U2 - Songs of Innocence Album Lyrics

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The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)


I was chasing down the days of fear
Chasing down a dream before it disappeared
I was aching to be somewhere new
Your voice was all I heard
I was shaking from a storm in me
Haunted by the specters that we had to see
Yeah, I wanted to be the melody,
Above the noise, above the hurt.


I was young, not dumb
Just wishing to be blinded
By you, brand new
And we were pilgrims on our way


I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred
Heard a song that made some sense out of the world
Everything I ever lost now has been returned
The most beautiful sound I ever heard.


We've got language so we can't communicate
Religion so I can love and hate
Music so I can exaggerate my pain,
And give it a name


I was young, not dumb
Just wishing to be blinded
By you, brand new
And we were pilgrims on our way


I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred
Heard a song that made some sense out of the world
Everything I ever lost, now has been returned
In the most beautiful sound I ever heard.


We can hear you
we can hear you
We can hear you


I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred I get so many things I don't deserve All the stolen voices will someday be returned The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard

And your voices will be heard And your voices will be heard

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Every Breaking Wave


Every breaking wave on the shore
Tells the next one there'll be one more
And every gambler knows that to lose
Is what you're really there for
Summer I was fearless
Now I speak into an answer phone
Like every fallen leaf on the breeze
Winter wouldn't leave it alone, alone


If you go?
If you go your way and I go mine
Are we so?
Are we so helpless against the tide?
Baby every dog on the street
Knows that we're in love with defeat
Are we ready to be swept off our feet
And stop chasing every breaking wave


Every sailor knows that the sea
Is a friend made enemy
And every shipwrecked soul knows what it is
To live without intimacy
I thought I heard the captain's voice
It's hard to listen while you preach
Like every broken wave on the shore
This is as far as I could reach


If you go?
If you go your way and I go mine
Are we so?
Are we so helpless against the tide?
Baby every dog on the street
Knows that we're in love with defeat
Are we ready to be swept off our feet
And stop chasing every breaking wave?


The sea knows where all the rocks
Are drowning is no sin
You know where my heart is
The same place that yours has been
We know that we fear to win
And so we end before we begin
Before we begin


If you go?
If you go your way and I go mine
Are we so?
Are we so helpless against the tide?
Baby every dog on the street
Knows that we're in love with defeat
Are we ready to be swept off our feet
And stop chasing every breaking wave

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California (There is No end To Love)


Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara
Barbara, Santa Barbara


California, then we fell into the shining sea
The weight that drags your heart down
Well, that's what took me where I need to be
Which is here
Out on Zuma
Watching you cry like a baby
California, at the dawn you thought would never come
But it did
Like it always does


All I know
And all I need to know is there is no end to love


I didn't call you
A risk can scare a thought away
Everyone's a star in our town
It's just your light gets dimmer if you have to stay
In your bedroom
In a mirror
Watching yourself cry like a baby
California, blood orange sunset brings you to your knees
I've seen for myself, there's no end to grief
That's how I know


That's how I know
And why I need to know that there is no end to love
All I know and all I need to know is there is no end to love


(Guitar solo)

All I know
And all I need to know is there is no end to love
We come and go
Stolen days you don't get back
Stolen days are just enough

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Song for Someone


You've got a face not spoiled by beauty
I have some scars from where I've been
You've got eyes that can see right through me
You're not afraid of anything they've seen
I was told that I would feel nothing the first time
I don't know how these cuts heal
But in you, I've found a rhyme


If there is a light
You can't always see
And there is a world
We can always be
If there is a dark
That we shouldn't doubt
And there is a light
Don't let it go out


And this is a song, song for someone
This is a song, song for someone


You let me into a conversation
A conversation only we could make
You break and enter my imagination
Whatever's in there it's yours to take
I was told I'd feel
Nothing the first time
You were slow to heal
But this could be the night


If there is a light
You can't always see
And there is a world
We can't always be
If there is a dark
Within and without
And there is a light
Don't let it go out


And this is a song, song for someone
This is a song, song for someone


And I'm a long way
From your hill of Calvary And I'm a long way
From where I was and where I need to be
If there is a light you can't always see
And there is a world we can always be
If there is a kiss I stole from your mouth
And there is a light, don't let it go out

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Iris (Hold Me Close)


The star
That gives us light
Has been gone for a while
But it's not an illusion
The ache
In my heart
Is so much a part of who I am
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years to get here
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years, a thousand years


Hold me close, hold me close and don't let me go
Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know
Hold me close the darkness just lets us see
Who we are
I've got your life inside of me


Iris... Iris...


Once we are born, we begin to forget
The very reason we came
But you
I'm sure I've met
Long before the night the stars went out
We're meeting up again


Hold me close, hold me close and don't let me go
Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know
Hold me close, the darkness just lets us see
Who we are
I've got your life inside of me


Iris... Iris...


The stars are bright but do they know
The universe is beautiful but cold


You took me by the hand
I thought that I was leading you
But it was you made me your man
Machine
I dream
Where you are
Iris standing in the hall
She tells me I can do it all
Iris wakes to my nightmares
Don't fear the world it isn't there


Iris playing on the strand
She buries the boy beneath the sand
Iris says that I will be the death of her
It was not me


Iris... Iris...

Free yourself, to be yourself if only you could see yourself
Free yourself, to be yourself if only you could see...

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Volcano


The world is spinning fast tonight
You can hurt yourself tryin' to hold on
To what you used to be
I'm so glad the past is all gone?
Been out in the wild
Been out in the night
Been out of your mind
Do you live here or is this a vacation?


Volcano, you don't wanna, you don't wanna know.
Volcano
Something in you wants to blow
Volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know


Your eyes were like landing lights
They used to be the clearest blue
Now you don't see so well
The future's gonna land on you


Been out in the wild
Been out in the night
Been out of your mind
Do you live here or is this a vacation?


Volcano, you don't wanna, you don't wanna know.
Volcano
Something in you wants to blow
Volcano
You're on a piece of ground above a volcano


You were alone
Now you're not alone
You were alone
But now
YOU ARE ROCK 'N ROLL
YOU AND I ARE ROCK 'N ROLL
YOU ARE ROCK 'N ROLL
YOU AND I ARE ROCK 'N ROLL


Volcano, you don't wanna, you don't wanna know.
Volcano
Something in you wants to blow
Volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know.
You're on a piece of ground above a volcano

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Raised By Wolves


Face down on broken street
There's a man in the corner in a pool of misery
I'm in a white van as a red sea covers the ground
Metal crash I can't tell what it is
But I take a look and now I'm sorry I did.
5:30 on a Friday night 33 good people cut down


I don't believe anymore
I don't believe anymore


Face down on a pillow of shame
There are some girls with a needle trying to spell my name
My body's not a canvas
My body's now a toilet wall


I don't believe anymore
I don't believe anymore


Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
Raised by wolves
We were raised by wolves
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
If I open my eyes,
You disappear


Boy sees his father crushed under the weight
Of a cross in a passion where the passion is hate.
Blue mink Ford, I'm gonna detonate and you're dead
Blood in the house,
Blood on the street
The worst things in the world are justified by belief
Registration 1385-WZ


I don't believe anymore
I don't believe anymore

Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
Raised by wolves
We were raised by wolves
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
If I open my eyes,
You disappear

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Cedarwood Road


I was running down the road
The fear was all I knew
I was looking for a soul that's real
Then I ran into you
And that cherry blossom tree
Was a gateway to the sun
And friendship once it's won
It's won... it's one


Northside just across the river to the Southside
That's a long way here
All the green and all the gold
The hurt you hide, the joy you hold
The foolish pride that gets you out the door
Up on Cedarwood Road, on Cedarwood Road


Sleepwalking down the road
Not waking from these dreams
'Cause it's never dead it's still in my head
It was a warzone in my teens
I'm still standing on that street
Still need an enemy
The worst ones I can't see
You can... you can


Northside just across the river to the Southside
That's a long way here
All the green and all the gold
The hurt you hide, the joy you hold
The foolish pride that sends you back for more
Up on Cedarwood Road, on Cedarwood Road


If the door is open it isn't theft
You can't return to where you've never left
Blossoms falling from a tree they cover you and cover me
Symbols clashing, bibles smashing
Paint the world you need to see
Sometimes fear is the only place we can call home
Cedarwood Road


A HEART THAT IS BROKEN
IS A HEART THAT IS OPEN

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Sleep Like A Baby Tonight


Morning, your toast, your tea and sugar
Read about the politician's lover
Go through the day like knife through butter
Why don't you
You dress in the colours of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folder on the kitchen chair


You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like someone else's suicide
You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight


Dreams,
It's a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there's no daylight, there's no healing


You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight


Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else's pain


You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams take a flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight

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There Is Where You Can Reach Me Now


Soldier soldier
We signed our lives away
Complete surrender
The only weapon we know
Soldier soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier this is where you can reach me now


We come from an ancient place
Beyond what we can see
We've come to colonise your night
And steal your poetry


Old man knows that I never listen
So how could I have something to say
Old man knows how to cheat ambition
You don't lose if you don't play


1, 2, 3, 4, was enough


Soldier soldier
We signed our lives away
Complete surrender
The only weapon we know
Soldier soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier this is where you can reach me now


On a double decker bus
Into College Square
If you won't let us in your world
Your world just isn't there


Old man says that we never listen
We shout about what we don't know
We're taking the path of most resistance
The only way for us to go


hup, 2, 3, 4, was enough


Soldier soldier
We signed our lives away
Complete surrender
The only weapon we know
Soldier soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier this is where you can reach me now


This is the site
This is the reason
This is where you can reach me now
This is the time
This is the number
This is where you can reach me now

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The Trouble


Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control


You think it's easier
To put your finger on the trouble
When the trouble is you
And you think it's easier
To know your own tricks
Well it's the hardest thing you'll ever do


I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me and then hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you're not my troubles anymore


Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control


Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control


You think it's easier
To give up on the trouble
If the trouble is destroying you
You think it's easier
But before you threw me a rope
It was the one thing I could hold on to


I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me then hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you're not my troubles anymore


Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control


Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control


God know it's not easy
Taking on the shape of someone else's pain
God now you can see me
I'm naked and I'm not afraid
My body's scared and I'm not ashamed


Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control


Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control