U2's The Joshua Tree Lyrics

U2 and Families

2012-01-25T14:25:00.000-08:00

U2 songs about Mothers and Fathers

All good song writers tap their family tree for lyrical inspiration now and then. There's been plenty of popular songs that feature lyrics about parents and their children. A classic example is Cat Steven's Father and Son.

It's with no great surprise then that Bono has chosen to reveal insights to his feeling about his family in a few of U2's songs. Here's some thoughts about a selected few...

Mofo

Mofo was sixth single flogged from the supposedly terrible Pop, album the lyrics in part refer to Bono's beloved mother, whom he lost at the age of fourteen.

Mothers of the Disappeared

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, is a unique organization of Argentine women who have become human rights activists in order to achieve a common goal. For over three long decades, the Mothers have fought for the right to re-unite with their abducted children. It was this work that inspired Bono's lyrics.

Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own

The lyric was written by Bono as a tribute to his father, Bob Hewson, who died in 2001. Bono sang this at his funeral. In the video for the song it was prefaced with the following from Bono "My father worked in the post office by day and sang opera by night. We lived on the north side of Dublin in a place called Cedarwood Road. He had a lot of attitude. He gave some to me - and a voice. I wish I'd known him better." On Your Own song shares similar parental sentiments as found in Kite from the All That You Can't Leave Behind album.

Tommorrow

The October album was definitely Bono on channeling and challenging his spiritual side - Tomorrow sees him exploring his thoughts around his mother's death and the spectre of her possibly meeting Jesus.

The First Time

A song from the Grammy Award winning album, Zooropa, The first verse of this the First Time hints sentiments of falling in love for the first time or perhaps truly, madly, deeply falling for someone - the lyric "I have a lover, a lover like no other" suggests the later perhaps is true.

The second verse refers to the love of a brother who would do anything for his sibling - the word brother could easily stand in for friend here as well.

The final verse talks of the love between a father and son that perhaps has gone sour. Collectively these three different settings make for a great story and makes you wonder what kind of person is telling this story and how do those elements relate to one another? Indeed, there's almost a hint of the Prodigal Son story surrounding the entire fabric of the song.

I believe in Father Christmas

Written by Greg Lake, I Believe in Father Christmas with a view to making a critque about how Christmas had changed from being a celebration of peace on earth and goodwill to all men, into one huge and disgusting orgy or shopping.

Done with this page? Want to know more about some other U2 lyrics? Check out 10 U2 Love Songs.

Ten U2 Love Songs

2011-11-17T23:54:00.000-08:00

All You Need Is Love - 10 U2 Love Songs

The Beatles sang that All You Need Is Love and just about every band since has as well so it's no surprise that U2 have song a few songs that ponder the wondrousness of it all.

Here's a few songs that either feature the subject love in their lyrics or are clearly love songs.

Love is Blindness

A haunting tracking that closed the mighty body of work that was Achtung Baby - the lyrics suggest an quite desperate love where nothing else matters but that love - a deep play on the phrase love is blind but the neighbours aint joke perhaps?

When Love Comes to Town

Some men are afraid of love. They'd prefer to hit it and quit before they have to contend with their feelings. At least that's what this duet between Bono and B.B. King might leave you thinking....

Love Rescue Me

A desperate man calls out for love. It's a aching love lorn fellow that sings this ballad from Rattle and Hum.

Love And Peace Or Else

A rocker from U2 from the How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album, this is U2's Give Peace A Chance effort - it's basically Bono asking why can't we all just get along in peace and harmony with some peace loving mung beans thrown in for good measure. Or something.

The deluxe edition of the album has a liner note which says 'don't become a monster in order to defeat a monster' which I think sums up the lyrical intent behind the song and it ties in with Bono's Coexist mantra.

So really it's not a love song per say but one that promotes love?

So Cruel

Not all songs don't need to be of a happy kind of love. So Cruel's lyrics tell of a person in love with a person that is breaking their heart with their thoughtless ways. As I listen to the singer's lament, I can't help but feel some sorrow for them.

Hawkmoon 269

Allegedly 269 takes were required to record this song - the character seems to be a love drug addict and needs some love badly and Bono lists the ways he needs it.

Sweetest Thing

This U2 love song is definitely one inspired by real life events for Bono - it was written for his wife Alison as an apology for missing (or forgetting) her birthday during the recording of The Joshua Tree record. I wonder if Bono owed Alison another song after the featured picture of Bono above with the two bikini girls came out?

Originally featured as a U2 b-side on the Where the Streets Have No Name single, The Sweetest Thing was revamped and released as a single to support U2's first Greatest Hits album.

One Love

Magnificent

A strident, upbeat love song that celebrates the characters's love for his woman - or indeed possibly love for his god. That's a classic song writer's trick - making the lyrics open to interpretation helps increase the song's broad appeal amongst listeners.

The lyric "I was born I was born to be with you " is a nice romantic line to tell a woman - however the verse below is suggestive of praise to the character's creator.....

"I was born

I was born to sing for you  
I didn't have a choice
But to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to"

The First Time

The first verse of this song suggests sentiments of falling in love for the first time or perhaps truly, madly, deeply falling for someone - the lyric "I have a lover, a lover like no other" suggests the later perhaps is true - indeed that line would be a great compliment to any woman (or man!).

The second verse refers to the love of a brother who would do anything for his sibling - the word brother could easily stand in for friend here as well.

Unchained Melody

A love song made famous by the Righteous Brothers, this was covered by U2 as a b-side on the With or Without You single. My wife and I played it at our wedding so enough said!

There plenty of other U2 songs out there that refer to love or sing about it without saying the words - what are your favorites?

Sick of love and lust? Want to bite your teeth into something more serious? How about some U2 songs's with lyrics about nuclear politics?

"Mothers Of The Disappeared" Lyrics U2

2010-12-22T04:06:00.000-08:00

"Mothers Of The Disappeared" Lyrics U2

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, is a unique organization of Argentine women who have become human rights activists in order to achieve a common goal. For over three decades, the Mothers have fought for the right to re-unite with their abducted children. It was this work that inspired Bono's lyrics.

When U2 last played in Turkey, this song was a focus of the show.

Mothers Of The Disappeared Lyrics

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

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

Mothers of the Disappeared is from The Joshua Tree album.

Check out the lyrics to Where the Streets Have No Name

Get U2's Rose Bowl Concert available on DVD

2010-04-05T18:33:00.000-07:00

U2360° At The Rose Bowl will be released in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray by Mercury Records on June 7, and in the US on June 3, 2010.

You might recall the show was broadcast live on Youtube. Here's the set list.

Order the 2 disk DVD or the ">Blue Ray at Amazon.

U2360° At The Rose Bowl was the penultimate gig of last year's U2360° Tour in support of their Grammy nominated album No Line on The Horizon. The Rose Bowl performance was the band's biggest show of 2009 and U2's biggest ever US show, with a live audience in excess of 97,000.

The show was also streamed across seven continents via YouTube. The first ever live streaming of a full-length stadium concert, U2360° at the Rose Bowl had over 10 million views on the channel in one week.

Shot entirely in HD, the concert was filmed with 27 cameras and directed by Tom Krueger who had previously worked on U23D, the first live action 3D concert movie taken from U2's Vertigo Tour.

Available in standard and 2-disc deluxe DVD formats (see below), U2360° At The Rose Bowl will also be U2's first concert available in Blu-ray. The deluxe formats and the Blu-ray will feature a new documentary called Squaring the Circle: Creating U2360° with new interviews from U2, Paul McGuinness and the team behind the touring production.

The track listing of U2360° At The Rose Bowl is as follows:

Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Beautiful Day, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, No Line On The Horizon, Elevation, In A Little While, Unknown Caller, Until the End of the World, The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, Sunday Bloody Sunday, MLK, Walk On, One, Where The Streets Have No Name, Ultra Violet (Light My Way), With Or Without You, Moment Of Surrender.

Original Source: Songs of Ascent

U2 LA Rose Bowl Set List

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U2 Rose Bowl Set List, Hollywood Los Angeles California

Also played live across the internet via U2's Youtube channel to a gagillion people.

26th October 2000

In an attempt to be novel or up with the technology, this concert was streamed live across Youtube for free - this was U2's set list.

Celebrity Train spotting - Danny Devito, Paris Hilton, Dave Stewart, Alyssa Milano, Cindy Crawford. Bono did a shout out to famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin who was also present. Bono also wished The Edge's son, Levi, a happy birthday.

Bono called The Edge a 'Zen Presbyterian' and Adam, Clark Gable as he was often gone with the wind...

The Black Eyed Peas opening set was notable for GNR / Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash turning up to play a wild version of Sweet Child of Mine.

U2 Los Angeles Rose Bowl Set List: Breathe, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Beautiful Day (with a few lines from In God's Country), I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (The Edge played it with a capo on the 2nd fret, coda of Stand By Me, massive crowd singalong), Stuck In A Moment (acoustic guitar version), No Line On The Horizon, Elevation, In A Little While (Bono changed the lyrics to say space travel turns him on, song finished with last verse spoken by an astronaut in the International Space Station), Unknown Caller, Until the End of the World (frenetic Edge solo), The Unforgettable Fire (Edge pulls double guitar and piano duties), City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (stale remix version), Sunday Bloody Sunday, MLK (Martin Luther King tribute), Walk On (with Aung San Suu Kyi protesters on the stage wearing masks of her face, Never Walk Alone snippet at end).

Bono thanks LA, everyone on youtube.

Desmond Tutu recorded message urging us to all be one....

U2 Encore:

One, Amazing Grace (lead into) Where the Streets Have No Name, Ultraviolet (Light My Way), With or Without You, (Bono thanks a million people for their contribution to AIDS awareness and anti AIDS drug measures, he then asks everyone to turn on their cell phone lights to turn the stadium into the Milky Way) Moment of Surrender

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X and Q what will you do?

2009-10-15T23:25:00.000-07:00

Did you know U2 have not written any songs beginning with the letter X? Or Q?

U2 Houston Texas Concert Set List

2009-10-15T01:18:00.000-07:00

U2 Houston, Texas Set List

14th October 2009

U2 played their gig at the Reliant Stadium.

U2's Set List Breathe, Get On Your Boots, , Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Beautiful Day - Here Comes the Sun, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Stand By Me, Stuck In A Moment, No Line On The Horizon, Elevation, Your Blue Room (lyrics), Until the End of the World, The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix), Sunday Bloody Sunday, MLK, Walk On - You'll Never Walk Alone

U2 Encore: One, Amazing Grace, Where the Streets Have No Name, Ultraviolet, With or Without You (lyrics), Moment of Surrender

More U2 Set lists from the 360 Tour. Here's the Dallas Show song list.

U2 Dallas, Texas Set List

2009-10-13T01:31:00.000-07:00

U2 Dallas, Texas Set List

9th October 2009

U2 played their set list at Arlington's Cowboys Stadium which is the home to the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys. One Twitterer noted that when Bono did a shout out to them, some of the crowd booed. Tiger Woods apparently in attendance as well.

U2's Set List : Breathe, Get On Your Boots,, Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Beautiful Day - Blackbird, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Stand By Me, Stuck In A Moment, No Line On The Horizon, Elevation, Until the End of the World (lyrics), The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix), Sunday Bloody Sunday, MLK, Walk On

Break, then recorded message from Bishop Desmond Tutu.

Encore 1: One, Amazing Grace, Where the Streets Have No Name

Encore 2: Ultraviolet, With or Without You (lyrics), Moment of Surrender (lyrics)

More U2 Set lists from the 360 Tour.

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"Where The Streets Have No Name" Lyrics U2

2009-10-13T01:29:00.000-07:00

"Where The Streets Have No Name" Lyrics U2

Where the Streets Have No Name is one of U2's most enduring songs. The third single from the Joshua Tree. The lyrics have been said to reflect Bono's aid work in South Africa with a juxtaposition of the life in Belfast where one could tell another's religion by the area in which they lived. It is a fan favourite and played during nearly every concert by U2.

The lyric 'I see the dust cloud disappear without a trace' was once misheard as 'I see the toaster disappear without a trace". Go figure!

Where the Streets Have No Name Lyrics

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 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 cities a flood 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, see our love, see our love turn to rust And we're beaten and blown by the wind Blown by the wind When I got there, I go there with you It's all I can do

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Where the Streets have No Name Lyrics

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" Lyrics by U2

2009-10-13T01:28:00.001-07:00

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" Lyrics by U2

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is the second track from U2's album The Joshua Tree, and was released as the second single. It became the band's second #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 after "With or Without You", the first single from the album, and peaked at #6 in the UK. It was rereleased as a live version on the follow up album, Rattle and Hum.

The lyric, 'I believe in the Kingdom Come' was once heard as 'I believe in the Kingdom of Kong'...

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Lyrics:

I have climbed the 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

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
And my shame
All my shame
You know I believe it

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

Don't go away
I'll sing my love for you
Don't go away
Oh you know I love this place
Don't go away
I won't go without you baby
Don't go away
Don't go away

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With Or Without You Lyrics

2009-10-13T01:24:00.002-07:00

"With Or Without You" Lyrics by U2

"With or Without You" was the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It is arguably one of U2's most popular songs. Released as a single in March 1987, it became the group's first American Billboard #1 hit, spending three weeks at the top. The follow up single, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For was the follow up single and also become number one.

"With or Without You" Lyrics

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Slight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without 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

And 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's got me with nothing left to win
And nothing else 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

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Bullet the Blue Sky Lyrics

2009-10-13T01:24:00.001-07:00

"Bullet The Blue Sky" Lyrics U2

Bullet the Blue Sky is one of the U2's most overtly politically toned songs. U2 play the song nearly every concert with the performances often being used as a means to make refereces to the political issues of teh day. Typically, these have been in the form of comments critical of war and use guns or as the lyrics of the song suggest, American foreign policy.

Bono went on to use the lyrical reference to bullets in the sky in U2's big hit, Vertigo.

The line "In the locust wind
Comes a rattle and hum" was clearly the inspiration for the title of U2's follow up album to the Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum.

U2's Bullet the Blue Sky Lyrics:In the howling wind
Comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails
Into souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly a red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below

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

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

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

And this guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colours of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts as the children sleep
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 deep into saxophone
And through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside is America
Outside is America
America
See across the field
See the sky ripped open
See the rain coming through the gaping wound
Pelting the women and children who run into the arms of America

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Running to Standstill Lyrics

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"Running To Stand Still" Lyrics bu U2

The lyrics refer to issues of drug addiction e.g. suffer the needle chill.

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lying still
Said I got to do something
About where we're going
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain
Maybe run from the darkness in the night

Singing ha la la la de day
Ha la la la de day ha la la de day

Sweet the sin
Bitter the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out
You got to cry with out 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

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

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Red Hill Mining Town

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"Red Hill Mining Town" Lyrics U2

The song was initially intended to be the second single from the Joshua Tree album. However, the U2 later surmised they would be unable to play it live every night since the notes were too high for Bono to do every time. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" was released instead. The song was never played live, although it was soundchecked in November 1987.^{A music video for the song was filmed and directed byNeil Jordan, but was not released until it was included on the bonus DVD of the 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box reissue of The Joshua Tree.}

"Red Hill Mining Town" Lyrics U2

From father to son the blood runs thin
See faces frozen still against the wind
The seam is split, the coal face cracked
The lines are long, there's no going back
Through hands of steel and a heart of stone
Our labor day has come and gone

And you leave us holding on
In Red Hill Town, see the lights go down on
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to

The glass is cut, the bottle run dry
Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night
We're wounded by fear, injured in doubt
I can lose myself, you I can't live without

Yeah, you keep me holding on
In Red Hill Town, see the lights go down on
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
On to

We scorch the earth, set fire to the sky
We stoop so low to reach so high
A link is lost, the chain undone
We wait all day for the night to come
And it comes like a hunter, child

I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
Love slowly stripped away
Love has seen its better day
Hanging on
Lights go out on Red Hill
Lights go down on Red Hill
The lights go down on Red Hill Town
Lights go down on Red Hill

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In God's Country

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"In God's Country" U2 Lyrics

In God's Country was the fourth single from U2's The Joshua Tree Album

Lyrics:

Yeah

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
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
The greatest gift is gold

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

Naked flame
She stands with a naked flame
I stand with the sons ofCain

Burned by the fire of love
Burned by the fire of love

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U2's Trip Through Your Wires Lyrics

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"Trip Through Your Wires" Lyrics U2

Lyrics

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, you clothed me, honey
I was down, you lifted me, honey

Angel, angel or devil
I was thirsty and you wet my lips
You, I'm wating for you
You, you set my desire
I trip through your wires

I was broken, bent out of shape
I was naked in the clothes you made
My 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
All I need, all I need
All I need, all I need
All I need yeah yeah

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

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One Tree Hill Lyrics

2009-10-13T01:13:00.001-07:00

"One Tree Hill" is the ninth track and final single from U2's album, The Joshua Tree. The single was released exclusively in New Zealand in 1988 where it went to number one and was their first number one single there. The title of the song refers to One Tree Hill, a volcanic peak in Auckland, New Zealand. At the time of the song's release, a single Monterey pine tree stood on the hill. The tree was removed in 2000, 6 years after being chainsawed by a Māori activist protesting about some bullshit.

When U2 returned to Auckland in 2006, the song was played each night, with Bono noting the tree had not yet been replayed.

"One Tree Hill" Lyrics U2

We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill As the day begs the night for mercy Your sun so bright it leaves no shadows, only scars Carved into stone on the face of earth The moon is up over One Tree Hill We see the sun go down in your eyes You ran like a river oh, to the sea You run like a river runs to the sea And in our world a heart of darkness A firezone where poets speak their hearts Then bleed for it Jara sang his song a weapon In the hands of love You know his blood still cries from the ground It runs like a river, runs to the sea It runs like a river to the sea I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts While bullets rape the night of the merciful I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill We run like a river to the sea, run to the sea We run like a river to the sea And when it's raining, raining hard That's when the rain will break my heart Raining, raining hard, raining in your heart Raining, rain into your heart, raining Oh great ocean, oh great sea Run to the ocean, run to the sea

The real One Tree Hill:

Exit U2

2009-10-13T01:12:00.000-07:00

Exit's lyrics explore the dark impulses of a desperate man. At an Los Angeles U2 concert on November 18, 1987, Bono said of his verse "This is a song about a religious man who became a very dangerous man when he couldn't work out the mystery, on the hands of love."

Bono reference to stars has become a common theme for Bono - see The Fly, If you wear that Velvet Dress, Crumbs from Your Table or Elevation.

Exit Lyrics by U2 from The Joshua Tree

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

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

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

Like the stars shining from above

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

See the hands that build
Can also pull down
The hands of love

Mothers of the Disappeared

2009-10-13T01:11:00.000-07:00

"Mothers Of The Disappeared" Lyrics U2

Mothers Of The Disappeared Lyrics

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