As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart*
--
* Love & Peace or Else by U2
“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.” ~Plato
As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart*
--Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow
White snow
Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze
Down below
When the future's architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You'd better lie low
If you love me
Won't you let me know?
Reaching out to touch a stranger
Electric eyes are ev’rywhere
See that girl, she knows I’m watching
She likes the way I stare
If they say, why, why? Tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way?
If they say, why, why? Tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way?
I like livin’ this way
I like lovin’ this way
Now I got love all over me
Baby you touch every part of me
Ooo I got love all over me
And I don’t want to get it off
I’m completely covered up in your love
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
Well that's all right because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
Well that's all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie *
What do you do when you know something's bad for you
And you still can't let go?
I was naïve
Your love was like candy
Artificially sweet
I was deceived by the wrapping
Got caught in your web
And I learned how to plead
I was prey in your bed
And devoured completely
And it hurts my soul
Cos I can't let go
All these walls are caving in
I can't stop my suffering
I hate to show that I've lost control
Cos I, I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need to walk away from
I need to get away from it
I need to walk away from it
Get away, walk away, walk away
I should have known
I was used for amusement
Couldn't see through the smog
It was all an illusion
Now I've been licking my wounds
Woke up in love and seems so great
We both can't subdue
Darling you hold me prisoner
I'm about to break
I can't stop this ache
I'm addicted to your lure
and I'm feeling for a cure
Every step I take
Leads to one mistake
I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need...
I can make it
It's some state I'm in
Getting nothing every time
What did I do to deserve
The pain of this moment
And everywhere I turn
I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need to walk away from
I need to get away from it
I need to walk away from it
Get away, walk away, walk away
Every time I try to grasp for air
I get smothered and this sky, it's never over, over
Seems I never wake from this nightmare
I let out a solid breath, let it be over, over
Inside I'm screaming
Breaking, pleading the world
Ahh...
My heart has been bruised
So sad but it's true
Each peep reminds me of you
It hurts my soul
Cos I can't let go
All these walls are caving in
I can't stop my suffering
I hate to show that I've lost control
Cos I, I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need...
To walk away from.