IX. Achtung Baby
1. Zoo Station
I'm ready
Ready for the laughing gas
I'm ready
Ready for what's next
Ready to duck
Ready to dive
Ready to say
I'm glad to be alive
I'm ready
Ready for the push
In the cool of the night
In the warmth of the breeze
I'll be crawling around
On my hands and knees
She's just down the line... Zoo Station
Got to make it on time... Zoo Station
I'm ready
Ready for the gridlock
I'm ready
To take it to the street
Ready for the shuffle
Ready for the deal
Ready to let go
Of the steering wheel
I'm ready
Ready for the crush
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright... it's alright
Hey baby... hey baby... hey baby... hey baby
it's alright
it's alright
Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass
I'm just down the line from your love... Zoo Station
Under the sign of your love... Zoo Station
I'm gonna be there... Zoo Station
Tracing the line... Zoo Station
I'm gonna make it on time... make it on time... Zoo Station
Just two stops down the line... Zoo Station
2. Even Better Than The Real Thing
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 between
Give me one more chance
Let me be your lover tonight
(Check it out)
You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Give me one last chance
And I'm gonna make yousing
Give me half a chance
To ride on the waves that you bring
You're a honey child to a swarm of bees
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze
Give me one last chance
We'll slide on the surface of things
You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
We're free to fly the crimson sky
The sun won't melt our wings tonight
Oh now
Here she comes
Take me higher
Take me higher
Can you take me higher?
Will you take me higher?
You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing
3. One
Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you
Now you got someone to blame
You say
One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
It's one love
We get to share it
It leaves you baby
If you don't care for it
Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's too late
Tonight
To drag the past out
Into the light
We're one
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One
Have you come here for forgivness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
We hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life but we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One
One
4. Until The End Of The World
Haven't seen you in quite a while
I was down the hold, just passing time
Last time we met it was a low-lit room
We were as close together as bride and groom
We ate the food, we drank the wine
Everybody having a good time
Except you
You were talking about the end of the world
I took the money, I spiked your drink
You miss too much these days if you stop to think
You led me on with those innocent eyes
And you know I love the element of surprise
In the garden I was playing the tart
I kissed your lips and broke your heart
You, you were acting like it was the end of the world
In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
In waves of regret, waves of joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You, you said you'd wait until the end of the world
5. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
You're danngerous 'cos you're honest
You're dangerous 'cos you don't know what you want
Well you left my heart
Empty as a vancant lot
For any spirit to haunt
Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey
You're an accident
Waiting to happen
You're a piece of glass
Left there on the beach
Well you tell me things
I know you're not supposed to
Then you leave me
Just out of reach
Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey sha la la la
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?
Well you stole it
'Cos I needed cash
And you killed it
'Cos I wanted revenge
Well you lied to me
'Cos I asked you to
Baby... can we still be friends?
Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey sha la la la
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?
The deeper I spin
The hunter will sin... for your ivory skin...
Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees the river laughing
At you and me...
Halluijah, heavens white rose
The doors you open
I just can't close
Don't turn around
Don't turn around
Don't turn around
Your gypsy heart
Don't turn around
Don't turn around again
Don't turn around
And don't look back
Come on now love
Don't you look back
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna taste your salt water kisses?
Who's gonna take the place of me?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?
6. So Cruel
We crossed the line
Who pushed who over?
It doesn't matter to you
It matters to me
We're cut adrift
But still floating
I'm only hanging on
To watch you go down... my love
I disappeared in you
You disappeared from me
I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted
The men who love you, you hate the most
They pass right through you like a ghost
They look for you but your spirit is in the air
Baby... you're nowhere
You say in love there are no rules
Sweetheart
You're so cruel
Desperation is a tender trap
It gets you every time
You put your lips to her lips
To stop the lie
Her skin is pale like God's only dove
Screams like an angel for your love
Then she makes you watch her from above
And you need her like a drug
You say in love there are no rules
Sweetheart
You're so cruel
She wears my love like a see-through dress
Her lips say one thing
Her movements something else
Oh love
Like a screaming flower
Love
Dying every hour
And you don't know if it's fear or desire
Danger the drug that takes you higher?
Head of heaven
Fingers in the mire
Her heart is racing... you can't keep up
The night is bleeding like a cut
Between the horses of love and lust
We are trampled underfoot
You say in love there are no rules
Sweetheart
You're so cruel
To stay with you I'd be a fool
Sweetheart
You're so cruel
7. The Fly
It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
It's no secret that our world is in drakness tonight
They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by a moon
Y'know I don't see you when she walks in the room
It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help
It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else
They say a secret is something you tell one other person
So I'm telling you... child
A man will beg
A man will crawl
On the sheer face of love
Like a fly on a wall
It's no secret at all
Love, we shine like a
Burning star
We're fallin' from
The sky... tonight
It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest
It's no secret that ambition bites the nails of succcess
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief
A man will beg
A man will crawl
On the sheer face of love
Like a fly on a wall
It's no secret at all
Love, we shine like a
Burning star
We're fallin' from
The sky... tonight
Oh yeah
It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
The universe exploded 'cosa one man's lie
Look I gotta go
Yeah I'm running outta change
There's a lot of things
If I could I'd rearrange
8. Mysterious Ways
Johnny take a walk
With your sister the moon
Let her pale light in
To fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand
She's slippy
You're sliding down
She'll be there
When you hit the ground
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
Johnny take a dive
With your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things
You can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel... (on your knees boy!)
She's the wave
She turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
Lift my days... light up my nights
One day you'll look back
And you'll see
Where
You were held now
By this love
While
You could stand
There
And not move on this moment
Follow this feeling
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright
We move through miracle days
Spirit moves in mysterious ways
She moves with it
She moves with it
Lift my days and light up my nights
9. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
6:00 in the morning
You're the last to hear the warning
You've been tryin' to throw your arms around the world
You've been falling off the sidewalk
Your lips move but you can't talk
Tryin' to throw your arms around the world
I'm gonna run to you... run to you... be still
I'm gonna run to you... run to you... woman I will
Sunrise like a nosebleed
Your head hurts and you can't breathe
You've been tryin' to throw your arms around the world
How far are you gonna go
Before you loose your way back home?
You've been tryin' to throw your arms around the world
I'm gonna run to you... run to you... woman be still
I'm gonna run to you... run to you... woman I will
I dreamed that I saw Dali
With a supermarket trolley
He was tryin' to throw his arms around a girl
He took an open-top beetle
Through the eye of the needle
He was tryin' to throw his arms around the world
I'm gonna run to you... run to you... woman be still
I'm gonna run to you... run to you... woman I will
Nothin' much to say I guess
Just the same as all the rest
Been tryin' to throw my arms around the world
A woman needs a man
Like a fish needs a bicycle
When your tryin' to throw your arms around the world
I'm gonna run to you... run to you
I'm gonna run to you... run to you
I'm gonna run to you... run to you
Woman be still... woman be still
Be still... woman be still
Woman I will
10. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checking out
I wanna get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love it won't be long...
Oh sugar
Don't you cry
Oh child
Wipe the tears from your eyes
You know I need you to be strong
And the day is as dark as the night is long
Feel like trash
You make me feel clean
I'm in the black
Can't see or be seen
Baby Baby Baby light my way
You bury your treasure
Where it can't be found
But your love is like a secret
That's been passed around
There is a silence that comes to a house
Where no one can sleep
I guess that's the price of love
I know it's not cheap
Baby Baby Baby light my way
I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
And I heard opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed
Baby Baby Baby
Baby Baby Baby
Baby Baby Baby light my way
Baby Baby Baby
Baby Baby Baby
Baby Baby Baby light my way
11. Acrobat
Don't believe what you hear
Don't believe what you see
If you just close your eyes
You can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl
You had fire in your soul
What happened your face
Of melting snow?
Now it looks like this!
And you can swallow
Or you can spit
You can throw it up
Or choke on it
And you can dream
So dream out loud
You know that your time is coming 'round
... don't let the bastards grind you down
No nothing makes sense
Nothing seems to fit
I know you'd hit out
If you only knew who to hit
And I'd join the movement
If there was one I could believe in
Yeah I'd break bread and wine
If there was a church I could receive in
'Cos I need it now
To take the cup
To fill it up
To drink it slow
I can't let you go
And I must be
An acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And youcan dream
So dream out loud
... don't let the bastards grind you down
What are we going to do now it's all been said?
No new ideas in the house, and every book has been read
And I must be
An acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And you can find
Your own way out
You can build
And I can will
And you can call
I can't wait until
You can stash
And you can seize
In dreams begin
Responsibilities
And I can love
And I can love
I know that the tide is turning 'round
... don't let the bastards grind you down
12. Love Is Blindness
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Take my heart
Love is blindness
In a parked car
In a crowded street
You see your love
Made complete
Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness
Love is clockworks
And cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness
A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby... a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense
Love is drowning
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell
Take the money
Honey
Blindness
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness
1991 Island Records Ltd.
All songs written by Bono, music by U2, piblished by Chappell & Co. (ASCAP)
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