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U2 - New Yor
U2 - New York


U2 - New York Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Released: 2000

New York Lyrics


In New York freedom looks like
Too many choices
In New York I found a friend
To drown out the other voices

Voices on a cell phone
Voices from home
Voices of the hard sell
Voices down a stairwell
In New York
Just got a place in New York

In New York summers get hot
Well into the hundreds
You can't walk around the block
Without a change of clothing

Hot as a hair dryer in your face
Hot as a handbag and a can of mace
New York
I just got a place in New York

New York New York

In New York you can forget
Forget how to sit still
Tell yourself you will stay in
But it's down to Alphaville

New York
New York, New York

New York, New York
New York

The Irish been coming here for years
Feel like they own the place
They got the airport, city hall
Asphalt, asphalt
They even got the police

Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew
Happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you

New York
New York, New York
New York
New York, New York

New York
New York

In New York I lost it all
To you and your vices
Still I'm staying on to figure out
Midlife crisis

I hit an iceberg in my life
You know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance, lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat

You got to put the women and children first
But you've got an unquenchable thirst for New York

New York
New York
New York, New York

In the stillness of the evening
When the sun has had its day
I heard your voice whispering
Come away now

New, New York
New
New York
Oh
New York

Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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New York
  • This song is about how the city of New York is filled with confusion, doubt, sin, and many different ethnic groups. Despite all this, the people there wouldn't live anywhere else: "I thought I heard you whispering 'come away child'. New York, New York." (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA)

  • U2 - In A Little Whil
    U2 - In A Little While


    U2 - In A Little While Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
    Released: 2000

    In A Little While Lyrics


    In A Little While
    Surely you'll be mine
    In a little while I'll be there

    In a little while
    This hurt will hurt no more
    I'll be home, love

    When the night takes a deep breath
    And the daylight has no air
    If I crawl, if I come crawling home
    Will you be there

    Ah ooh ooh
    Ah ooh ohh
    In a little while
    I won't blown by every breeze
    Friday night running
    To Sunday on my knees

    That girl, that girl
    She's mine
    And I've know her since

    Since you were a little girl
    With Spanish eyes
    Oh, when I saw her
    In a pram they pushed her by

    My, how you've grown
    Well it's been
    It's been a little while

    Ah ooh ooh
    Ah ooh ooh
    Ah ooh ooh
    Slow down my beating heart
    Man dreams one day to fly
    A man takes a rocket ship into the skies
    He lives on a star that's dying in the night
    And follows in the trail
    The scatter of light

    Turn it on
    Turn it on
    You turn me on, mhmm

    Ah ooh ooh
    Slow down my beating heart
    Ah ooh ooh
    Slowly, slowly love
    Slow down my beating heart
    Slowly, slowly love
    Slow down my beating heart
    Slowly, slowly love

    Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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    In A Little While
  • U2 played this song on their Elevation tour. Bono said it was written about a hangover - the night before appears to be a distant memory.
  • Bono mentions in the book U2 by U2 that the lyrics "A little girl with Spanish eyes/When I saw her first in a pram they pushed her by" refer to his wife, Alison. She was a year younger than him in school, and Bono was often teased as being a baby-snatcher for dating a younger girl. (thanks, Sara - Minneapolis, MN)
  • This was the last song that Joey Ramone listened to before he died in 2001. Bono said that Joey turned a song about a hangover into something religious.

    Joey's brother Mickey recalled to Mojo May 2011 how this song was playing as he watched his bro pass away: "It was just so applicable and sad, hearing these words, 'In a little while, this hurt will hurt no more.' The song ended and the nurse said, 'He's gone now.' He went with the song, I thought, to that place where songs go after they're played - wherever that is."

  • U2 - Peace On Eart
    U2 - Peace On Earth


    U2 - Peace On Earth Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
    Released: 2000

    Peace On Earth Lyrics


    Heaven on earth
    We need it now
    I'm sick of all of this
    Hanging around
    Sick of sorrow
    Sick of pain
    Sick of hearing again and again
    That there's gonna be
    Peace On Earth

    Where I grew up
    There weren't many trees
    Where there was we'd tear them down
    And use them on our enemies
    They say that what you mock
    Will surely overtake you
    And you become a monster
    So the monster will not break you

    And it's already gone too far
    Who said if you go in hard
    You won't get hurt?

    Jesus can you take the time
    To throw a drowning man a line?
    Peace on earth
    Tell the ones who hear no sound
    Whose sons are living in the ground
    Peace on earth
    No whos or whys
    No-one cries like a mother cries
    For peace on earth
    She never got to say goodbye
    To see the color in his eyes
    Now he's in the dirt
    Peace on earth

    They're reading names out over the radio
    All the folks the rest of us won't get to know
    Sean and Julia, Gareth, Ann and Brenda
    Their lives are bigger than any big idea

    Jesus, can you take the time
    To throw a drowning man a line?
    Peace on earth
    To tell the ones who hear no sound
    Whose sons are living in the ground
    Peace on earth

    Jesus, in the song you wrote
    The words are sticking in my throat
    Peace on earth
    Hear it every Christmas time
    But hope and history won't rhyme
    So what's it worth?
    This peace on earth

    Peace on earth
    Peace on earth
    Peace on earth

    Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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  • This is about tensions in Northern Ireland. Bono wrote it in one night after a bombing in the town of Omagh.
  • The Lyrics "She never got to say goodbye, To see the colour in his eyes, now he's in the dirt" was about how James Barker, a victim, was remembered by his mother Donna Maria Barker in an article in the Irish Times after the bombing in Omagh.
  • Sean and Julia, Gareth, Anne, and Breda, were victims of the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland. They died Saturday, August 15, 1998. (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA, for above 2)
  • The Edge has said this is the most bitter U2 song ever written.
  • Bono's laptop computer containing lyrics to the songs on the album was stolen in 1999. It was recovered by an Irish man who bought the stolen computer, and discovered the lyrics. He turned it in for a reward.

  • U2 - Elevatio
    U2 - Elevation


    U2 - Elevation Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
    Released: 2000

    Elevation Lyrics


    High, higher than the sun
    You shoot me from a gun
    I need you to elevate me here,
    At the corner of your lips
    As the orbit of your hips
    Eclipse, you elevate my soul

    I've lost all self-control
    Been living like a mole
    Now going down, excavation
    I and I in the sky
    You make me feel like I can fly
    So high, Elevation

    A star lit up like a cigar
    Strung out like a guitar
    Maybe you could educate my mind
    Explain all these controls
    I can't sing but I've got soul
    The goal is elevation

    A mole, living in a hole
    Digging up my soul, now
    Going down, excavation
    I and I in the sky
    You make me feel like I can fly
    So high, elevation

    Love, lift me up out of these blues
    Won't you tell me something true
    I believe in you

    A mole, living in a hole
    Digging up my soul now
    Going down, excavation
    I and I in the sky
    You make me feel like I can fly
    So high, elevation
    Elevation
    Elevation
    Elevation
    Elevation

    Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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    Elevation Song Chart
  • A live performance was taped for British TV show Top Of The Pops on the rooftop of a hotel in Ireland that Bono and The Edge own. They also taped a performance of "Beautiful Day" for the show.
  • This was one of the first major-label releases made available for preview on the web before the song was released.
  • Their 2001 tour was "The Elevation Tour," and this was the first song in the set. U2 messed with convention by starting the show with the house lights still on. As the recorded intro music to this song played, the band would take the stage and start the show under the house lights. Somewhere in the middle of the song, the house lights would cut and the stage lights would come on. U2 tried this on the first show of the tour, and the response was so strong that they did it for the remainder of the tour. (thanks, Dave - Philly, PA)
  • A remixed version was included on the soundtrack to the 2001 movie Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. A video for this was made featuring a "good" U2 doing battle with an "evil" U2, who kidnaps The Edge. Croft rescues him, and the U2s face off in a street jam. It was directed by Joseph Kahn, who also helmed the band's "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" video.
  • Bono's laptop computer containing lyrics to the songs on the album was stolen in 1999. It was recovered by an Irish man who bought the stolen computer, and discovered the lyrics. He turned it in for a reward.
  • The Elevation Tour was the most profitable tour in the US in 2001. It grossed $143 million in 113 dates.
  • Won the 2001 Grammy for Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal. U2 won 4 awards that night, including Best Rock Album.

  • U2 Songs - Kite
    U2 - Kite


    U2 - Kite Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
    Released: 2000

    Kite Lyrics


    Something is about to give
    I can feel it coming
    I think I know what it means
    I'm not afraid to die
    I'm not afraid to live
    And when I'm flat on my back
    I hope to feel like I did

    And hardness, it sets in
    You need some protection
    The thinner the skin

    I want you to know
    That you don't need me anymore
    I want you to know
    You don't need anyone or anything at all

    Who's to say where the wind will take you
    Who's to say what it is will break you
    I don't know which way the wind will blow
    Who's to know when the time's come around
    Don't want to see you cry
    I know that this is not goodbye

    In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
    There's a Kite blowing out of control on a breeze
    I wonder what's gonna happen to you
    You wonder what has happened to me

    I'm a man, I'm not a child
    A man who sees
    The shadow behind your eyes

    Who's to say where the wind will take you
    Who's to say what it is will break you
    I don't know where the wind will blow
    Who's to know when the time's come around
    Don't want to see you cry
    I know that this is not goodbye

    Did I waste it?
    Not so much I couldn't taste it
    Life should be fragrant
    Roof top to the basement
    The last of the rock stars
    When hip hop drove the big cars
    In the time when new media
    Was the big idea
    That was the big idea

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

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  • Bono wrote this after flying a kite with his 2 daughters. Being a rock star, Bono was not used to flying kites. It crashed and they went home to play video games.
  • Bono wrote this for his father, Bob Hewson, who died of cancer on August 21, 2001. U2 played a concert in London a few hours after his death and Bono dedicated this to him.
  • The Edge considers this his favorite song on the album. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Bono also mentioned that "Kite" was his favorite song on the CD. He also referenced the death of Michael Hutchence, former singer for INXS while discussing the song. (thanks, Aziz Valika - Chicago, IL)
  • On the the Elevation tour of 2001, Bono said this was "about saying goodbye to somebody you don't want to say goodbye to." (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA)

  • U2 Songs - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
    U2 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of


    U2 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
    Released: 2000

    Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of Lyrics


    I'm not afraid of anything in this world
    There's nothing you can throw at me
    That I haven't already heard
    I'm just trying to find a decent melody
    A song that I can sing in my own company
    I never thought you were a fool
    But darling, look at you
    You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight
    These tears are going nowhere, baby

    You've got to get yourself together
    You've got stuck in a moment
    And now you can't get out of it
    Don't say that later will be better
    Now you're stuck in a moment
    And you can't get out of it

    I will not forsake, the colors that you bring
    But the nights you filled with fireworks
    They left you with nothing
    I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me
    I still listen through your ears
    And through your eyes I can see

    And you are such a fool
    To worry like you do
    I know it's tough
    And you can never get enough
    Of what you don't really need now, my oh my

    You've got to get yourself together
    You've got stuck in a moment
    And now you can't get out of it
    Oh love look at you now
    You've got yourself stuck in a moment
    And now you can't get out of it

    I was unconscious, half asleep
    The water is warm till you discover how deep
    I wasn't jumping
    For me it was a fall
    It's a long way down to nothing at all

    You've got to get yourself together
    You've got stuck in a moment
    And now you can't get out of it
    Don't say that later will be better now
    You're stuck in a moment
    And you can't get out of it

    And if the night runs over
    And if the day won't last
    And if our way should falter
    Along the stony pass

    And if the night runs over
    And if the day won't last
    And if your way should falter
    Along the stony pass It's just a moment
    This time will pass

    Writer/s: PAUL HEWSON, DAVE EVANS, LARRY MULLEN, ADAM CLAYTON, U2
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of Song Chart
  • This is about Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS who killed himself in 1997. He and Bono were close friends, and even discussed the topic of suicide.
  • In an interview with Rolling Stone, Bono said that he and Hutchence, discussed suicide in the past: "We discussed suicide a few times and we both agreed how pathetic it was." He said they had 'kinda promised each other' neither would ever kill themselves.
  • Bono (from Rolling Stone): "It's a row between mates. You're kinda trying to wake them up out of an idea. In my case it's a row I didn't have while he was alive. I feel the biggest respect I could pay to him was not to write some stupid soppy f--king song, so I wrote a really tough, nasty little number, slapping him around the head. And I'm sorry, but that's how it came out of me." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)
  • Mick Jagger and his 16 year-old daughter, Elizabeth, came to their Dublin studio and sang backup on this. U2 decided to go another direction with the song and did not use their tracks.
  • The band sent Jagger a copy of his version of this, and thanked him and his daughter in the album's liner notes.
  • The video, directed by Joseph Kahn, was shot in Berlin while the band was between tour dates. It showed them in a stadium watching an American Football game. U2 performed at the Super Bowl a few months later. Kahn also directed "Elevation," which featured a battle between good U2 and evil U2.
  • This got a lot of airplay when terrorists struck America in 2001. Los Angeles radio station KIIS produced a version featuring bits of President Bush's speeches mixed in with the lyrics.
  • An acoustic version was included on a 2002 album of rarities called U2 7, which was distributed through Target stores.
  • This won the 2001 Grammy for Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal. It was the first award given out on the show, which U2 opened with a performance of "Walk On."
  • When Apple Computer started their online music store in 2003, an acoustic version of this was offered as an exclusive to the service. It was the #1 downloaded song the first week of the service.

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