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Angels Too Tied to the Ground

Jul. 21, 20081 viewer

Angels Too Tied to the Ground Lyrics

What is it that keeps me back from you?
What is it when I just can't get through?
What is it when we've nothing left to do
But savor the mess that we tried?

What is it when the clock just won't rewind?
What is it when our love seems to stop time?
I'm telling you

Waving a white flag
Baby got a white flag flying for you baby
Got a white flag, white flag

Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Ha, ha, ha, ha

And now it's only alive in my head
In my mind
All in my head, in my mind

Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha
Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh, angels too tied to the ground
Oh

Oh
Oh
Oh

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“Angels Too Tied to the Ground” is one of the tracks that dates back to the War album in 1983. Between 2008 and 2011, U2 went back into the archives while remastering albums and dug up a number of older songs which had never been completed. This is one of the tracks that has been added to in sessions in May 2008. It is likely that the music was mostly finished in 1983, but Bono’s vocals may be newly recorded or added to. “Angels Too Tied to the Ground” was released in 2008 on the deluxe edition of War.

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July 21, 2008
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