire of love
Burned by the fire of love


11.Sunday Bloody Sunday

Bono:'This is a song we sing in the hope that one day, we may
never have to
sing it again. It's a song about our country. It's called Sunday
Bloody Sunday.'

I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes
Make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long...
Tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across a dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
Puts my back up
My back up against the wall

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And this battle's yet begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
A trench is dug within our hearts
And brothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long...
Tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...
Tonight...tonight...
Tonight...tonight...

Bono: 'Yep! When you leave this building, you might see some
people from
Amnesty International. These are good people. Amnesty
International's a
good thing. If we want to say no to torture, if we want to say
no to the false
imprisonment of prisioners of conscience, sing...'

No more!
Sing, no more!
No more!
No more!
No more!
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your blood shot eyes
Wipe your tears away

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

(We're so sick of it!)

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction, TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Bono: 'Play to the king, what Jesus sung.'

Bono: 'Thank you very much.'

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday


12.Bad

Bono:'This is...this is a song about the city we grew up in. A
song about
Dublin city. And a song about a drug called heroin that's
tearing our city in
two...that's tearing the...the heart out of the city of
Dublin...tearing the heart
out of the city of Chicago. Rich people stuff dollars in the
back of their
pocket while poor men lie in gutters with needles stuck in their
arms. Screw
them, I say. This is a song about a friend of mine who was given
on his 21st
birthday enough heroin into his bloodstream to kill him. This is
a song called
Bad.'

If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, you know 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
Through the rain

If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the night
To the day
Into the half-light
Through the flame

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
I'm not sleeping

(Shhhhh)

If they should ask, well maybe they'd
Tell me what I should 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
Separation
Condemnation
In temptation
Revelation
Isolation
Desolation
Isolation
Let it go

And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade....fade...
Fade away...

Not fade away, no, no
Not fade away

I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
I'm not sleeping

Goodbye Rudy Tuesday
Who's gonna hang a name on you
Goodbye Rudy Tuesday
Who's gonna hang a name on you
Goodbye Rudy Tuesday
Who's gonna hang a name on you

Ohh I'm pleased to meet you
I hope you guess my name
Oh yeah, I'm pleased ot meet you
I hope you guess my name
Oh yeah (sleep on it)

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who's gonna hang a name on you
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who's gonna hang a name on you

Let it go
And so (fade away)
Let it go
(And so fade away)

Bono: 'Thank you.'


13.October

October
Trees are stripped bare
From all they wear
What do I care

October
Kingdoms rise
And kingdoms fall
But you go on...and on...
And on...
You go on
You go on...


14.Springhill Mining Disaster

Lyrics:Peggy Seeger
Music:Peggy Seeger

Bono:'Like to...I'd like to try a song that I think we've only
played once
before, so. This is a city that a...a lot of Irish people came
to this city, right?
So this time...this Irish...these Irish people came as rock and
roll band, okay?
So...but this is a folk song. It's like...the Irish kinda' hold
America in a very
special place because, for over a hundred years or more, Irish
have come over
here to find work and find a future. And they brouught with them
songs, old
Irish folk songs that became old American folk songs. And, I
hope maybe
we'd leave behind some songs one day. This is a song written by
Peggy
Seeger. It's a song...I wished I'd heard this song on the raidio
during the
miners' strike in England a few years ago. This is called
Springhill Mining Disaster.'

In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal, and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky
Roads--

Bono: 'Shut up for a second, will you? Stop whistling 'cause I'm
not in the
Beatles, okay? It's U2 here.'

In the town of Springhill
They don't sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roll
When the earth is restless
Miners die

Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal

Listen to the shouts of the black faced miner
Listen to the call of the rescue team
We have no water, light or bread
So we're living on songs and hope instead
Living on songs and hope instead

In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal, and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky
Roads that never saw sun nor sky

In the town of Springhill
Don't sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roll
When the earth is restless
Miners die

Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal

Bono: 'Thanks for your patience. Thank you.'


15.New Year's Day

Bono:'This is a song we wrote for Lech Walesa and the solidarity
people of
Poland. God bless you, thanks.'

Bono:'New Year's Day.'

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 world is travelled in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper 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

Bono: 'Begin again!'

I will be with you again
I will be with you again
I will be with you again
I will be with you again


16.Pride (In The Name Of Love)

Bono:'This is a song we we sing...we sing...we sing for the
Reverend Martin
Luther King Junior. And we remember the Chicago Peace Museum, a
very
good thing.'

Bono:'Pride!'

One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

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

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took his life
They could not take his pride

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

Bono: 'You know, when we came through here on the Conspiracy of
Hope
tour, I could just feel something happening. People in offices
and factories
and schools and artists and everybody... just kinda waking up or
something.
It's great. And I remember, I think we did five dates, five or
six dates. But I
remember very much Chicago. One, beause I think...I think U2
played well
that night, that it was good. And the other because...you're so
noisy.'

Bono: 'In the name of love!'

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...

Bono: 'Thank you, God bless you, goodnight! Thank you, thank you
very
much.'


17.Mothers of the Disappeared

Midnight, our sons and daughters
Were cut down, taken from us
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat

In the wind we hear their laughter
In the rain we see their tears
We hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat

Night hangs like a prisoner
Stretched over black and blue
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat

In the trees our sons stand naked
Through the walls our daughters cry
See their tears in the rainfall


18.With or Without You

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I'll wait for you

Sleight of hand and a twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

You give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body bruised, she got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you

Yeah, we'll shine like stars in the summer night
We'll shine like stars in the winter night
Oh, in the winter night...

We'll shine like stars in the summer night
We'll shine like stars in the winter night

Love, love will tear us apart...again
Love, love will tear us apart...again
Love, love will tear us apart...again
Love, love will tear us apart...again

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you


19.Gloria

And I try to sing this song
I...I try to stand up
But I can't find my feet
I try, I try to speak up
But only in you I'm complete

Gloria...in te domine
Gloria...exultate
Gloria...Gloria
Oh my Lord, yeah, loosen my lips

And I try to sing this song
I...I try to get in
But I can't find the door
The door is open
You're standing there
You let me in

Gloria...in te domine
Gloria...exultate
Oh my Lord, if I had anything
Anything at all
I'd, I'd give it to you
I, well I'd give it to you
To you
give it to you
For you

Bono: 'Adam Clayton!'

Bono: 'This is The Edge.'

Bono: 'Larry Mullen Junior, and Gloria.'

Gloria...Gloria...
Gloria...Gloria...
Gloria...in te domine
Gloria...Gloria...
Gloria...Gloria...
Gloria...in te domine
Gloria...Gloria...

Bono: 'Thank you.'


20.40

Bono:'This is a song that...when were we, when were we--when we
were
being thrown out of the studio on our third LP, on the War LP,
we're being,
we're being thrown out of the studio, we had I think, we, we
spent 10 minutes
writing this next song, 10 minutes recording it, 10 minutes
mixing it, 10
minutes playing it back, and that's nothing to do with why it's
called 40.'

I waited patiently for the Lord
He inclined and heard my cry
He lift me up out of the pit
Out of the miry clay

I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song

How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long...how long...how long...
How long...to sing this song

You set my feet upon a rock
You made my footsteps firm
Many will see
Many will see and hear

I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song

Bono: 'You sing it.'

How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long...how long...how long...
How long...to sing this song

Bono: 'Thank you good night.'

How long to sing this song?

Bono: 'Good night, God bless you'

(How long...to sing this song...)