U2 Songs - Promenade Lyrics

U2 - Promenade

U2 - Promenade Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Unforgettable Fire
Released: 1984

Promenade Lyrics

Earth sky sea and rain
Is she coming back again
Men of straw, snooker hall
Words that build or destroy
Dirt dry bone sand and stone
Barbed-wire fence cut me down
I'd like to be around
In a spiral staircase
To the higher ground

And I, like a firework, explode
Roman candle lightning lights up the sky

In the cracked streets trampled under foot
Sidestep, sidewalk
I see you stare into space
Have I got closer now
Behind the face

Oh tell me
Charity dance with me
Turn me around tonight
Up through spiral staircase
To the higher ground

Slide show sea side town
Coca-Cola, football radio radio radio
Radio radio radio

Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Promenade Song Chart

Bono wrote the lyrics about his house in Bray, a small town South of Dublin, where he lived with his wife, Ali.

This was influenced by Van Morrison, another very popular Irish musician.

Bono, 1987, on the album and its producers, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois: "The Unforgettable Fire was a beautifully out-of-focus record, blurred like an impressionist painting, very unlike a billboard or an advertising slogan ... In America there was such a backlash when we put out The Unforgettable Fire. People thought we were the future of rock'n'roll and they went, 'What are you doin' with this doggone hippie Eno album?'" Bono added: "We owe Eno and Lanois so much for seeing through to the heart of U2." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)