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U2 - You're The Best Thing About Me
 Album:
Songs Of Experience (2017)
  1. Originally posted by CMIPalaeo: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
    Thanks! Updated
  2. Bono sounds great, doesn't he?
  3. from what I can hear, he sounds amazing love the melody/flow of the song, it so invites to sing along!
  4. I just had a doom and gloom thought about the lyrics...

    What if the "the best thing about me" has nothing to do with God or Ali or being something interpretive, and he's talking about music itself?

    "You're the best thing about me...why am I walking away?"

    :/
  5. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I just had a doom and gloom thought about the lyrics...

    What if the "the best thing about me" has nothing to do with God or Ali or being something interpretive, and he's talking about music itself?

    "You're the best thing about me...why am I walking away?"

    :/
  7. That was my first instinct as well.
  8. In terms of lyrics it is stronger than War, it has more clarity, like Bono said.
  9. When I first heard EBW I immediately thought about what a perfect articulation of "can we make this thing work" it was. But its such a consistent theme lyrically, I don't read it anything into it.
  10. Another lyric fix thanks to someone on Twitter.

    Also interesting, comparing with the beach clip:
  11. Originally posted by Remy:Another lyric fix thanks to someone on Twitter.

    Also interesting, comparing with the beach clip:
    Definitely like the latter better
  12. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I just had a doom and gloom thought about the lyrics...

    What if the "the best thing about me" has nothing to do with God or Ali or being something interpretive, and he's talking about music itself?

    "You're the best thing about me...why am I walking away?"

    :/
    Chill man.