Resonant Lyrics

Have You Forgotten?

I can’t let you be
‘Cause your beauty won’t allow me

Wrapped in white sheets
Like an angel from a bedtime story

Shut out what they say
‘Cause your friends are fu.cked up anyway

When they come around
Somehow they feel up and you feel down

When we were kids
We hated things our parents did

We listened low
To Casey Kasem’s radio show

That’s when friends were nice
And to think of them just makes you feel nice

The smell of grass in spring
And october leaves covered everything

Have you forgotten how to love yourself?

I still can’t believe
All the good things that you did for me

Backyard summer pools
And Christmas trees were bright and full

And the sentiment
Of coloured mirrored ornaments

And the open drapes
Looked out on frozen farmhouse landscapes

Have you forgotten how to love yourself?

Have you forgotten how to love yourself?

Red House Painters

I’m so tired of playing,
Playing with this bow and arrow,
Gonna give my heart away,
Leave it to the other girls to play,
For I’ve been a temptress too long.

Hmm just,
Give me a reason to love you,
Give me a reason to be,
A woman,
I just wanna be a woman.

From this time, unchained,
We’re all looking at a different picture,
Through this new frame of mind,
A thousand flowers could bloom,
Move over, and give us some room.

Yeah,
Give me a reason to love you,
Give me a reason to be
A woman,
I just want to be a woman.

So don’t you stop being a man,
Just take a little look from our side when you can,
Sow a little tenderness,
No matter if you cry.

Give me a reason to love you,
Give me a reason to be,
A woman,
It’s all I wanna be is all woman.

For this is the beginning of forever and ever,
It’s time to move over ,
So I want to be.

I’m so tired of playing,
Playing with this bow and arrow,
Gonna give my heart away,
Leave it to the other girls to play.
For I’ve been a temptress too long.

Hmm just,
Give me a reason to love you

This song is a very sad few minutes spent with a young girl from an area in North Dublin City called Ballymun.. not far from where Bono grew up. The high rise development of seven tower blocks has only recently undergone demolition and redevelopment. At the time of this song’s composition in the mid eighties, Ballymun was at the depth of a decade of almost epidemic drug abuse – a dark dangerous slum – and horrific last dwelling suicide location for hopeless addicts.

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 the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out
You gotta 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 a 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’s running to stand..
Still

U2

This one’s for the girls
Who’ve ever had a broken heart
Who’ve wished upon a shooting star
You’re beautiful the way you are
This one’s for the girls
Who love without holding back
Who dream with everything they have
All around the world
This one’s for the girls

Snow Patrol You’re All I Have

Train this chaos turn it into light,
I’ve gotta see you one last night,
Before the lions take their share,
Leave us in pieces, scattered everywhere,

Just give me a chance to hold on,
Just give me something to hold onto,

It’s so clear now that you are all that I have,
I have no fear cause you are all that I have,

You’re cinematic razor sharp,
A welcome arrow through the heart,
Under your skin feels like home,
Electric shocks on aching bones,

Give me a chance to hold on,
Give me a chance to hold on,
Give me a chance to hold on,
Just give me something to hold on, to,

It’s so clear now that you are all that I have,
I have no fear cause you are all that I have,
It’s so clear now that you are all that I have,
I have no fear cause you are all that I have,

There is a darkness deep in you,
A frightning magic I cling too,

Give me a chance to hold on,
Give me a chance to hold on,
Give me a chance to hold on,
Just give me something to hold on, to,

It’s so clear now that you are all that I have,
I have no fear now you are all that I have,
It’s so clear now that you are all that I have,
I have no fear now you are all that I have.