Songs of Innocence
U2
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1
The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
04 : 15
2
Every Breaking Wave
04 : 12
3
California (There Is No End to Love)
03 : 59
4
Song for Someone
03 : 46
5
Iris (Hold Me Close)
05 : 19
6
Volcano
03 : 14
7
Raised by Wolves
04 : 05
8
Cedarwood Road
04 : 25
9
Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
05 : 01
10
This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
05 : 05
11
The Troubles
04 : 45
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Track Lyrics
Iris (Hold Me Close) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The star
That gives us light
Has been gone a while
But it's not an illusion
The ache
In my heart
Is so much a part
Of who I am
[Pre-Chorus]
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years to get here
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years, a thousand years
[Chorus]
Hold me close
Hold me close and don't let me go
Hold me close
Like I'm someone that you might know
Hold me close
The darkness just lets us see
Who we are
I’ve got your light inside of me
[Post-Chorus]
Iris
Iris
[Verse 2]
Once
We are born
We begin to forget
The very reason we came
But you
I'm sure I've met
Long before the night the stars went out
We're meeting up again
[Chorus]
Hold me close
Hold me close and don't let me go
Hold me close
Like I'm someone that you might know
Hold me close
The darkness just lets us see
Who we are
I've got your light inside of me
[Post-Chorus]
Iris
Iris
[Interlude]
The stars are bright, but do they know
The universe is beautiful but cold?
[Bridge]
You took me by the hand
I thought that I was leading you
But it was you made me your man
Machine
I dream
Where you are
Iris standing in the hall
She tells me I can do it all
Iris wakes to my nightmares
Don't fear the world, it isn't there
Iris playing on the strand
She buries the boy beneath the sand
Iris says that I will be the death of her
It was not me
Iris
Iris
[Outro]
She says
Free yourself to be yourself
If only you could see yourself
Free yourself to be yourself
If only you could see
Volcano Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The world is spinning fast tonight
You can hurt yourself tryin' to hold on
To what you used to be
I'm so glad the past is all gone
[Pre-Chorus]
Been out in the wild
Been out in the night
Been out of your mind
Do you live here, or is this a vacation?
[Chorus]
Oh, volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know
Volcano
Something in you wants to blow
Volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know
[Verse 2]
Your eyes were like landing lights
They used to be the clearest blue
Now you don't see so well
The future's gonna land on you
[Pre-Chorus]
Been out in the wild
Been out in the night
Been out of your mind
Do you live here, or is this a vacation?
[Chorus]
Oh, volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know
Volcano
Something in you wants to blow
Volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know
You're on a piece of ground above a volcano
[Bridge]
You were alone
And now you're not alone
You were alone
You are rock 'n' roll
You and I are rock 'n' roll
You are rock 'n' roll
You and I are rock 'n' roll
[Chorus]
Oh, volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know
Volcano
Something in you wants to blow
Volcano
You don't wanna, you don't wanna know
You're on a piece of ground above a volcano
Raised by Wolves Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Face down on a broken street
There's a man in the corner in a pool of misery
I'm in a white van
As a red sea covers the ground
[Verse 2]
Metal crash, I can't tell what it is
But I take a look, and now I'm sorry I did
5:30 on a Friday night
Thirty-three good people cut down
[Refrain]
I don't believe anymore
I don't believe anymore
[Verse 3]
Face down on a pillow of shame
There's some girls with a needle trying to spell my name
My body's not a canvas
My body's now a toilet wall
[Refrain]
I don't believe anymore
I don't believe anymore
[Chorus]
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
Raised by wolves
We were raised by wolves
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
If I open my eyes
You disappear
[Verse 4]
Boy sees his father crushed under the weight
Of a cross in a passion where the passion is hate
Blue mink Ford
I’m gonna detonate, and you're dead
[Verse 5]
Blood in the house
Blood on the street
The worst things in the world are justified by belief
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[Refrain]
I don't believe anymore
I don't believe anymore
[Chorus]
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
Raised by wolves
We were raised by wolves
Raised by wolves
Stronger than fear
If I open my eyes
You disappear
Sleep Like a Baby Tonight Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Morning
Your toast, your tea and sugar
Read about a politician's lover
Go through the day like knife through butter
Why don't you?
[Verse 2]
You dress
In the colours of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair
[Chorus]
You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is all right
Tomorrow dawns like someone else's suicide
You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
[Verse 3]
Dreams
It's a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there's no daylight, there's no healing
No, no
[Chorus]
You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is all right
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
[Verse 4]
Hope
Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else's pain
[Chorus]
You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is all right
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams all take flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight
[Outro guitar solo]
This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now Lyrics
[Chorus]
Soldier, soldier
We signed our lives away
Complete surrender
The only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
[Verse 1]
We come from an ancient place
Beyond what we can see
We've come to colonise your night
And steal your poetry
Old Man knows that I never listen
So how could I have something to say?
Old Man knows how to cheat ambition
You don't lose if you don’t play
One, two, three, four was enough
[Chorus]
Soldier, soldier
We signed our lives away
Complete surrender
The only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
[Verse 2]
On a double-decker bus
Into College Square
If you won't let us in your world
Your world just isn't there
Old Man says that we never listen
We shout about what we don't know
We're taking the path of most resistance
The only way for us to go
Hup, two, three, four was enough
[Chorus]
Soldier, soldier
We signed our lives away
Complete surrender
The only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world will never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
[Outro]
This is the site
This is the season
This is where you can reach me now
This is the time
This is the number
This is where you can reach me now