Genius Meanings
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U2 – Bullet the Blue Sky
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“Bullet the Blue Sky” is one of the band’s most overtly political songs, condemning US foreign policy for causing unrest in Central America in the 1980s. The song includes
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U2 – Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
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[Verse 1] / In the howlin' wind / Comes a stingin' rain / See it drivin' nails / Into the souls on the tree of pain / From the firefly / A red orange glow / I see the face of fear
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U2 – Bullet The Blue Sky (Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001)
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In the howling wind comes a stinging rain / See it driving nails into souls on the tree of pain / From a firefly, a red orange glow / I see the face of fear running scared in the
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Queensrÿche – Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)
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In the howlin' wind / Comes a stingin' rain / Now see it drivin' nails / Into the souls on the tree of pain / From the firefly / A red orange glow / See the face of fear / Runnin
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P.O.D. (Ft. Lisa Papineau) – Bullet the Blue Sky
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[Verse 1] / In the howlin' wind / Comes a stingin' rain / See it drivin' nails / Into the souls on the tree of pain / From the firefly / A red orange glow / See the face of fear
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Dean Gray – Novocaine Rhapsody
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[Green Day (Queen)] / Take away the sensations inside (Is this the real life) / Bittersweet migraine in my head (Caught in a landslide) / It's like a throbbing toothache of the
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U2 – The Joshua Tree [Tracklist + Album Art]
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The Joshua Tree tracklist includes both the original 1987 release as well as 2007’s 20th anniversary bonus tracks.
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U2 – Kite (Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001)
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This is a, this, this song is about letting go of / Someone you don’t want to let go of / Could be a lover, could be father / Could be, could be a child, could be a friend / I don’
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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 – Beautiful Day (Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001)
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The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground / But there’s no room, no space to rent in this town / You’re out of luck and the reason that you had to care / The traffic is
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U2 – Desire (Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001)
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I’m the blind ambition of the band, that’s my job / You need to be blind sometimes / Ya know what I’m saying / Lover, I’m off the streets / Gonna go where the bright lights / And
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U2 – Walk On (Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001)
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Walk On / Walk On / And if the darkness is to keep us apart / And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off / And if your glass heart should crack / If for a second you turn
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U2 – Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (Acoustic Version)
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I am not afraid / Of anything in this world / There’s nothing you can throw at me / That I haven’t already heard / I’m just trying to find / A decent melody / A song that I can
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U2 – The Fly (Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001)
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[Intro] / You walk out into the sports hall, lights go down / It's a whole different scene / Of light and motion, light and motion / Lights up and motion / It's hard to walk away
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U2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close!) [Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001]
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Green light, Seven Eleven / You stop in for a pack of cigarettes / You don’t smoke, don’t even want to / Hey now, so you check your change / Dressed up like a car crash / Your
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U2 – Where The Streets Have No Name (Live From The Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA / 2001)
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(— sing this song) / (How long to sing this song) / (How long…) (Oh) / What can I give back to God / For the blessings he poured out on me / What can I give back to God / For the
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U2 – Red Hill Mining Town
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The focus of the song is on the National Union of Mineworkers' 1984 strike in England that occurred in response to the National Coal Board’s campaign to close uneconomic mines.
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U2 – One Tree Hill
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The track was written in memory of Greg Carroll, a Māori man the band first met in Auckland during The Unforgettable Fire Tour in 1984. He was killed in July 1986 in a motorcycle
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U2 – Stateless
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I got no home in this world / Just gravity, luck and time / I've got no home in this world / Just you and you are not mine / Stateless / Fateless / Stateless / (Shut you cold
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U2 – Mothers of the Disappeared
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This song was written in honor of two groups working on behalf of the victims–either kidnapped (“disappeared”) or assassinated–of American-backed “dirty wars” in Latin America: the
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U2 – In God's Country
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“In God’s Country” was a difficult song for the band to record, which they put down to not being trained musicians, and they do not speak overly highly of it.
Bono has stated that
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Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
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“Wish You Were Here” is the title track on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album. The song’s lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters‘ feelings of alienation from other people, drawing particular
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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 – In God's Country (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky / The rivers run but soon run dry / We need new dreams tonight / Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose / Dress torn in
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U2 (Ft. Keith Richards) – Silver and Gold (Sun City)
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“Silver and Gold (Sun City)” was a track originally released on Sun City, a Steven Van Zandt-curated album for his Artists United Against Apartheid project.
The track was made
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