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U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name
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“Where the Streets Have No Name” is the third single from U2’s 1987 album The Joshua Tree. It was written by Bono in response to the notion that it’s possible to identify a person’
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U2 – Even Better Than the Real Thing
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[Verse 1] / Give me one more chance and you'll be satisfied / Give me two more chances, you won't be denied / Well, my heart is where it's always been / My head is somewhere in
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U2 – Zoo Station
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If Achtung Baby is “the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree,” as Bono has indeed often described it, then “Zoo Station” is the sound of the chainsaw revving up.
It was
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U2 – The Fly
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The seventh song on Achtung Baby, it exemplifies the band’s shift toward crunchier, distorted guitars and vocals on this album.
It’s also the namesake of the leather and shades
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U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
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This song was inspired by an art exhibit of paintings created by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.
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U2 – Every Breaking Wave
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This song is about long distance relationships and how we all are on our own journeys at the mercy of the world.
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U2 (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Get Out of Your Own Way
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This is U2’s second official single from Songs of Experience. It was released on November 1, 2017.
U2 once again teams up with American rapper Kendrick Lamar, making this their
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U2 – Until the End of the World
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This song is Judas Iscariot singing to Jesus.
The first verse discusses The Last Supper:
We ate the food, we drank the wine
Everybody having a good time except you
You were
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U2 – Spanish Eyes
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“Spanish Eyes” is a track included on the 20th anniversary release of The Joshua Tree. It was originally released as a b-side to the album’s second single, “I Still Haven’t Found
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U2 – Bad
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“Bad” is a song about addiction. Though not stated explicitly in the song, Bono has made clear many times in interviews and at concerts that it was written about heroin addiction
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U2 (Ft. B.B. King) – When Love Comes to Town
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This song is a tribute of sorts to B.B. King. U2 was heavily influenced by American blues music, and they admired B.B. in particular. The band met King early in 1987 when he
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U2 – Love Is Blindness
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Love is Blindness is the final song on U2’s Achtung Baby.
Viewpoints abound, but a commonly held belief is that the song drives home the point that capital-L LOVE for anything–be
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U2 – Discothèque
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The first single from Pop, this distorted mix of rock and club music divided both fans and critics from its release. Some liked its experimentation, some hated that it wasn’t like
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U2 – Invisible
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“Invisible” was the first song featured from U2’s extended edition of Songs of Innocence, offered in promotion for (RED), a non-profit organization dedicated to curing AIDS.
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U2 – Mofo
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“Mofo” is the last single off U2’s Pop and was used to open every concert during their PopMart Tour which ran from 1997-1998.
This song is a conversation between Bono and his
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U2 – Cedarwood Road
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Off the album Songs of Innocence, released September 9th, 2014. Bono speaks of his childhood home in Dublin, Ireland. Nice electric guitar, and more stunning vocals by Bono!
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U2 – A Sort of Homecoming
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The title was inspired by a speech Bono came across by Romanian-German Jewish poet Paul Celan, who wrote during his time in internment camps during the Nazi occupation. Celan
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U2 – Gloria
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The most immediately apparent thing about “Gloria” is that its chorus is in Latin, meaning “Glory / In you, Lord / Praise.” Bono got the idea from listening to an album of
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U2 – Hawkmoon 269
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The title refers to the number of mixes the song went through before reaching the final version. Because of this, it took over three weeks to complete. Hawkmoon is a town in North
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U2 – October
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“October” is the title track off U2’s second studio album, released on 12 October 1981.
This short song describes the October season and Bono’s lack of care for the environment
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U2 – October
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“October” is the title track off U2’s second studio album, released on 12 October 1981.
This short song describes the October season and Bono’s lack of care for the environment
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U2 – The Hands That Built America
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[Verse 1] / Oh, my love / It's a long way we’ve come / From the freckled hills to the steel and glass canyons / From the stony fields to hanging steel from the sky / From digging
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U2 – If God Will Send His Angels
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[Verse 1] / Nobody else here, baby / No one here to blame / No one to point the finger / It's just you and me and the rain / [Verse 2] / Nobody made you do it / No one put words in
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U2 – Two Hearts Beat As One
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[Verse 1] / Oh, I don't know, I don't know which side I'm on / I don't know my right from left or my right from wrong / They say I'm a fool, they say I'm nothing / But if I'm a
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U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
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The first track on U2’s War, it was responsible for breaking the band in the USA thanks to the heavy rotation the video (from Under a Blood Red Sky) received on MTV.
It conveys
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U2 – Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
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The third single from Songs of Experience, ‘Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way’ was released 2018-04-11.
As part of a series of letters to friends, family, loved ones, fans
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U2 – Raised By Wolves
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This song appeared on U2’s surprise album Songs of Innocence. It was released on September 9th 2014.
It talks about growing up in a tough part of town, with the effects of ‘The
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U2 – A Celebration
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[Intro] / Shake! Shake! / [Verse 1] / Don't go! / I believe in a celebration / I believe you can set me free / I believe you can loose these chains / I believe you can dance with
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U2 – Vertigo
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The lead single from U2’s world-beating album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, Bono said of the song:
That riff, you can think, “Aw yeah, another rock song.” It doesn’t become
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U2 – Your Song Saved My Life
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[Verse 1] / Was a Monday morning / 'Bout a quarter past four / You were busy dreaming / So what did you wake up for / [Pre-Chorus] / Are you a stranger in your own life? / What
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U2 – Fire
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[Verse 1] / Calling, calling, the sun is burning black / Calling, calling, it's beating on my back / With a fire, fire / With a fire, fire / [Verse 2] / Calling, calling, the moon
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U2 – Atomic City
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[Verse 1] / Come all you stars falling out of the sky / Come all you angels forgetting to fly / Come all who feel we're not on our own / All UFOs come on your way home / Alone
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U2 – "40"
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[Intro] / Two, three, four / [Verse 1] / I waited patiently for the Lord / He inclined and heard my cry / He brought me up out of the pit / Out of the miry clay / [Pre-Chorus] / I
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U2 – Acrobat
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The second to last song on Achtung Baby, it wasn’t performed live until 2018, though it was rehearsed extensively in an acoustic form prior to the third leg of the Zoo TV Tour in
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U2 – Lemon
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Bono described the song, written about a home movie taken of his late mother, in 2006’s U2 by U2:
I have very few memories of my mother because my father never talked about her
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Sickboyrari – U2
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[Intro] / (EVILGIANE) / I would catch a body for you / [Hook] / I would catch a body for you (Surf Gang, bitch) / [?] for you / Know I'm standing by tutu / Spent 250 on these shoes
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U2 – Exit
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“Exit” was developed from a lengthy jam that was recorded in a single take and edited down to a shorter arrangement.
The lyrics, which portray the mind of a serial killer, were
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U2 – Sweetest Thing
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[Intro] / Ooh ooh ooh / Yeah yeah yeah / [Verse 1] / My love, she throws me like a rubber ball / (Oh, the sweetest thing) / But she won't catch me or break my fall / (Oh, the
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U2 – Elevation
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“Elevation” is a massive song from a massive band, with U2 dialling their sound way up to provide a huge adrenaline shot. There are two versions, with the single “remix” being
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U2 – Mysterious Ways
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Mysterious Ways is the second single and eighth track from the critically acclaimed album “Achtung Baby”. The song describes a man who doesn’t understand love. It also draws
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