Stories for Boys (Songs Of Surrender)

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Stories for Boys (Songs Of Surrender) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
There's a place I go
Both near and far away
Like a TV show
With everyone I've known
In my imagination
There is just static in flow
Hello, hello

[Verse 2]
There's a picture book
With colored photographs
Where there is no shame
There is no laugh
Sometimes I find it thrilling
That I can't have what I don't know
Hello, hello

[Chorus]
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys

[Verse 3]
There's a place I go
That isn't part of me
Like a radio
With no controls
In my imagination
There's only static in flow
No yes, oh no

[Chorus]
Just stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys
Stories for boys

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What did U2 say about "Stories for Boys (Songs Of Surrender)"?

Bono:

I guess it’s a teenage fantasy, kind of, but it’s not sketched out. And then for this collection, not only did we sketch it out, Edge sang it, and it’s quite unsettled. And it has a whole other resonance.

The Edge:

We were writing it now about ourselves as we were-boys, back in 1979 when we first started that song. From the safety of this amount of distance of time and experience, you can actually look at who we were and finish out that lyric, which we could never have written at the time.

— via Apple Music

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