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U2 - You're The Best Thing About Me
 Album:
Songs Of Experience (2017)
  3. Hmm I guess we will know soon.
  4. Interesting. I like it. But I hope it's a remix.
  5. OK, I think I've got all the lyrics worked out except the line in italics. Bold are differences from the first set of posted lyrics:

    When you look so good
    The pain in your face doesn't show
    When you look so good
    Baby, you don't even know
    When the world is ours
    And every door smells of fresh paint
    When the girl...[something] [might be Holy Ghost rather than girl?]
    Says it’s friction that makes you a saint
    When we've seen enough
    To know it's children that teach
    When you're free enough
    To wake up on a bed on a beach

    You're the best thing about me
    The best thing that ever happened to boy
    You're the best thing about me
    I'm the kind of trouble that you enjoy
    You're the best thing about me
    The best thing are easy to destroy
    You're the best thing about me

    Why…
    Why am I walking away?
    Why…
    Why am I walking away?

    I've been crying out
    How bad can a good boy be?
    Shooting off my mouth
    That's another great thing about me

    I got everything, but I feel like nothing at all
    There's no risky thing for a man who’s determined to fall

    You're the best thing about me
    The best thing that ever happened to boy
    You're the best thing about me
    I'm the kind of trouble that you enjoy
    You're the best thing about me
    The best things are easy to destroy
    Save me from myself

    The best thing
    The best thing
  6. The more I listen to this the more I feel tears welling up because I already love it and need it in my life.
  7. [redacted] Just got epically trolled by an evil friend. I have a hunch we *might* hear this at the closing ceremonies. Timing seems a little conspicuous.
  8. I can't get this thing out of my head! I dreamt for years about hearing U2 in discotheques.
  9. Wooooo

    I love the strings/guitar part in the "chorus". I can't even hear it super clearly but it's just so epic and beautiful.
  10. No matter how people feel about the music, those lyrics are as U2y as they come. Some of them walk the line between beautiful and cheesy, but overall... I really, really connect to the words in this song.
  11. Originally posted by CMIPalaeo:No matter how people feel about the music, those lyrics are as U2y as they come. Some of them walk the line between beautiful and cheesy, but overall... I really, really connect to the words in this song.
    Totally. Tim wrote a great piece about the lyrics and the recurring Girls and God/Girl or God? theme in Bonos lyrics. At least he's consistent....mysterious ways indeed....

    http://timneufeld.blogs.com/u2/2016/08/happy-anniversary-to-bono-and-ali-with-a-new-song.html