Originally posted by Genaro92U2:This is like the new Mercy. We all want it official or live but probably wont til like a huge box set years from now.
Originally posted by gwiz:[..]
box set......oooooooooo....that would be epic
does anyone remember this? I hope it does happen 
Originally posted by Genaro92U2:[..]
Didnt paul mcguiness say that one day years from now when the bands no longer around we will see like EVERYTHING DVDS DEMOS, EPS. ETC.
Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]
I can't top your explanation of it, but I've done what you did. I put it straight after Cedars. I think it's a nice way to top off the album - from those majestic opening notes, Edge chiming in perfectly to Bono's beautifully descriptive, yet almost self-loathing lyrics (the thought of him talking like he's still 25 is very interesting also) and that hauntying operatic outro. Just a perfect song. I won't forgive the band for leaving it off the album.
Favourite lyric: "There's no army in this world that can find a ghost"
Originally posted by vanquish:
I really hope it's finished and on Songs of Ascent. They can't do this to Winter AND Mercy.
The yellow sun
Well, it took the hand
Of a country boy
To a city in a far-off land
We made no mark
No shadow at all
On the ancient, holy streets
Where I learned to crawl
The broken and the bruised
The young and the used
The sure and confused
All here
Words will then land on me
Then abandon me
Mangle, untangle me
Leave me on the floor
Rhymes, they sprang in me
Summer sang in me
But summer sings in me no more
Now I'm twenty-five
And trying to stay alive
In a corner of the world
With no clear enemies to fight
It's hot as hell
We're like butter on toast
But there's no army in this world
That can fight a ghost
The broken and the bruised
The young and the used
The sure and confused
All here
Words will then land on me
Then abandon me
Leave me stranded
In guard of the door
Rhymes began in me
Summer sang in me
But summer sings in me no more
Listening to the cries
The strangers
The silence of the foreign grave
Listening to the thunder
The sky is strange
Stretched over everyone
Listening to the tales
The child sings
That goes for days and days
Listening to the calls
Shouts, frustration
At twenty-one
I was born a son
And on that day I knew
I could kill
To protect the ones
We put bullets in guns
Or anything it takes
To take a life until it's still
Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]
I can't top your explanation of it, but I've done what you did. I put it straight after Cedars. I think it's a nice way to top off the album - from those majestic opening notes, Edge chiming in perfectly to Bono's beautifully descriptive, yet almost self-loathing lyrics (the thought of him talking like he's still 25 is very interesting also) and that hauntying operatic outro. Just a perfect song. I won't forgive the band for leaving it off the album.
Favourite lyric: "There's no army in this world that can find a ghost"
Originally posted by MWSAH:Would have been in my top5 of the album if it was on it.
Originally posted by U2fan:PM for me to please. Thanks.
