Running To Stand Still - U2

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Running To Stand Still - U2
Song-A-Week Challenge Season 3 Week 17

U2 has got to be one of my all time fave/most influential bands - Van Halen and Metallica being the other two. The Edge is a great guitarist, but I don’ think there’s another band that can write as uplifting choruses as they can. Like my other two fave band they are the perfect mix of showmanship and musicianship.

The Joshua Tree was on of the first albums I ever bought and is probably part of my DNA these days. So I figured time to learn another one from this masterpiece

My Song-A-Week Challenge is me (a non-singer) trying to learn, record and post a new song every week for one full year, because…why not? They are intended to be rough live performances rather than polished studio gems. The thinking is; move fast, make something, learn stuff, move on, don’t stop and have some fun. Tune in every Monday for the newest upload.

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So she woke up, woke up from where she was, lyin' still. Said
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I, I gotta do somethin' about where we're goin'
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Step on a steam train Step out of the driving rain, maybe
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Run from the darkness, in the night Singing

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Ah ah-la-la-la-de-day
A C. G
Ah ah-la-la-la-de-day
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Ah-la-la-de-day

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Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth
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I see seven towers, but I only see one way out You gotta
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cry without weeping, talk without speaking,
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scream without raising your voice You know I took the
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poison From the poison stream, then I floated, out of here

A C G
Ah ah-la-la-la-de-day
A C G
Ah ah-la-la-la-de-day
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Ah-la-la-de-day Oooooooooooo,
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Oooooooooooo, Ooo Ooo Ooo Oooooo

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She runs through the streets with eyes painted red
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Under a black belly of cloud in the rain
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In through a doorway, she brings me
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white gold and pearls stolen from the sea. She is
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raging, she is raging and a storm blows up in her eyes. She will,

A C G
suffer the needle chill,
A C G
She's running to stand
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still.


Thanks for looking,

Dan.