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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 – Until The End Of The World (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / Haven't seen you in quite a while / I was down the hold, just killing time / The last time we met was a low-lit room / We were as close together as a bride and a groom
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Patti Smith – Until the End of the World
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Haven't seen you in quite a while / I was down the hold, just passing time / Last time we met was a low-lit room / We were as close together as bride and groom / We ate the food
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – (I’ll Love You) Till the End of the World
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' “(I’ll Love You) Till The End Of The World” was written for the soundtrack of the French science fiction film Until the End of the World. The song
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R.E.M. – It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
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“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”, stylized as ITEOTWAWKI(AIFF), features stream-of-consciousness lyrics that border on a rant, encompassing a wide
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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 – "40" (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I waited patiently for the Lord / He inclined and heard my cry / He lifted me up out of the pit / Out of the miry clay / [Pre-Chorus] / I will sing, sing a new song / I
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U2 – Two Hearts Beat As One (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / 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 / You say I'm a fool, you say I'm nothing / If I'm a fool for you
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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 – If God Will Send His Angels (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Intro] / Nobody else here, baby / [Verse 1] / Nobody else here, baby / No one else here to blame / No one to point the finger / It's just you and me and the rain / [Verse 2
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U2 – Pride (In the Name of Love) [Songs Of Surrender]
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[Verse 1] / One man comes in the name of love / One man to come and go / One man comes, he to justify / One man to overthrow / [Chorus] / In the name of love / What more in the
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U2 – Miracle Drug (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I wanna trip inside your head / Spend the day there / To hear the things you haven't said / And see what you might see / I wanna hear you when you call / Do you feel
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U2 – Song For Someone (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / You got a face not spoiled by beauty / I have some scars from where I've been / You've got eyes that can see right through me / You're not afraid of anything they've
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U2 – Invisible (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / It's like the room just cleared of smoke / I didn't even want the heart you broke / It's yours to keep, you just might need one / I finally found my real name / I won't
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U2 – Stories for Boys (Songs Of Surrender)
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[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
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U2 – I Will Follow (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I was on the outside / When you said, you said you needed me / In the mirror, a reflection / Of the boy I could never be / [Verse 2] / A boy tries hard to be a man
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U2 – The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) [Songs Of Surrender]
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[Verse 1] / I was chasing down the days of fear / Chasing down a dream before it disappeared / Aching to be somewhere near / Your voice was all I heard / [Verse 2] / I was shaking
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U2 – Cedarwood Road (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I was running down the road / The fear was all I knew / I was looking for a soul that's real / Then I ran into you / And that cherry blossom tree / Was a gateway to the
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U2 – Beautiful Day (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / The heart is a bloom / It shoots up through the stony ground / There's no room / No space to rent in this town / You're out of luck / And the reason that you had to
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U2 – One (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / Is it getting better / Or do you feel the same? / Will it make it easier on you, now / You've got someone to blame? / [Chorus] / You say one love, one life / When it's
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U2 – Walk On (Ukraine) [Songs Of Surrender]
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[Verse 1] / And if the comic takes the stage and no one laughs / And does a dance on his own grave for a photograph / This is not a curtain call, this is the greatest act of all
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U2 – Dirty Day (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I don't know you / And you don't know the half of it / Had a starring role / Played the bad guy who walked off set / [Verse 2] / They say be careful where you aim / '
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U2 – Get Out of Your Own Way (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Chorus] / Get out of your own way, ho-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh / Get out of your own way / Get out of your own way, ho-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh / Get out of your own way / [Verse 1] / Love hurts
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U2 – Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I'm 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
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U2 – I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I have climbed the highest mountains / I have run through the fields / Only to be with you / Only to be with you / I have run, I have crawled / I have scaled these city
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U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Intro] / Oh, woah / Ah-ah, ah-ah / [Verse 1] / I can't believe the news today / I can't close my eyes, make it go away / [Refrain] / How long? How long must we sing this song
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U2 – Bad (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / If I twist and turn away / If I tear myself in two again / If I could, you know I would / If I could, I would let it go / Surrender, this is a song of surrender / [
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U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I wanna run, I wanna hide / I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside / Oh, show me a place high on a desert plain / Where the streets have no name / [Verse 2
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U2 – All I Want Is You (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / You say you want / Diamonds on a ring of gold / You say you want / Your story to remain untold / [Chorus] / All the promises we made / From the cradle to the grave
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U2 – Out of Control (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / Monday morning / Eighteen years of dawning / I said, "How long?" / I said, "How long?" / [Verse 2] / It was one dull morning / I woke the world with bawling / I was so
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U2 – Peace On Earth (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / Heaven on Earth / We need it now / I'm sick of all of this / Hanging around / Sick of the sorrow / And sick of the pain / And sick of hearing again and again / That
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U2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close!) [Songs Of Surrender]
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[Verse 1] / Green light, 7-Eleven / You stop in for a pack of cigarettes / You don't smoke, don't even want to / Hey now, check your change / Dressed up like a car crash / Your
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U2 – Electrical Storm (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / The sea, it swells like a sore head / And the night, it is aching / Two lovers lie with no sheets on their bed / And the day it is breaking / [Pre-Chorus 1] / On rainy
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U2 – Lights Of Home (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / I shouldn't be here 'cause I should be dead / I can see the lights in front of me / I believe my best days are ahead / I can see the lights in front of me / Oh, Jesus
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U2 – Red Hill Mining Town (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / From father to son / The blood runs thin / Ooh, our faces frozen stiff / Against the wind / [Verse 2] / The seam was split / The coal-face cracked / The lines were so
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U2 – City Of Blinding Lights (Songs Of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / The more you see, the less you know / The less you find out as you grow / I knew much more then than I do now / Neon heart, dayglo eyes, a city lit by fireflies / They'
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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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Trinidad Cardona – Jennifer
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This song is about how he messed up badly and had sex with Caroline, while he was “with” Jennifer. (Trinidad has said him and Jenny weren’t really dating.) He wrote this song as an
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U2 – Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (Songs of Surrender)
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[Verse 1] / Tough, you think you've got the stuff / You're telling me and anyone / You're hard enough / You don't have to put up a fight / You don't have to always be right / Let
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