10 Canciones de… U2
1. A Man and a Woman.
Little sister
I’ve been sleeping in the street again
Like a stray dog
Little sister
I’ve been trying to feel complete again
But you’re gone and so is God
The soul needs beauty for a soul mate
When the soul wants…the soul waits …
No I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
For love and faith and sex and fear.
And all the things that keep us here
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
How can I hurt when I’m holding you?
Para mi todas las letras de U2 tienen algo muy personal. Incluso cuando eran mas de protesta social, pero ultimamente U2 se ha hecho mas personal para mostrarnos lo que sentimos y somos por dentro. Esta canción es muestra de ello pues nada mas basico que un hombre y una mujer
2. Bad
If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would let it go, surrender, dislocate
If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
Into the night and through the rain
Into the half-light and through the flame
If I could through myself set your spirit free
I’d lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light and to the day
De las viejas e insuperables canciones de U2, inmerecidamente desconocida, con una letra impresionante y una melodia de su mejor estilo clasico.
3. Bullet the blue sky
This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he’s peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
You take the staircase to the first floor
Turn the key and slowly unlock the door
As a man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls you hear the city groan
Outside is America
Outside is America
Across the field you see the sky ripped open
See the rain through a gaping wound
Pounding on the women and children
Who run
Into the arms
Of America
En el sitial de los mejores albums de musica popular de la historia seguramente esta The Joshua Tree. Pues bien, para mi esta es la mejor canción de ese album, cuando U2 era mas reclamista y rebelde, pero que bien le salia.
4. God Part II
Don’t believe in cocaine
Got a speed-ball in my head
I could cut and crack you open
Do you hear what I said
Don’t believe them when they tell me
There ain’t no cure
The rich stay healthy
The sick stay poor
I…I believe in love
Don’t believe in Goldman
His type like a curse
Instant karma’s going to get him
If I don’t get him first
Don’t believe in rock ‘n’ roll
Can really change the world
As it spins in revolution
It spirals and turns
I…I believe in love
Don’t believe in the 60′s
The golden age of pop
You glorify the past
When the future dries up
Heard a singer on the radio late last night
He says he’s gonna kick the darkness
’til it bleeds daylight
I…I believe in love
Otra caracterisitica de U2, es su curiosa relación con Dios, estos irlandeses Catolicos mas de una vez le cantan una canción y esta es muy buena, donde en realidad dicen que creen en el amor… equiparandolo a Dios.
5.I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well yes I’m still running
You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
El primer gran hit de esta lista es una profunda reflexión sobre Dios y su busqueda, del vacio de no tener a Dios dentro de nuestros corazones, de buscarlo afuera cuando en realidad esta adentro.
6. In a litte while
In a little while
Surely you’ll be mine
In a little while I’ll be there
In a little while
This hurt will hurt no more
I’ll be home, love
When the night takes a deep breath
And the daylight has no end
If I crawl, if I come crawling home
Will you be there
In a little while
I won’t be blown by every breeze
Friday night running
To Sunday on my knees
That girl, that girl
She’s mine
And I’ve known her since
Since she was a little girl
With Spanish eyes
Oh, when I saw her
In a pram they pushed her by
My, how you’ve grown
Well it’s been
It’s been a little while
Slow down my bleeding heart
A man dreams one day to fly
A man takes a rocketship into the skies
He lives on star that’s dying in the night
And follows in the trail
The scatter of light
Turn it on
Turn it on
You turn me on
Slow down my bleeding heart
Slowly, slowly love
Slow down my bleeding heart
Slowly, slowly love
Slow down my beating heart
Slowly, slowly love
Una de las mejores canciones de amor de la historia, copio toda la canción para que la lean y la entiendan.
7. With or without you
See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you
With or without you
With or without you
Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I’m waiting for you
With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
Imposible dejar de meter esta canción, no solo es muy famosa, es que me gusta aun mucho, no importa cuantas veces la oiga y de hecho es la primera canción que oi de U2. Es una preciosa canción de un amor conflictivo.
8. Original of the species
Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart
I’ll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
And I kneel ’cause I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you’re not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You don’t have to be shy about it
Alguna vez dedique esta canción a una mujer tan especial que no pude retener, se me escapo como arena de mar entre los dedos, entre mas intente apretar mas se escapaba… incluso a veces la extraño.
9. One
Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much? More than a lot
You gave me nothin’ now it’s all I got
We’re one but we’re not the same
Well we hurt each other then we do it again
You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl
And I can’t be holdin’ on to what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love, one blood
One life, you got to do what you should
One life, with each other
Sisters, brothers
One life but we’re not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One
Contrario a lo que muchos piensan que One es una canción acerca de ser uno con el ser amado, es mas bien un grito a la individualidad y a la tolerancia. Excelente canción.
10. Stay (Far away, so close)
Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don’t smoke, don’t even want to
Hey now, check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
Your wheels are turning but you’re upside down
You say when he hits you, you don’t mind
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive
Hey babe, is that what it is
Red lights, gray morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depend’s on who’s around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows
And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don’t feel a thing
If I could stay…
Then the night would give you up
Stay…and the day would keep its trust
Stay…and the night would be enough
Una de mis peliculas preferidas “Faraway, so close” es una historia sobre angeles y el vacio de la humanidad. Pues bien, nadie mejor que U2 para cantar al respecto.
Si, se quedaron muchas por fuera, que se le va a hacer, pero estas fueron mis 10 preferidas.











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