Genius Lyrics
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U2 – So Cruel
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Track 6 on Achtung Baby, “So Cruel” has only been played live four times, all during the Zoo TV tour.
Robert Hillburn, one of U2’s early backers and a critic for the Los Angeles
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Depeche Mode – So Cruel
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We crossed the line, who pushed who over? / It doesn't matter to you, it matters to me / We're cut adrift, but still floating / I'm only hanging on to watch you go down, my love
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U2 – Laughing In The Face Of Love/So Cruel
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And the day is dry / And there's no water / And you can't see the road ahead / You can only see her / Why is it love... / You're holding on to all you say, girl / Why don't you cry
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U2 – Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
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[Verse 1] / Six o'clock in the morning / You're the last to hear the warning / You been tryin' to throw your arms around the world / You been falling off the sidewalk / Your lips
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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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U2 – One
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After experiencing massive success in the late ‘80s, U2 found themselves at a sticking point as the new decade dawned.
They’d decamped to Hansa Studios in Berlin just as the wall
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JAY-Z (Ft. Lenny Kravitz) – Guns & Roses
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The second track, of the second disc, of the second Blueprint album, “Guns & Roses,” is about turning negatives into positives.
There’s also a surprising number of fashion
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U2 – Flower Child (From 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' Sessions)
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[Verse 1] / On the fifth day of May, she was breaking away / When the moon came and sat on your shoulder / She was still young, not yet highly strung / As you need to be when you
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U2 – Flower Child
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On the fifth day of May she was breaking away / When the moon came and sat on your shoulder / She was still young, not yet highly strung / As you need to be when you get older
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Everybody Loves an Outlaw – I See Red
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[Verse 1] / Did you really think / I'd just forgive and forget, no / After catching you with her / Your blood should run cold, so cold / [Pre-Chorus 1] / You, you two-timing, cheap
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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 – Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
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“They hated that song. I spent a month on it and I still don’t think it was as realised as it could’ve been. The Americans had heard it and said, ‘That’s your radio song there
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U2 (Ft. Mickey Raphael & Willie Nelson) – Slow Dancing
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[Verse 1] / My love is cruel as the night / She steals the sun and shuts out the light / All of my colors turn to blue / Win or lose / [Chorus] / She does it slow dancing / Slow
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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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1919 – Jackie
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You're so fucking bored / You're climbing up the walls / No escape / Til the sun goes down / Wide awake at midnight with an 80s film / Desperate for some hours to yourself / You're
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Behold! The Night Mare
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[Verse 1] / I’ve faced the fathoms in your deep / Withstood the suitors' quiet siege / Pulled down the heavens just to please you / [Refrain 1] / Appease you / The wind blows and I
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U2 – Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
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[Intro] / Sometimes I feel like I don't know / Sometimes I feel like checking out / I wanna get it wrong / Can't always be strong / And love, it won't be long... / [Verse 1] / Oh
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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 – 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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