전세계 900만장 판매고를 기록한 2004년 발매 앨범 [How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb] 이후 약 4년 반 만에 발매하는 U2의 12번째 정규 앨범 [No Line On The Horizon]
이번 앨범은 Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite를 프로듀서로 초빙하여 2008년 부터 모로코를 시작으로 U2의 더블린 스튜디오, 뉴욕 등지에서 녹음 되었고, 최종적으로 런던의 올림픽 스튜디오에서 완성 되었다. 리드 보컬 보노의 말을 빌리면 ?지금까지??노래와는 완전히 다른 사운드로 이 세상에 존재하는 노래들과도 완전히 다른 사운드?라고 언급하며 새 앨범에 대한 많은 팬들의 기대를 더욱 증폭시키고 있다.
총 11곡의 신곡을 담고 있는 [No Line One The Horizon]의 첫 싱글로 공개된 Get On Your Boots는 Q 매거진에서 초창기의 로큰롤 리프를 채용한 미래 지향적 독특한 일렉트로 그런지로 찬사를 보냈으며, 많은 유수의 매체들도 앞다투어 극찬을 아끼지 않고 있다. .... ....
I was born I was born to be with you In this space and time After that and ever after I haven`t had a clue Only to break rhyme This foolishness can leave a heart Black and blue
Only love Only love can leave such a mark But only love Only love can heal such a scar
I was born I was born to sing for you I didn’t have a choice But to lift you up And sing whatever song you wanted me to I give you back my voice From the womb my first cry It was a joyful noise Oh, oh
Only love Only love can leave such a mark But only love Only love can heal such a scar
Justified till we die You and I will magnify Oh, the magnificent Magnificent
Only love Only love can leave such a mark But only love Only love unites our hearts
Justified till we die You and I will magnify Oh, the magnificent Magnificent Magnificent
I tied myself with wire To let the horses run free Playing with the fire Till the fire played with me
The stone was semi-precious We were barely conscious Two souls too smart to be In the realm of certainty Even on our wedding day
We set ourselves on fire Oh God, do not deny her It’s not if I believe in love But if love believes in me Oh, believe in me
At the moment of surrender I folded to my knees I did not notice the passers-by And they did not notice me
I’ve been in every black hole At the altar of the dark star My body’s now a begging bowl That’s begging to get back Begging to get back to my heart To the rhythm of my soul To the rhythm of my unconsciousness To the rhythm that yearns To be released from control
I was punching in the numbers At the ATM machine I could see in the reflection A face staring back at me At the moment of surrender Of vision over visibility I did not notice the passers-by And they did not notice me
I was speeding on the subway Through the stations of the cross Every eye looking every other way Counting down ’til the pain will stop
At the moment of surrender Of vision of over visibility I did not notice the passers-by And they did not notice me
I was lost between the midnight and the dawning In a place of no consequence or company 3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face Speed-dialing with no signal at all
Go, shout it out, rise up Oh, oh Escape yourself and gravity Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak Shush now Oh, oh Force quit and move to trash
I was right there at the top of the bottom On the edge of the known universe Where I wanted to be I had driven to the scene of the accident And I sat there waiting for me
Restart and re-boot yourself You’re free to go Oh, oh Shout for joy if you get the chance Password, you, enter here, right now
Oh, oh You know your name so punch it in Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak Shush now Oh, oh Then don’t move or say a thing
She’s a rainbow and she loves the peaceful life Knows I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight There’s a part of me in the chaos that’s quiet And there’s a part of you that wants me to riot
Everybody needs to cry or needs to spit Every sweet tooth needs just a little hit Every beauty needs to go out with an idiot How can you stand next to the truth and not see it Oh, a change of heart comes slow
It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain As you start out the climb Do you believe me or are you doubting We’re gonna make it all the way to the light But I know I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight
Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won’t listen to your boys and girls ‘Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven’t heard Is it true that perfect love drives out all fear The right to appear ridiculous is something I hold dear Oh, but a change of heart comes slow
It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain As you start out the climb Listen for me, I’ll be shouting We’re gonna make it all the way to the light But you now I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight
Baby, baby, baby I know I’m not alone Baby, baby, baby I know I’m not alone
Oh oh oh
It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain As we start out the climb Listen for me, I’ll be shouting Shouting to the darkness Squeeze out sparks of light
You know we’re gonna go crazy You know we’ll go crazy You know we’ll go crazy if we don’t go crazy tonight
The future needs a big kiss Winds blows with a twist Never seen a moon like this Can you see it too Night is falling every where Rockets at the fun fair Satan loves a bomb scare But he won't scare you Hey sexy boots Get on your boots yeah You free me from the dark dream Candy floss ice cream All our kids are screaming But the ghosts aren't real Here's where we gotta be Love and community Laughter is eternity If joy is real You don't know how beautiful You don't know how beautiful you are You don't know and you don't get it do you You don't know how beautiful you are
That's someone's stuff they're blowing up We're into growing up Women of the future Hold the big revelations I got a submarine You got gasoline I don't want to talk about wars between nations Not right now Hey sexy boots Get on your boots yeah Not right now Bossy boots You don't know how beautiful You don't know how beautiful you are You don't know and you don't get it do you You don't know how beautiful you are sexy boots I don't want to talk about the wars between the nations Sexy boots yeah Let me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound sound Let me in the sound sound Meet me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound now God I'm going down I don't wanna drown now Meet me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound sound Let me in the sound sound Meet me in the sound Get on your boots Get on your boots Get on your boots Yeah hey hey Get on your boots Yeah hey hey Get on your boots Yeah hey hey Get on your boots Yeah hey hey
I got to stand up and take a step You and I have been asleep for hours I got to stand up The wire is stretched In between our two towers Stand up in this dizzy world Where a lovesick eye can steal the view I’m gonna fall down if I can’t stand up For your love
Love love love love love
Stand up, this is comedy The DNA lotto may have left you smart But can you stand up to beauty Dictator of the heart I can stand up for hope, faith, love But while I’m getting over certainty Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady
Oh, oh Out from under your beds C’mon, ye people Stand up for your love
Love love love love love Love love love love love
I gotta stand up to ego but my ego’s not really the enemy It’s like a small child crossing an eight lane highway On a voyage of discovery
Stand up to rock stars Napolean is in high heels Josephine, be careful Of small men with big ideas
Oh, oh Out from under your beds C’mon, ye people Stand up for your love
Love love love love love Love love love love love
God is love And love is evolution’s very best day
Soul rockin’ people moving on Soul rockin’ people on and on C’mon, ye people We’re made of stars C’mon, ye people Stand up then sit down for your love
Love love love love love Love love love love love Love love love love love Love love love love love
Let me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound, sound Let me in the sound, sound Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound, sound Let me in the sound, sound Let me in the sound
Oh oh oh oh
Six o’clock On the autoroute Burning rubber, burning chrome Bay of Cadiz and ferry home Atlantic sea, cut glass African sun at last
Oh oh oh oh
Lights flash past Like memories A speeding head, a speeding heart I’m being born, a bleeding start The engines roar, blood-curdling wail Head first, then foot Then heart sets sail
Where I came from there were no hills at all The land was flat, the highway straight and wide My brother and I would drive for hours Like we had years instead of days Our faces as pale as the dirty snow
Once I knew there was a love divine Then came a time I thought it knew me not Who can forgive forgiveness where forgiveness is not Only the lamb as white as snow
And the water, it was icy As it washed over me And the moon shone above me
Now this dry ground, it bears no fruit at all Only poppies laugh under the crescent moon The road refuses strangers The land, the seeds we sow Where might we find the lamb as white as snow
As boys we would go hunting in the woods To sleep the night shooting out the stars Now the wolves are every passing stranger Every face we cannot know If only a heart could be as white as snow If only a heart could be as white as snow
16th of June, nine-oh-five, door bell rings Man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer There’s a few things I need you to know Three
Coming from a long line of Traveling sales people on my mother’s side I wasn’t gonna buy just anyone’s cockatoo So why would I invite a complete stranger into my home Would you
These days are better than that These days are better than that
Every day I die again, and again I’m reborn Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street With arms out Got a love you can’t defeat Neither down nor out There’s nothing you have that I need I can breathe Breathe now
16th of June, Chinese stocks are going up And I’m coming down with some new Asian virus Ju Ju man, Ju Ju man Doc says you’re fine, or dying Please
Nine-oh-nine, St. John Divine on the line, my pulse is fine But I’m running down the road like loose electricity While the band in my head plays a striptease
The roar that lies on the other side of silence The forest fire that is fear so deny it
Walk out into the street Sing your heart out The people we meet Will not be drowned out There’s nothing you have that I need I can breathe Breathe now Yeah, yeah
We are people borne of sound The songs are in our eyes Gonna wear them like a crown
Walk out, into the sunburst street Sing your heart out, sing my heart out I’ve found grace inside a sound I found grace, it’s all that I found And I can breathe Breathe now
Yesterday I spent asleep Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap Spent the night trying to make a deadline Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline
I have your face here in an old Polaroid Tidying the children’s clothes and toys You’re smiling back at me I took the photo from the fridge Can’t remember what then we did
I haven’t been with a woman, it feels like for years Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
Return the call to home
The worst of us are a long drawn out confession The best of us are geniuses of compression You say you’re not going to leave the truth alone I’m here ‘cos I don’t want to go home
Child drinking dirty water from the river bank Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank I’m waiting on the waiter, he’s taking a while to come Watching the sun go down on Lebanon
Return the call to home
Now I’ve got a head like a lit cigarette Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret You’re so high above me, higher than everyone Where are you in the cedars of Lebanon
Choose your enemies carefully ‘cos they will define you Make them interesting ‘cos in some ways they will mind you They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friends
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전세계 900만장 판매고를 기록한 2004년 발매 앨범 [How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb] 이후 약 4년 반 만에 발매하는 U2의 12번째 정규 앨범 [No Line On The Horizon] 이번 앨범은 Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite를 프로듀서로 초빙하여 2008년 부터 모로코를 시작으로 U2의 더블린 스튜디오, 뉴욕 등지에서 녹음 되었고, 최종적으로 런던의 올림픽 스튜디오에.....