Saturday, August 21, 2010

U2 "Every Breaking Wave";" I thought I heard the Master’s voice/ It’s hard to listen while you preach"

Finally, from tonight in Helsinki, we get the concert premeire  (stripped down) of this new song, likely to be on "Songs of Ascent."  Here below is the inevitable YouTube (to watch in context of whole concert, see 27 minutes mark here)


Bono at the end: "No one's heard that before including the two of us":


Every breaking wave
On the shore
Tells the next one there'll be one more
Every gambler knows
That to lose
Is what you’re really there for
Somewhere else, fearlessness
Now I’m speaking to an answer phone
Every falling leaf
On the breeze
Winter wouldn’t leave her alone
Ay hey now
Ay hey now
I don’t know if I’m that strong
I don’t know if I’m that strong
Don’t know if I’m that strong
To be somebody
To need someone
Every sailor knows that the sea
Is a friend made enemy
Every shipwrecked soul
Knows what it is
To live without intimacy
I thought I heard the Master’s voice
It’s hard to listen while you preach
Like every broken wave
On the shore
This is as far as I can reach
Ay hey now
Ay hey now
I don’t know if I’m that strong
I don’t know if I’m that strong
Don’t know if I’m that strong
Got to be somebody
To need someone
The waves know
We’re on the rocks
Drowning is no sin
You know
That my heart
Is the same place Yours has been
We know
Here with
The end before it begins
The waves know
We’re on the rocks
Drowning is no sin
You know
That my heart
Is the same place yours has been
We know
Here with
The end before it begins

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