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  Bono's Bible | Biblical Allusions in U2 Songs

DESPAIR


If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind. BAD

I feel like I'm slowly, slowly, slowly slippin' under

I feel like I'm holding on to nothing. LEMON 

This desperation, dislocation, separation, condemnation... in temptation, isolation. BAD

Twilight, darkened day
Twilight, lost my way
Twilight, night and day
Twilight, can't find my way. TWILIGHT

It was one dull morning
I woke the world with bawling
I was so sad…
I had the feeling it was out of control. OUT OF CONTROL

I've got no hope in this world
Just you
And you are not mine. STATELESS

Started a landslide in my ego
Looked from the outside to the world I left behind
In the world I left behind
Wipe their eyes and then let go
In the world I left behind
Shed a tear and let love go. A DAY WITHOUT ME

Sadie said she couldn't work out what it was all about
And so she let go…
She got herself up on the 48th floor
Gotta find out, find out what she's living for. SURRENDER 


It's your own late show as you jump to the street below

But where can you go to leave yourself behind?
Alone in the spotlight of this, your own tragedy. RED LIGHT

Three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet, there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel hits the ground. STAY (FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!)    


Such a cold heart
Such a cold man
Watch you tear your self apart…
Cold these eyes, I can't believe it
So deep inside a cold fire
Cold, this heart is slow... heart is stone. WIRE

Love is drowning in a deep well
All the secrets, and no one to tell... LOVE IS BLINDNESS


I will not forsake, the colours that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing. STUCK IN A MOMENT YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF

Let it go
And so to fade away. BAD
See Themes
God Shaped Hole

See Quotes
Changing The World
God Shaped Hole
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