Stay

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Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
by U2, from the album Zooropa (1993) [watch it on YouTube*]

Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don’t smoke, don’t even want to
Hey now, check your change

Dressed up like a car crash
Your wheels are turnin’ but you’re upside down
You say when he hits you, you don’t mind
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive
Is that what it is?

Red lights, grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who’s around

You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip-synch to the talk shows
And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don’t feel a thing

If I could stay, then the night would give you up.
Stay, and the day would keep its trust.
Stay, and the night would be enough.

Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio.
With satellite television
You can go anywhere:
Miami, New Orleans
London, Belfast and Berlin

And, if you listen, I can’t call
And, if you jump, you just might fall
And, if you shout, I’ll only hear you

If I could stay, then the night would give you up
Stay, and the day would keep its trust
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay, and the night would be enough

Three o’clock in the morning
It’s quiet, there’s no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel hits the ground.

The song that got me hooked to U2.

So close, yet so far.

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* Universal Music puts the video on YouTube for all the world to see, yet doesn’t allow it to be embedded elsewhere. Go figure the primitive logic of these corporations!