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U2 - The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)

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Album: Songs of Innocence
Released: 2014

The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) Lyrics

I was chasing down the days of fear
Chasing down a dream before it disappeared
I was aching to be somewhere near
Your voice was all I heard

I was shaking from a storm in me
Haunted by the spectres 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
In the most beautiful sound I'd ever heard

We 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'd ever heard

We can hear you, hear you
We can year you
We can hear you, 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

Your voices will be heard
Your voices will be heard

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

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U2 kick off their Songs of Innocence album with this tribute to one of their earliest influences, the late Ramones vocalist Joey Ramone. "I found my voice through Joey Ramone," Bono told Rolling Stone, "because I wasn't the obvious punk-rock singer, or even rock singer. I sang like a girl - which I'm into now, but when I was 17 or 18, I wasn't sure. And I heard Joey Ramone, who sang like a girl, and that was my way in."

U2 surprised the music world on September 9, 2014 when it was announced at an Apple event that Songs of Innocence would be made available for free to anyone with an iTunes account until its physical release on October 13, 2014. "The most personal album we've written could be shared with half a billion people - by hitting send," Bono said. "If only songwriting was that easy."

The surprise announcement was compared to Beyoncé, who dropped her self-titled album without warning on iTunes in December 2013. Other acts who have used unusual launch strategies for their albums include Radiohead who initially released In Rainbows in 2007 as a pay-what-you-want download, and Prince, who has allowed CDs to be given away with newspapers.

Joey's brother, Mickey Leigh, worked with Apple to gain approval for the use of the late Ramones singer's image without knowing exactly what it was being used for. He told MTV News, "It made me feel so good… [When I] finally found out what it was all about, my jaw dropped right away."

Leigh first heard song at a friend's house. "I had to keep my heart going there, it's so beautiful," he recalled. "I loved it. It's Bono's interpretation and his spirit, but it also captures Joey's spirit. He described my brother's spirit well. I think he got just what Joey would have wanted out of it."

The last song that Joey Ramone listened to before he died was U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind track "In A Little While."

A number of iTunes account holders were unhappy that Songs of Innocence appeared in their music libraries without having the option to opt-out. Bono apologized during a Facebook Q&A session. "Oops. I'm sorry about that," he said. "I had this beautiful idea and we got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing. Drop of megalomania, touch of generosity, dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years mightn't be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it."

According to Apple, within the first month of the release of Songs of Innocence, 81 million users listened to it and 26 million downloaded the entire record.

Songs of Innocence was named Best Album of 2014 by Rolling Stone. They said: "There was no bigger album of 2014 - in terms of surprise, generosity and controversy. Songs of Innocence is also the rebirth of the year."

"Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. put their lives on the line: giving away 11 songs of guitar rapture and frank, emotional tales of how they became a band out of the rough streets and spiritual ferment of Seventies Dublin. This is personal history with details."

"The four members of U2 went to see the Ramones playing in the state cinema in Dublin without thinking about how we were going to get in," Bono wrote in the Songs of Innocence liner notes. "We had no tickets and no money... My best friend Guggi had a ticket and he snuck us through a side exit he pried open. The world stopped long enough for us to get on it. Even though we only saw half the show, it became one of the great nights of our life...." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

U2 - This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now

U2 - This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Songs of Innocence
Released: 2014

This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now Lyrics

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This song was inspired by a Clash concert that U2 attended in 1977. "After we saw the Clash, it was a sort of blueprint for U2," Bono told Rolling Stone. "We knew we couldn't possibly hope to be as cool, and that's proven to be true, but we did think we could get behind a sort of social justice agenda."

U2 - Cedarwood Road

U2 - Cedarwood Road Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Songs of Innocence
Released: 2014

Cedarwood Road Lyrics

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, Cedarwood Road

Sleepwalking down the road
And not waking from these dreams
‘Cause it’s never dead
It’s still my head
It was a war zone 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 from the Southside
That’s a long way here

All the green and all the gold
The hurt you hide
And the joy you hold
The foolish pride
That sends you back for more
Up on Cedarwood, 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
And sometimes fear is the only place
That we can call our home
Cedarwood Road

And a heart that is broken
Is a heart that is open
Open, open

Writer/s: CLAYTON, ADAM / EVANS, DAVE / HEWSON, PAUL DAVID / MULLEN, LARRY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Not all the streets have no name - the title of this song refers to 10 Cedarwood Road in Dublin, where a young Paul 'Bono' Hewson grew up alongside his friends Guggi Rowan and Gavin Friday. It is located in the Ballymun district on the northern outskirts of the Irish city. (The track is dedicated to Rowan).

The song started with guitar riff that Edge wrote at home. He put the track together using Garage Band software with drum loops that Larry Mullen Jr. made for him.

Bono wrote the lyrics to match the tone of the track Edge put together. "Sometimes I write lyrics and we try to find the music to express those lyrics," he told the Song Exploder podcast. "But most of the time, it's about finding a feeling at first, and then trying to express that feeling. Edge had this big blues riff - powerful and full of rage. It was a natural fit for me to talk about my own rage."

U2 - California (There Is No End To Love)

U2 - California (There Is No End To Love) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Songs of Innocence
Released: 2014

California (There Is No End To Love) Lyrics

Santa 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 shiny 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
Yeah there is no end to love

I didn't call you
Words 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
Yeah, there is no end to love
All I know and all I need to know
Is there is no
Yeah, there is no end to love

Barbara, Barbara
There is no end to love

Oh oh-oh all I know and all I need to know
Is there is no
Yeah, there is no end to love, whoa oh oh oh
We come and go
But stolen days you don’t give back
Stolen days are just enough

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

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This bright anthem is about U2's transformative first trip to California in the early 1980s. It is one of a number of personal tracks on Songs of Innocence. Bono told Rolling Stone: "The whole album is first journeys - first journeys geographically, spiritually, sexually. And that's hard. But we went there."

Other US-location-named U2 songs include the Pop track "Miami" and the All That You Can't Leave Behind cut "New York."

U2 - Song For Someone

U2 - Song For Someone Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Songs of Innocence
Released: 2014

Song For Someone Lyrics

You 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 found a rhyme

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
Now we shouldn't doubt
And there is a light
Don’t let it go out

And this is a song
A Song For Someone
This is a song
A 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
A song for someone
This is a song
This is a song for someone

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

And I’m a long way
From your hill of Calvary
And I’m a long way
From where I was, where I need to be
If there is a light
You can’t always see
And there is a world
We can’t always be
If there is a kiss
I stole from your mouth
And there is a light
Don’t let it go out

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

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Bono most likely had in mind his teenage sweetheart-turned-long-standing wife Ali Hewson when he penned this tender song of awkward first love. The pair started dating in 1976, right around the time U2 was formed.

I was told that I would feel
Nothing the first time
I don't know how these cuts heal
But in you I found a rhyme

Speaking to Dave Fanning during a RTE two hour Songs of Innocence special, Bono explained the album is "all about first journeys." He added that this song "is about the awkwardness of falling in love and sex."

The song is one of four tracks on Songs of Innocence that was co-produced by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, best known for working with pop artists lile Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson and Beyoncé. OneRepublic opened for U2 on their 360 Tour dates during the summer of 2010.

Asked by Q magazine why the band recruited Tedder, Bono explained that he was brought in for his gift for melody. The U2 frontman said: "The popsters are beating the others on melody. Not in lyrics, not in their aesthetic, but they're writing better tunes. That was not the case with The Beatles and the Stones. The Beatles were writing better tunes than the popsters and not compromising on their lyrics and their aesthetic."

"When Brian Burton [Danger Mouse] ran out of time to work with us – and he's by far the biggest presence on the album as a producer – we got to work with Paul Epworth, we got to work with Ryan Tedder," he added. "Their only interest is in melody that you haven't heard before and the uniqueness of it. So that changed the game for us."

The nine-minute short film for this song stars actor Woody Harrelson portraying a man being released from prison. The visual was directed by Vincent Haycock who has previously shot shorts for Paul McCartney ("Early Days") and Lana Del Rey ("West Coast") and also stars Harrelson's daughter Zoe Harrelson.

The clip is thematically linked to the Sundance TV series Rectify, which follows the story of Daniel Holden after his release from 19 years on death row.

A second Matt Mahurin-directed moody black-and-white clip video was released. The video features a performance from Bono filmed earlier in 2015 in Malibu interspersed with imagery of barren desert and night skies. The director and the U2 frontman previously worked together on 1993's "Love Is Blindness" and Mahurin has also worked with many other high profile artists over the years including Metallica, R.E.M., and Alice In Chains.

U2 - Volcano

U2 - Volcano Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Songs of Innocence
Released: 2014

Volcano Lyrics

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 don’t wanna, you don’t wanna know
You’re on a piece of ground above a volcano

You were alone
And now you’re not alone
You were alone
But you are rock n’ roll
You and I are rock n’ roll
But you are rock n’ roll
You and I are rock n’ roll

Oh, 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

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

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Paul "Bono" Hewson's mother died when he was 14 after suffering a brain aneurysm at her own father's funeral. This driving tune finds a young, angry Bono wrestling with the death of his two close family members. "My mother died that year, so did my grandad," he writes in the album booklet. "After grief comes rage…the molten lava that turns to rock if it can... this kind of fire in the belly cannot sustain. If you're lucky, it burns out before it burns you out."

The song follows another track on Songs of Innocence about Bono's loss of his mother, "Iris (Hold Me Close)."

When The Observer asked Larry Mullen if he remembers the teenage Bono as the cannonball of fury and grief portrayed in this song Volcano, the U2 drummer instantly replied: "That's the guy I know now."