Posted by Jay on February 25, 2007, at 17:53:33
In reply to What's your favorite U2 song?, posted by saturn on February 24, 2007, at 20:15:15
Ahhhh..damn only I would turn this into an opera..lol. I heard the first few words to this song and I *knew* (without still being 'told') that my best friend had died when I was 19. March 21, 1989..he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. After I heard this song in the car, and pulled in the driveway, I got the phonecall. The song is called 'A Sort of Homecoming'.
A Sort Of Homecoming
And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance.And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, 'desire' time
And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape.On borderland we run.
I'll be there, I'll be there tonight
A high-road, a high-road out from here.The city walls are all come down
The dust a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields that once
Gave no resistance.And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill as the valleys explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of it's own.O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say I
O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say IOh, oh on borderland we run
And still we run, we run and don't look back
I'll be there, I'll be there
Tonight, tonightI'll be there tonight, I believe
I'll be there so high
I'll be there tonight, tonight.Oh com-away, I say, o com-away, I say.
The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz.
No spoken words, just a scream
Tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again tonight.And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance.
Oh, don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight at last I am coming home.
I am coming home.
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