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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I'm not sure I know what it means, but I like the way it sounds. :)


    Running to Stand Still

    And so she woke up
    Woke up from where she was
    Lying still
    Said I gotta do something
    About where we're going

    Step on a steam train
    Step out of the driving rain, maybe
    Run from the darkness in the night
    Singing Ha, Ah La La La De Day
    Ah La La La De Day
    Ah La La De Day

    Sweet the sin
    Bitter taste in my mouth
    I see seven towers
    But I only see one way out

    You got to cry without weeping
    Talk without speaking
    Scream without raising your voice

    You know I took the poison
    From the poison stream
    Then I floated out of here
    Singing...Ha La La La De Day
    Ha La La La De Day
    Ha La La De Day

    She runs through the streets
    With her eyes painted red
    Under black belly of cloud in the rain
    In through a doorway she brings me
    White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
    She is raging
    She is raging
    And the storm blows up in her eyes
    She will...

    Suffer the needle chill
    She is running to stand

    Still.
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  • Madpoet
    Madpoet Posts: 8
    I'm a huge U2 and PJ fan.

    Running To Stand Still is a beautiful song.

    It's about a friend of Bono in Dublin who was a drug addict I think - very poignant - so glad they brought back the original version of it for the latest tour.
    Is death, that silent, dreamless situation
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  • showtime
    showtime Posts: 11
    i'm irish and i do not see what all the fuss is about U2, i think Bonno is the most self righteous git in the world, all this "niceness" and charity or politics work is just brilliant publicity and its obviously working, all u2 songs sound the same, the edge has only i effect that he uses on every song, bono has to kae his mind up weather he wants to be a politican or a musican. pearl jam are a million times a better band than U2
  • Madpoet
    Madpoet Posts: 8
    Respect your opinion mate - Bono does get up my nose sometimes but they have written lots of great songs.

    As for all their songs sounding the same - listen to the Zooropa and Pop albums - totally unlike any of their others.

    I totally understand WHY people hate U2 but I still have a soft spot for them as the band that got me thinking music could be serious and rock at the same time.
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  • oil alternative
    oil alternative Posts: 192
    u2 made a massive impact in my life, for me they opened the door to proper guitar music and it lead to me appreciating a whole load of different genres including pj. you can say you don't like bono but to say all their stuff sounds the same is like saying all pj stuff sounds the same which is bullshit mr handman, if u wanna hear shit that sounds the same 50 cent and all the other creaters of audio turd are waiting for you.
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  • Madpoet
    Madpoet Posts: 8
    You're dead right there.

    Every band that is distictive has their individual sound - PJ have theirs, for U2 Edge's delay guitar sound is unique - you know exactly who it is before you even hear Bono sing, same with Stone and Mike in PJ.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Saw them a week ago today in Oakland and they were fantastic. Very cool positive vibe running through the whole night.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • showtime
    showtime Posts: 11
    Madpoet wrote:
    Edge's delay guitar sound is unique.


    * cough, check out a band called "the cult" and amoungst others a little ditty called "she sells sanctuary" now theres a band
  • LedZepFan
    LedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    @showtime: yeah the cult had some similar guitar sounds but Edge's style is still all his own

    U2's amazing. I actually enjoy all eras of their music, but I think Joshua Tree-Achtung Baby was their peak. Bad and Running to Standstill are my current favorites. Bonos one of those guys, along with Vedder, I just think is awesome and I wish I could meet them. It really bugs me that he gets all sorts of criticism for trying to help people.

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  • pei_ling
    pei_ling Posts: 1
    i just have an incredible amount of respect for u2 for multiple reasons. one, they are a group of friends that started a band without really knowing how to play their instruments. that shows some great faith and dedication. and second, they use all that "star power" for greater causes...instead of 20 inch rims and some "ice."

    speaking of irish bands...whatever happened to the cranberries?
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    pei_ling wrote:
    i just have an incredible amount of respect for u2 for multiple reasons. one, they are a group of friends that started a band without really knowing how to play their instruments. that shows some great faith and dedication. and second, they use all that "star power" for greater causes...instead of 20 inch rims and some "ice."

    speaking of irish bands...whatever happened to the cranberries?

    I was thinking a similiar thing last week before the U2 show I saw. Just looking at the arena all set up with the elipse, etc. and I thought how cool it was to start a band in the late 70s and have it become such a huge thing that I would pay $50 to sit behind the stage!!!! (where the view was not bad at all).

    I did hear that when they formed they did not know how to play instruments (I think I saw it on VH1 legends a few years ago) and that has always stuck with me.
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  • Madpoet
    Madpoet Posts: 8
    Adam got fired from his first band because he couldn't play a note!!

    Some would say he still can't play!
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  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    I saw them at the Glendale Arena here in AZ. They were awesome, The Edge stole the show for me. Zoostation is a great song live.
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    harrylikesblack wrote:
    U2 is a great band. If Eddie Vedder likes them, that's cool. I was just thinking of how Bono and Eddie Vedder are two lead singers I find hard to criticize, two highly intelligent, bold, passionate, creative people. But maybe my next post will be about a mistake I think Eddie Vedder made.


    well, make this your next post please and let us all know what the mistake Ed made ? Thanks
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    If you twist and turn away.
    It you tear yourself in two again.
    If I could, yes I would
    If I could, I would let it go.
    Surrender, dislocate.

    If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind.
    Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
    Into the night, and through the rain
    Into the half light and through the flame.

    If I could, through myself, set your spirit free
    I'd lead your heart away, see you break, break away
    Into the light and to the day.

    To let it go and so to fade away.
    To let it go and so find away.
    I'm wide awake.
    I'm wide awake, wide awake.
    I'm not sleeping.

    If you should ask, then maybe
    They'd tell you what I would say
    True colours fly in blue and black
    Blue silken sky and burning flag.
    Colours crash, collide in blood-shot eyes.

    If I could, you know I would
    If I could, I would let it go.

    This desperation, dislocation
    Separation, condemnation
    Revelation, in temptation
    Isolation, desolation
    Let it go and so to find away
    To let it go and so to find away
    To let it go and so to find away

    I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, wide awake
    I'm not sleeping
    Oh no, no, no.


    Its Bad.
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Did you know Ed sang a little bit of that in Toronto recently?
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  • Madpoet
    Madpoet Posts: 8
    Didn't Ed join the band to play 'One' once - did I hear that or just imagine it??
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  • ACCBootlegGoddess
    ACCBootlegGoddess Posts: 4,318
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    If you twist and turn away.
    It you tear yourself in two again.
    If I could, yes I would
    If I could, I would let it go.
    Surrender, dislocate.

    If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind.
    Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
    Into the night, and through the rain
    Into the half light and through the flame.

    If I could, through myself, set your spirit free
    I'd lead your heart away, see you break, break away
    Into the light and to the day.

    To let it go and so to find away.
    To let it go and so find away.
    I'm wide awake.
    I'm wide awake, wide awake.
    I'm not sleeping.

    If you should ask, then maybe
    They'd tell you what I would say
    True colours fly in blue and black
    Blue silken sky and burning flag.
    Colours crash, collide in blood-shot eyes.

    If I could, you know I would
    If I could, I would let it go.

    This desperation, dislocation
    Separation, condemnation
    Revelation, in temptation
    Isolation, desolation
    Let it go and so to find away
    To let it go and so to find away
    To let it go and so to find away

    I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, wide awake
    I'm not sleeping
    Oh no, no, no.


    Its Bad.

    That there, is my #1 favourite U2 song of all time. Its on their album The Unforgettable Fire, for those not familiar with the band. It is hauntingly beautiful.
    And as justam pointed out, Ed sang a little bit of that as a tag...I think to daughter, but I'm not 100% sure here in Toronto.

    The other song they sang half of was "A Sort of Homecoming" from the same album. U2 themselves have never done that one on this side of the Atlantic, but its a beautiful song in it's own right.

    A Sort of Homecoming

    And you know it's time to go
    Through the sleet and driving snow
    Across the fields of mourning
    Light in the distance

    And you hunger for the time
    Time to heal, desire, time
    And your earth moves beneath
    Your own dream landscape

    Oh, oh, oh...
    On borderland we run...

    I'll be there
    I'll be there...
    Tonight
    A high road
    A high road out from here

    The city walls are all come down
    The dust, a smoke screen all around
    See faces ploughed like fields that once
    Gave no resistance

    And we live by the side of the road
    On the side of a hill
    As the valley explode
    Dislocated, suffocated
    The land grows weary of its own

    Oh, oh, oh...on borderland we run...
    And still we run
    We run and don't look back
    I'll be there
    I'll be there
    Tonight
    Tonight

    I'll be there tonight...I believe
    I'll be there...somehow
    I'll be there...tonight
    Tonight

    The wind will crack in winter time
    This bomb-blast lightning waltz
    No spoken words, just a scream...

    Tonight we'll build a bridge
    Across the sea and land
    See the sky, the burning rain
    She will die and live again
    Tonight

    And your heart beats so slow
    Through the rain and fallen snow
    Across the fields of mourning
    Light's in the distance

    Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
    For tonight, at last
    I am coming home
    I am coming home
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  • ACCBootlegGoddess
    ACCBootlegGoddess Posts: 4,318
    Madpoet wrote:
    Didn't Ed join the band to play 'One' once - did I hear that or just imagine it??

    2 days prior to Bono coming out at the Toronto show for RITFW, Ed came out at U2's show (also in Toronto) and sang Old Man River, which is what U2 tags on the end of One. It was an amazing, surreal site, and I'm blessed to have been there both nights.
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  • ACCBootlegGoddess
    ACCBootlegGoddess Posts: 4,318
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    If you twist and turn away.
    It you tear yourself in two again.
    If I could, yes I would
    If I could, I would let it go.
    Surrender, dislocate.

    If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind.
    Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
    Into the night, and through the rain
    Into the half light and through the flame.

    If I could, through myself, set your spirit free
    I'd lead your heart away, see you break, break away
    Into the light and to the day.

    To let it go and so to find away.
    To let it go and so find away.
    I'm wide awake.
    I'm wide awake, wide awake.
    I'm not sleeping.

    If you should ask, then maybe
    They'd tell you what I would say
    True colours fly in blue and black
    Blue silken sky and burning flag.
    Colours crash, collide in blood-shot eyes.

    If I could, you know I would
    If I could, I would let it go.

    This desperation, dislocation
    Separation, condemnation
    Revelation, in temptation
    Isolation, desolation
    Let it go and so to find away
    To let it go and so to find away
    To let it go and so to find away

    I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, wide awake
    I'm not sleeping
    Oh no, no, no.


    Its Bad.

    ohh btw...hate to be picky, but not sure what site you got the lyrics from but its not "find away"...its FADE away.


    BTW another song thats gets me emotional is from their new album. Its the song Bono wrote for his father.

    Sometimes You Can't Make It On your Own

    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 me take some of the punches
    For you tonight

    Listen to me now
    I need to let you know
    You don't have to go it alone

    And it's you when I look in the mirror
    And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
    Sometimes you can't make it on your own

    We fight all the time
    You and I, that's alright
    We're the same soul

    I don't need
    I don't need to hear you say
    That if we weren't so alike
    You'd like me a whole lot more

    Listen to me now
    I need to let you know
    You don't have to go it alone

    And it's you when I look in the mirror
    And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
    Sometimes you can't make it on your own

    I know that we don't talk
    I'm sick of it all
    Can you hear me when I sing...
    You're the reason I sing
    You're the reason why the opera is in me

    Where are we now?
    I've still got to let you know
    A house still doesn't make a home
    Don't leave me here alone

    And it's you when I look in the mirror
    And it's you that makes it hard to let go
    Sometimes you can't make it on your own

    Sometimes you can't make it
    Best you can do is to fake it
    Sometimes you can't make it on your own
    "Rock and roll is something that can't be quantified, sometimes it's not even something you hear, but FEEL!" - Bob Lefsetz

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