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U2: The Best of 1980-1990 / B-Sides

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Island Records
Released: 1998
Time:
 65:28 / 63:46
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.u2.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1998.12.12
Price in €: 14,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


U2 The Best Of 1980-1990:
[1] Pride (In The Name Of Love)
[2] New Year's Day
[3] With Or Without You
[4] I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
[5] Sunday Bloody Sunday
[6] Bad
[7] Where The Streets Have No Name
[8] I Will Follow
[9] The Unforgettable Fire
[10] Sweetest Thing - (The Single mix)
[11] Desire
[12] When Love Comes To Town
[13] Angel Of Harlem
[14] All I Want Is You

The B-Sides:
[1] The Three Sunrises
[2] Spanish Eyes
[3] Sweetest Thing (Original)
[4] Love Comes Tumbling
[5] Bass Trap
[6] Dancing Barefoot
[7] Everlasting Love
[8] Unchained Melody
[9] Walk To The Water
[10] Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
[11] Hallelujah Here She Comes
[12] Silver And Gold
[13] Endless Deep
[14] A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
[15] Trash, Trampoline And The Party Girl

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


THE EDGE - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
PAUL "Bono Vox" HEWSON - Vocals, Guitar
ADAM CLAYTON - Bass
LARRY MULLEN Jr. - Drums, Percussion

Additional personnel:
B.B. KING - Vocals, Guitar
UNA O'KANE - Strings
NICOLA CLEARY - Strings
AENGUS O'CONNOR - Strings
NICHOLAS MILNE - Strings
THE MEMPHIS HORNS - Horns
JOEY MISKULIN - Organ
BENMONT TENCH - Keyboards
MS. BOBBYE HALL - Percussion
REBECCA EVANS RUSSELL - Background vocals
PHILLIS DUNCAN - Background vocals
HELEN DUNCAN - Background vocals

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


As one of the most popular bands of the '80s, U2 didn't quite fit into any particular category. They were a post-punk band that quickly found acceptance from a hard rock audience, a group that made fully formed albums but often made their best statements on individual songs, especially during the '80s. Consequently, they're a very hard band to anthologize. Since they were most effective on single songs, it seems that throwing all of them together on one disc would work. The problem is, each of the albums, from Boy to Rattle & Hum, has a distinctive flavor that doesn't necessarily blend when combined, especially in the non-chronological form of The Best of 1980-1990. There's little quibbling with the featured tracks on U2's first compilation -- a few important songs, such as "Gloria," "I Fall Down," "Seconds" and "Two Hearts Beat As One," may be missing, but everything else deserves to be here ("Pride," "New Year's Day," "With or Without You," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Bad," "Desire," etc.). Even though the song selection is strong, the album winds up as less the sum of its parts -- each song is pretty great of its own accord (even the single mix of the B-side, "Sweetest Thing," which is, in truth, not much different at all), but the overall effect is a little underwhelming. On one hand, it may be a good choice for casual fans or nostalgia mongers, since it does contain everything they need to hear, but anyone who has more than a passing interest in the band will be better suited with individual albums.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide



They burst onto the scene at the onset of the '80s with a majestic, uplifting, earnest approach and a unique textural sound that endeared them to fans and critics alike. U2 spent the rest of the decade growing up in public, solidifying their status as post-punk icons, marrying the good intentions of old school alternative rock with the epic sonic scale of classic '70s rockers, never sounding less than totally original and never pausing for a hits compilation--until now. BEST OF offers a good representation of the complex body of work that made the band a legend.

Fittingly, the album begins with the debut's "I Will Follow" a statement of commitment to pursuing truth and spirituality despite continual and inevitable misgivings. "Desire" mates Bono's lyrical fervor with a modified Bo Diddley beat to fine effect. New world meets old on the bluesy B.B. King collaboration "When Love Comes to Town." Closing things out, "All I Want is You" shows the moody, reflective side of the band, giving Bono a chance to croon and the rest of the band to exhibit the understated side of their instrumental might.



Exclusive Review from VH1 Online:

The question, when considering a greatest hits album by a band as ingenious as U2, is why? Why, after a career of stretching creative and musical limits, would they drop back and release a greatest hits album, something they've been reported as saying they wouldn't do?

In The Best of 1980-1990, all the standby singles are present. And while the songs have the same primal emotional impact, nothing new is presented. Except for a re-mix of "Sweetest Thing" which was originally supposed to be on The Joshua Tree, but wasn't finished in time. It later appeared as a B-side. I prefer the original. True, it's not as polished, and doesn't include the new mix's ironic harmonies. It's rougher, but more genuine in it's intensity and gives the song a poignancy which is lost in the re-mix.

The release would have more variety if some of U2's lesser-known hits were included. Songs like "One Tree Hill", "Redhill Mining Town", "Gloria" and "40" are painfully not present.

Regardless, the epic scope of U2's music from that era creates its own world. Compiling it like this with time's generous perspective allows us entrance into that world and our memories in a different way.

Elizabeth Gariti, © 1998 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.



Island and U2 realized that longtime fans of the band wouldn't need The Best of 1980-1990. Unlike the proposed The Best of 1990-2000, which would likely boast the non-LP "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" and the Passengers' "Miss Sarajevo," 1980-1990 contained nothing but material culled directly from the albums, which didn't exactly entice hardcore followers. So, the label and the band decided to pair the compilation with a collection of the group's B-sides from the '80s, none of which had ever appeared on an album before. For diehard U2 fans, this is something of a godsend -- not necessarily a holy grail, which would have been a complete B-sides collection, including the long-missing early EPs -- since many of these tracks have been out of print for years. That's not to say they'll be entirely pleased with what they hear. The B-Sides is wildly uneven, fluctuating between a handful of lost masterpieces ("Spanish Eyes," "Sweetest Thing," "Hallelujah Here She Comes," "Silver and Gold," "A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel," "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl"), a momentum-crushing triptych of mediocre karaoke ("Dancing Barefoot," "Everlasting Love," "Unchained Melody") and gormless filler (pretty much everything else). Despite the uneven music, fans will need The B-Sides, not just for the handful of worthy contenders, but for its sheer rarity. Not only have the B-sides themselves been difficult to locate, but the disc itself was designed as a collectors' item: after the first week of sales, The B-Sides was pulled from the market, and Island shipped only The Best of 1980-1990. Clearly, this was a tactic to raise press awareness and boost sales, but that doesn't mean that fans shouldn't take advantage of its limited release.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide



Over 75 million albums and twenty years since their formation at Dublin's Mount Temple High School in 1978 - at the instigation of Larry Mullen who pinned an ad to the bulletin board - there's little denying that U2 have cemented their reputation as a classic rock 'n' roll band. Moreover, by learning to roll with the punches down the years, together they have shared the memorable victories, and rare defeats, of an extraordinary career thus far. Remarkably, two decades on, they remain intact. No-one has ever left U2, no new member has ever joined. In the tradition of the late '70s, U2 were a band before they could actually play, although all four members testify to the raw chemistry and unique spirit of the group being there from the outset. Burning with the intense energy of punk, the nascent U2 reacted against the burgeoning blank attitudes of their doomy, raincoat-wearing new wave contemporaries, emerging with wide-eyed hope.

Their first one-off Irish release, the U23 EP for CBS Records in 1979, was supported by a self-organised tour that left no-one doubting that U2 were driven men. Despite no offers of a major record deal following a round of London showcase gigs, the tour culminated in a sold-out show in front of two thousand fans in Dublin - a rare achievement for a band that, to all intents, remained unsigned. Further bolstering their reputation, in January 1980, the band topped five categories in the readers' poll of Irish rock magazine Hot Press. In April of that year, U2 signed to Island Records, releasing their first single, 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, the following month.

Over the next three years, U2 went from strength to strength, chiefly due to their relentless touring and blistering live performances which regularly found Bono going to often extraordinary lengths to capture the audience's imagination: scaling PA stacks without the aid of a safety net; teetering along the lip of theatre balconies; turning his back to the front rows and then free-falling into a sea of hands. Their first three Steve Lillywhite-produced albums - Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (their first UK No.1 in 1983, yielding the breakthrough hits New Year's Day and Two Hearts Beat As One) - defined a widescreen rock that clearly didn't have a roof over its head.

Furthermore, U2 were fast being regarded as the most politically motivated band since The Clash. At a Belfast show, before the first public airing of the provocative Sunday Bloody Sunday Bono bluntly announced "If you don't like it, let us know..." . What became clear was that U2 - on both political and emotional levels - were beginning to connect with a far wider audience worldwide. In the wake of 1983's Under A Blood Red Sky, a live document of the group's landmark performance at Colorado Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the writers of Rolling Stone magazine named U2 Band Of The Year.

Early in 1984, U2 made the surprising announcement that experimentalist Brian Eno (David Bowie, Talking Heads) and his protege Daniel Lanois were to produce their fourth studio album. Recorded in the suitably cavernous ballroom of Slane Castle, near Dublin, The Unforgettable Fire offered a new, expansive, cinematic U2 sound as evidenced in Pride (In The Name Of Love), their biggest hit up to that point in both the UK and the States. The seemingly never-ending tour that followed witnessed the band sell out New York's Madison Square Garden and make their pivotal appearance at Live Aid in 1985 before, in 1996, they headlined Amnesty International's Conspiracy Of Hope Tour.

The following year, U2 were touted as "Rock's Hottest Ticket" on the cover of Time magazine, following the release of their fifth album The Joshua Tree, which won the distinction of the fastest-selling UK album ever by going platinum within its first 48 hours on sale. The staggering success of the record - fuelled by hits With Or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Where The Streets Have No Name - would far exceed even the band's own expectations, as it reached number 1 in twenty-two countries with worldwide sales of fifteen million copies. By 1987, awarded with Grammys for #Album Of The Year# and #Best Rock Performance#, U2 were quite simply the biggest rock band in the world.

What followed was U2's grandest gesture yet. Rattle And Hum - a Hollywood-funded film chronicling The Joshua Tree tour, directed by Phil Joanou and accompanied by a Jimmy Iovine-produced double soundtrack album of live tracks and new studio material - emerged in October 1988. The project traced U2 cutting their own, individualistic path down through the roots of blues and rock 'n' roll: collaborating with BB King on When Love Comes To Town; scoring their first UK number one single with the rootsy Desire.

By the end of the '80s, however, it seemed U2 had looked so deep into the past, they'd forgotten about their own future. At the close of their Lovetown tour of Australia, New Zealand and Japan, U2 performed four triumphant homecoming shows in Dublin. On the final night, New Year's Eve, 1989, Bono made a strong, symbolic hint that the band were on the verge of significant change.

"This is just the end of something for U2," he announced to an estimated radio audience of 500 million, tuning in via the BBC and RTE. "It's no big deal, it's just that we have to go away and dream it all up again."

At the close of that decade, few could have predicted the transformation that U2 would undergo with the dawning of the '90s. Ready for the laughing gas, U2 travelled to Hansa Studios in Berlin and re-emerged in November 1991 with Achtung Baby , before launching the Zoo TV live experience, widely lauded as the Sgt. Pepper of rock tours. The momentum of all of this propelled them through Zooropa - a planned single to be recorded in touring breaks that grew to an EP and eventually became their eighth album in 1993. Following that, in 1997, came their ninth album Pop and the lemon-scented sensory overload of the accompanying PopMart world jaunt.

As the millennium draws ever closer, U2 are alive, well and living in Dublin.



Im vergangenen lief doch fast täglich ein Titel von U2 im Radio: sweetest thing. Nach dem 97er Album "Pop" wieder etwas neues von der erfolgreichen Band? Nein, nur eine neue Version des Hits von 1987. Die 87er Version findet sich auf der zweiten CD dieses Albums "The Best Of 1980-1990". Auf dieser CD sind die B-Sides der 80er Jahre. Die andere CD enthält eine gelungene Zusammenstellung der größten Hits, wie z.B. "Pride", "With or without you", "Where the streets have no name" und natürlich die Neuauflage von "Sweetest Thing". Nach mehr als 30 Jahren im Musikgeschäft ist wohl auch Zeit für ein Best Of-Album von U2. Nur Schade vielleicht, daß es sich auf den Zeitraum von 1980 bis 1990 beschränkt. Aber die belanntesten U2-Hits stammen nun mal aus der Zeit. Durch die B-Sides erfährt das Album eine gelungene Abwechslung. Die sollte man dann einlegen, wenn man "Sunday Bloody Sunday" nicht mehr hören mag.



It may be hard to remember, but before "Lemon," before they became ego-imprisoned rock stars with an overweening interest in hanging out with supermodels, U2 used to be quite good, actually. If the band's superlative two-disc Best of package (the limited-edition release that also includes B-sides) does nothing else, it highlights the ultimate hollowness of the band's current Dark Period, which they will hopefully soon be leaving. The first disc includes every hit (except for a curiously missing "Two Hearts Beat as One") from "I Will Follow" to "All I Want Is You," and will serve to remind everyone who loves U2 why they once had good reason to do so. But it's the second disc, which contains previously import- only rarities like "Dancing Barefoot and "Everlasting Love," that is truly indispensable: After all, who wouldn't rather hear an obscure gem like "Hallelujah, Here She Comes" than the fine-but-overplayed "Pride" for the fifty millionth time? Disc Two also contains the beyond-wonderful original version of the cult classic "Sweetest Thing" -- compare that to the recently redone version on Disc One that is a tarted-up and unlistenable atrocity. U2 would be well off to leave the past alone. At this point, it's all most fans have left.

Allison Stewart, Copyright © 1994-1999 CDNow, Inc. All rights reserved.



The question, when considering a greatest hits album by a band as ingenious as U2, is why? Why, after a career of stretching creative and musical limits, would they drop back and release a greatest hits album, something they've been reported as saying they wouldn't do? In The Best of 1980-1990, all the standby singles are present. And while the songs have the same primal emotional impact, nothing new is presented. Except for a re-mix of "Sweetest Thing" which was originally supposed to be on The Joshua Tree, but wasn't finished in time. It later appeared as a B-side. I prefer the original. True, it's not as polished, and doesn't include the new mix's ironic harmonies. It's rougher, but more genuine in it's intensity and gives the song a poignancy which is lost in the re-mix.

The release would have more variety if some of U2's lesser-known hits were included. Songs like "One Tree Hill", "Redhill Mining Town", "Gloria" and "40" are painfully not present.

Regardless, the epic scope of U2's music from that era creates its own world. Compiling it like this with time's generous perspective allows us entrance into that world and our memories in a different way.

© 1999 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 

 L y r i c s


Pride (In the Name of Love)

One man come in the name of love,
One man come and go.
One man come, he to justify,
One man to overthrow,
In the name of love,
What more in the name of love.

One man caught on a barbed wire fence,
One man he resist.
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss.
In the name of love,
What more in the name of love.

Early morning, April 4.
A shot rings out in the Memphis sky.
Free at last, they took your life,
But they could not take your pride.
In the name of love,
What more in the name of love.


New Year's Day

All is quiet on New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
And I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day

I will be with you again
I will be with you again

Under a blood-red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few,
The newspapers say, say, say it's true
And we can break through,
Though torn in two, we can be one

I will begin again, I will begin again
Oh and maybe the time is right
Oh maybe tonight

I will be with you again
I will be with you again

And so we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's day


"With or Without You"

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Slight 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

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body's bruised
She's got me with nothing left to win
And nothing left to lose

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live with or without you


"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

I have climbed the highest mountain
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you

I have run, I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But 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
And all my shame
All my shame
You know I believe it

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for


Sunday, Bloody Sunday

I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long?

Tonight we can be as one, tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across a dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

And the battle's just begun,
There's many lost, but tell me who has won?
Trenches dug within our hearts,
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long?
Tonight we can be as one
Tonight, tonight

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your blood shot eyes

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and T.V. reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On a Sunday bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday


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.

To let it go,
And so to fade away.
To let it go,
And so fade away.

I'm wide awake.
I'm wide awake.
I'm not sleeping.
Oh, no, no.

If you should ask then maybe
They'd tell you what I would say.
True colors fly in blue and black,
Bruised silken skies and burning flak
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes.

If I could, you know I would.
If I could, I would let it go.

This desparation.
Dislocation.
Separation.
Condemnation.
Revelation.
In temptation.
Isolation.
Desolation.

Let it go,
And so to fade away.
To let it go,
And so fade away.

Oh, no
I'm wide awake.
I'm wide awake.
I'm not sleeping.
Oh, no no


Where the Streets Have No Name

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

I want to feel sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear
Without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

The city's a flood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see love
See our love turn to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do


I Will Follow

I was on the outside, when you said, you said you needed me.
I was looking at myself, I was blind, I could not see.

A boy tries hard to be a man, his mother takes him by the hand,
If he stops to think, he starts to cry.
Oh why?

If you walkaway, walkaway
I walk away, walkaway - I will follow.

I was on the inside, when they pulled the four walls down,
You we're looking through the window, I was lost, I am found.

If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway - I will follow.

(Your eyes make a circle, I see you when you go in there)

If you walkaway, walkwaway
I walkaway, walkaway - I will follow
I will follow
I will follow...


The Unforgettable Fire

Ice,
Your only rivers run cold.
These city lights,
They shine as silver and gold,
Dug from the night.
Your eyes as black as coal.

Walk on by, walk on through,
walk till you run.
And don't look back,
For here, I am.

Carnival, the wheels fly and the colors spin
through alcohol.
Red wine that punctures the skin.
Face to face in a dry and waterless place.

Walk on by, walk on through,
So sad to beseige your love so head on.
Stay in this time.
Stay tonight, in a lie.
I'm only asking, but I think you know.
Come on take me away.
Come on take me away.
Come on take me home.
Home again.

And if the mountains should crumble,
or disappear into the sea.
Not a tear, no, not I.
Stay in this time,
Stay tonight in a lie.
Ever after this love in time.
And if you save your love, save it all, save it all.
Don't push me too far tonight.


Sweetest Thing

My love she throws me like a rubber ball
Oh, the sweetest thing
She won't catch me, or break my fall
Oh, the sweetest thing

Baby's got blue skies up ahead
but in this I'm a rain cloud
You know she wants a dry kind of love
Oh, the sweetest thing

I'm losing you,
I'm losing you,
Ain't love the sweetest thing?

I wanted to run but she made me crawl
Oh, the sweetest thing
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw
Oh, the sweetest thing
I know I got black eyes, but they burned so brightly for her
Guess it's a blind kind of love
Oh, the sweetest thing

I'm losing you
I'm losing you
Ain't love the sweetest thing?
Ain't love the sweetest thing?

Blue eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl
Oh, the sweetest thing
You can sew it up, but you still see the tear
Oh, the sweetest thing

Baby's got blue skies up ahead
But in this I'm a rain cloud
Ours is a stormy kind of love

Oh, the sweetest thing
The sweetest thing
Oh, the sweetest thing


Desire

Yeah

Lover, I'm on the street
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar on fire
Desire

She's a candle burning in my room
Yeah I'm like the needle, needle and spoon
Over the counter with a shotgun
Pretty soon everybody got one
And the fever when I'm beside her
Desire

And the fever getting higher
Desire, desire
Burning, burning

She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah she's a promise
In the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
Like a preacher stealing hearts
In a traveling show
For love or money, money, money
Money, money, money, money, money
Money, money, money
And the fever, getting higher
Desire, desire, desire, desire
Desire, desire


When Love Comes To Town

I was a sailor, I was lost at sea
I was under the waves before love rescued me
I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread
Now I stand accused of the things I've said

Love comes to town, I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town

I used to make love under a red sunset
I was making promises I was soon to forget
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown
But I left her standing before love came to town

I ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream
The notes were turning blue, I was dazed and in a dream
As the music played, I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town

When love comes to town, I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town

I was there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide

When love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that train
When love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town


Angel of Harlem

It was a cold and wet December day
When we touched the ground at JFK
Snow was melting on the ground
On BLS I heard the sound of an angel
New York, like a Christmas tree
Tonight this city belongs to me, angel

Soul love, this love won't let me go
So long Angel of Harlem

Birdland on fifty-three
The street sounds like a symphony
We got John Coltrane and a love supreme,
Miles, and she's got to be an angel
Lady Day got diamond eyes
She sees the truth behind the lies, angel

Soul love, this love won't let me go
So long Angel of Harlem
Angel of Harlem

She says it's heart, heart and soul
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah

Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded, you lost your way
Through the side streets and the alleyway
Like a star exploding in the night
Falling to the city in broad daylight
An angel in Devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an angel
Yeah yeah, Angel of Harlem

Angel, Angel of Harlem


All I Want Is You

You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want your story to remain untold
But all the promises we make from the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
Treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night

You say you'll give me eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make from the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say you want your love to work out right
To last with me through the night
You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold your love not to grow cold

All the promises we break from the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You
All I want is you
All I want is you
All I want is you



B-sides

The Three Sunrises

Spirit of the rising sun lift me up
Hold me there and never let me fall
Love me 'til I die, my heart won't wait
Soon I will be down...in this love

Love, love song
Love, love song
Hey, hey, love won't find
Find it's own way home

It's a love song, love
Love, love song

Sunshine, sunshine on me
Sunshine, sunshine on me
In this love song, love song
Hey Hey, love won't find
Find it's way home

In this love song
Love song, love song
Sunshine, sunshine on me
Bring it through to my home
I will give you everything
I will give you my desire
Love song, love song


Spanish Eyes

Hey, hey, baby hang on
Baby hang on

Hang to your heart
Beat tight like a drum set
Hang on to your love
See it shine like a song
Hey, hey, baby hang on 

Our love it shines like rain
In those spanish eyes, spanish eyes 

Hey, hey, here she comes
Comes in colours
You know she gonna turn the daylight on
Cause I love the way you talk to me
And I love the way you walk on me
And I need you
More than you need me
Our love, shines like rain
In those spanish eyes, spanish eyes 

Across the world
For green and gold
It's those spanish eyes
That get me home
Home again 

Hey, hey, baby hang on
Hey, hey, you know that
The night is young
Dazzled by lights that
Shine in your eyes
I'm standing in the shadows
And wait for the night
Forever in fever
Forever in heat
You pick me up to put me out on the street 

Hey, hey, baby hang on, hang on
Hey, hey, baby hang on, hang on
Cause I love the way you talk to me
And I love the way you need me
And I need you.


The Sweetest Thing

My love she throws me like a rubber ball
Oh, the sweetest thing
She won't catch me, or break my fall
Oh, the sweetest thing

Baby got blue skies up ahead
but in this I'm a rain cloud
You know she like a dry kind of love
Oh, the sweetest thing

I'm losing you,
Yeah, I'm losing you,
Ain't love the sweetest thing?

I wanted to run but she made me crawl
Oh, the sweetest thing
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw
Oh, the sweetest thing

You know I got black eyes, but they burned so brightly for her
Mine is a blind kind of love
Oh, the sweetest thing

I'm losing you
I'm losing you
Ain't love the sweetest thing?
The sweetest thing

Blue eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl
Oh, The sweetest thing
You can sew it up, but you still see the tear
Oh, the sweetest thing

Baby got blue skies up ahead
and in this I'm a rain cloud
You know we got a stormy kind of love

Oh, the sweetest thing
The sweetest thing
Thank God,
The sweetest thing


Love Comes Tumbling

Love don't need to find a way
You find your own way
I forget that I can't stay
And so I say that
All roads lead to where you are
All roads lead to where you are

The seed is spilled, the bed defiled
For you a virgin bride
Find yourself in someone else
Don't find yourself in me

I can't lift you up again
Love comes tumbling down again

Love don't need to find a way
You find your own way
I forget that you can stay
And so I say that
All roads lead to where you are
All roads lead to where you are


Bass Trap

Instrumental


Dancing Barefoot

She is a benediction
She is addicted to me
She is the root connection
And she is connecting with me

Here I go and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taken over me

I'm dancing barefoot
Headed for the spin
Some strange music drags me in
It makes me come out like some heroine

She is sublimation
She is the essence of he
She is concentrating on he
Who is chosen by she

Here I go and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taken over me?

I'm dancing barefoot
Headed for the spin
Some strange music drags me in
Make me come out like some heroine

She is recreation
She intoxicated by thee
She has the slow sensation
And he is levatating with she

here I go and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly
Until I lose my sense of gravity

I'm dancing barefoot
Headed for the spin
Some strange music drags me in
Make me come out like some heroine

Oh God I feel for you
Oh God I feel for you
Oh God I feel for you
Oh God I feel for you.


Everlasting Love

Hearts gone astray
Keeping up when they go
I went away
Just when you needed me so
You won't regret
I'll come back begging you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew
Yeah

Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here I stand with my
Everlasting love

Need you by my side
Come and be my pride
You'll never be denied
Everlasting love

From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got
Everlasting love

This love will last forever
This love will last forever

Hearts gone astray
Keeping up when they go
I went away
Just when you needed me so
You won't regret it
I'll come back begging you
Don't you forget
Welcome love we once knew
Yeah

When life really flows
No one really knows
The sun will have to show them
Everlasting love

Like the sun it shines
Endlessly it shines
You always will be mine
Eternal love

Whenever love went wrong
Ours would still be strong
We'd have our own
Everlasting love

This love will last forever
This love will last forever

Open up your eyes
Then you'll realize
Here I stand with my
Everlasting love

Need you by my side
Come and be my pride
Never be denied
Everlasting love

From the very start
Open up your heart
Feel the love you've got

Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love
Everlasting love


Unchained Melody

Oh
Oh my love
Oh my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine

I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me

Lonely rivers fall to the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh
Wait for me
Wait for me
I'll be coming home
Wait for me

Oh
Oh my love
Oh my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long and lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine

I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me
Speed to me
God speed your love to me

Need your love
Need your love
Need your love
I need your love

Need your love
Need your love
Need your love
I need your love

Need your love
Need your love
Need your love
I need your love


Walk to the Water

She said it wasn't cold
She left her coat at home
She wore canvas shoes, white canvas shoes
Around her neck she wore a silver necklace
It was given to me by my father she said
It was given to me ...

She took the back way home
Past the lights at Summerhill
Turned left onto the north strand
And on, back towards the sea

He said he was an artist
But he really painted billboards
In large capital letters
Large capital letters
He was telling jokes
Nobody else would listen to him...

I saw you that day
Your lips were cherry red
Your legs were crossed and your arms wide open
Your hair was colored gold
And like a field of corn
You were blown by the wind
You were blown by the wind

Walk, walk, walk, to the water
Walk with me awhile
Walk, walk, walk to the waterside
Walk me in the light

A room in the royal hotel
With sea-facing views
A man with a suitcase
Full of things he doesn't need
I'm looking through your window
I'm walking through your doorway
I'm on the outside
Let me in...

Let me, love you
Let me, love you
Let me ...

Walk, walk, walk, to the water
Walk with me, yeah
Walk, walk, walk, to the waterside
Walk with me awhile


Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)

Hey sister love
Hey sister soul
Hey, oh my love
Can't turn me around tonight
Hey, sister love
Save my soul
Save my soul

Hold onto love
Hold onto love
Don't want to let you go
Don't want to let you go
Hold onto love
See the sunshine in your soul

Hey, sister love
Hey, see the sunlight

She comes like carnival
She is the big wheel
She turned my head around
Turned my head around
She is the speedway
She is the slipstream
She is comin' round

Hold onto love
Hold onto love
Love won't let you go
Hold onto love
Hold onto love

See the sunlight in your soul
See the sunlight in your soul

She is the gunfire
She is the car crash
She is the avalanche
She is the thunder
She is the waves and she pulls me under

I love you cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you cause I understand
That God has given me your hand
It holds me in a tiny fist
But still I need your kiss
Hold onto love...

See the sunlight in your soul
See the sunlight in your soul


Hallelujah, Here She Comes

I see you dressed to kill
I know I can't wait until...
Hallelujah, here she comes
I see you dressed in black
I guess I'm not coming back
Hallelujah, here she comes
Born and raised on the wrong side of town
You get so high, you can't come down (yeah)

I see the road is rough
You know I'm not giving up
Hallelujah, here she comes
I know where the lady goes
I know she got a ring on her toes
Hallelujah, here she comes
Born and raised on the wrong side of town
You get so high, you can't come down

I'm goin' higher, higher, higher on love
Higher, higher, higher on love
I'm gonna be there when that light gonna shine
I'm gonna be there when her heart kindles next to mine
I'm gonna be ... here she comes
Yeah, here she comes

I see you dressed to kill
I know I can't wait until...
Hallelujah, here she comes
I see you dressed in black
I guess I'm not coming back
Hallelujah, here she comes
Born and raised on the wrong side of town
You get so high, you can't come down

I'm goin' higher, higher, higher on love
Higher, higher, higher on love
I'm gonna be there when that light gonna shine

(scat singing)


Silver & Gold

In the shithouse a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
Only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town
Tin can town

No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fell down
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground
Chained to the ground
The warden said
The exit is sold
If you want a way out
Silver and gold

Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence, it's crawling
It crawls under the door
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun
Jesus say something
I am someone, I am someone
I am someone

Captain and kings in the ships hold
They came to collect silver and gold
Silver and gold

See the coming and going
See them captains and the kings
See them navy blue uniforms
See them bright and shiny things
Bright, shiny things

The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister, I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you got
Chains no longer bind me
Not the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free
Set them free
Set them free

A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts, silver and gold
Silver and gold


Endless Deep

Instrumental


A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel

From where I stand
I can see through you
From where you're sitting pretty one, I know it got to you
See the stars in your eyes
You want the truth, but you need the lies
Like Judy Garland, like Valentino,
You give your life for rock and roll, uh huh

Stand!
We're on the landslide of love!
You got everything you want,
And what you need you give away

For a primitive love, and a ride on the mystery train
A primitive love
A room at the heart, heartbreak hotel
A room at the heartbreak, heartbreak hotel
A room at the heartbreak, heartbreak hotel

You say it's love, it's not the money
You let them suck your life out like honey
Turning tricks
You're on the street selling your kisses so bittersweet

(I love it! -- yeah --
Buy me again!
I want to know pretty baby...
I want to know...
Oooh.. the price is too hard to pay!)

A primitive love, and a ride on the mystery train
A primitive love
A room at the heart, heartbreak hotel
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Hallelujah, said halle-hello to ya'
Said Hallelujah

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(Hallelujah)
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Trash, Trampoline, and the Party Girl

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