U2 - Invisible

Já se sente o novo álbum... e que falta faz!

U2 - Invisible
It's like the room just cleared of smoke
I didn't even want the heart you broke
It's yours to keep
You just might need one

I finally found my real name
I won't be me when you see me again
Though I won't be my father's son

I'm more than you know
I'm more than you see here
More than you let me be
I'm more than you know
A body and a soul
You don't see me but you will
I am not invisible

I don't dream, not as such
I don't even think about you that much
Unless I start to think at all

All those frozen days
And your frozen ways
They melt away
Your face like snow

I'm more than you know
I'm more than you see here
I'm more than you let me be
I'm more than you know
A body and a soul
You don't see me but you will
I am not invisible
I am here

There is no them
There is no them
There's only us
There's only us

There is no them
There is no them
There's only us
There's only us

There is no them
There is no them
There's only you
There's only me

There is no them

Iluminará?

Conduzo e o sol bate-me de frente na face enquanto no rádio toca uma música, que  vai repetindo  um "light my way"... Será mesmo que me iluminará?

U2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way) - (Live@The Rose Bowl)

Bem sei que o Dia Internacional da Música já foi ontem, mas aqui fica o meu contributo.

Os enormes U2 e uma música que adoro desde o dia em que saiu o fantástico Achtung Baby... Curiosamente, faz hoje 3 anos que os vi pela última vez, no Estádio Cidade de Coimbra. Enormes...

U2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checking out.
I wanna get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love, it won't be long.

Oh, sugar, don't you cry.
Oh, child, wipe the tears from your eye.
You know I need you to be strong
And the day it as dark, as the night is long.
Feel like trash, you make me feel clean.
I'm in the black, can't see or be seen.

Baby, baby, baby, light my way.
Alright now, baby, baby, baby, light my way.

You bury your treasure where it can't be found
But your love is like a secret that's been passed around.
There is a silence that comes to our house
When no-one can sleep.
I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap.

Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way.
Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way

Baby, baby, baby, light my way.
I remember when we could sleep on stones.
Now we lie together in whispers and moans.
When I was all messed up and I heard opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed.

Baby, baby, baby, light my way
(Oh, come on)
Baby, baby, baby, light my way

(Ultraviolet - ultraviolet)
(Ultraviolet - ultraviolet)
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby, light my way

The Corrs & Bono - When the Stars Go Blue (Live 8)

Para quem diz que eu prefiro as loiras...

The Corrs - When The Stars Go Blue (featuring Bono)

Dancin' where the stars go blue

Dancin' where the evening fell

Dancin' in your wooden shoes

In a wedding gown

Dancin' out on 7th street

Dancin' through the underground

Dancin' little marionette

Are you happy now?

Where do you go when you're lonely

Where do you go when you're blue

Where do you go when you're lonely

I'll follow you

When the stars go blue, blue

When the stars go blue, blue

When the stars go blue, blue

When the stars go blue

Laughing with your pretty mouth

Laughing with your broken eyes

Laughing with your lover's tongue

In a lullaby

Where do you go when you're lonely

Where do you go when you're blue

Where do you go when you're lonely

I'll follow you

When the stars go blue, blue

When the stars go blue, blue

When the stars, when the stars go blue, blue

When the stars go blue

When the stars go blue, blue, blue

Stars go blue

When the stars go blue

Where do you go when you're lonely

Where do you go when you're blue, yeah

Where do you go when you're lonely

I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow you

I'll follow you, I'll follow you, yeah

Where do you go, yeah

Where do you go, Where do you go

U2 - New Year's Day - Live in Slane Castle 2001

U2 - New Year´s Day
Yeah...

All is quiet on New Year's Day.
A world in white gets underway.
I want to be with you, be with you night and day.
Nothing changes on New Year's Day.
On New Year's Day.

I... will be with you again.
I... will be with you again.

Under a blood-red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper says, says
Say it's true, it's true...
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one.

I... I will begin again
I... I will begin again.

Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh.
Oh, maybe the time is right.
Oh, maybe tonight.
I will be with you again.
I will be with you again.

And so we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day

U2 - In A Little While (Live in Boston)

Porque adoro...

U2 – In a Little While

In a little while
Surely you'll be mine
In a little while... I'll be there

In a little while
This hurt will hurt no more
I'll be home, love

When the night takes a deep breath
And the daylight has no air
If I crawl, if I come crawling home
Will you be there?

ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

In a little while
I won't be blown by every breeze
Friday night running to Sunday on my knees
That girl, that girl she's mine
Well I've known her since,
Since she was

A little girl with Spanish eyes
When I saw her first in a pram they pushed her by
Oh my, my how you've grown
Well it's been, it's been... a little while

ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Slow down my beating heart
A man dreams one day to fly
A man takes a rocket ship into the skies
He lives on a star that's dying in the night
And follows in the trail, the scatter of light
Turn it on, turn it on, you turn me on

Slow down my beating heart
Slowly, slowly love
Slow down my beating heart
Slowly, slowly love
Slow down my beating heart
Slowly, slowly love

U2 - Red Hill Mining Town

Porque muitas vezes regresso ao passado...

U2 - Red Hill Mining Town

From father to son

The blood runs thin

Ooh, see the faces frozen (still)

Against the wind.

The seam is split

The coal-face cracked

The lines are long

There's no going back.

Through hands of steel

And heart of stone

Our labour day

Has come and gone.

They leave me holdin' on

In Red Hill Town.

See the lights go down on ...

Hangin' on

You're all that's left to hold on to.

I'm still waiting

I'm hangin' on

You're all that's left to hold on to.

The glass is cut

The bottle run dry.

Our love runs cold

In the caverns of the night.

We're wounded by fear

Injured in doubt.

I can lose myself

You I can't live without.

Yeah, you keep me holdin' on

In Red Hill Town.

See the lights go down on…

Hangin' on

You're all that's left to hold on to.

I'm still waiting

I'm hangin' on

You're all that's left to hold on to

On to.

We scorch the earth

Set fire to the sky

And we stooped so low

To reach so high.

A link is lost

The chain undone.

We wait all day

For night to come

And it comes like a hunter (child).

I'm hangin' on

You're all that's left to hold on to.

I'm still waiting

I'm hangin' on

You're all that's left to hold on to.

We see love, slowly stripped away

Our love has seen its better day.

Hangin' on

Lights go down on Red Hill

The lights go down on Red Hill.

The lights go down on Red Hill.

The lights go down on Red Hill Town.

Alguém sabe interpretar sonhos?

Ando com uns sonhos estranhos...

A semana passada foi sobre uma mulher...
No fim de semana foi sobre ir jantar a casa de amigos e correr tudo mal...
Antes de ontem foi sobre um desejo louco de comer croissants com chocolate...
Ontem foi sobre me acontecerem 1001 situações que me estavam a impedir de ir a um concerto dos U2... (pesadelo!)

Recordo-me de poucos pormenores...

E explicações para isto?! Ainda para mais quando eu até há bem pouco tempo atrás não me recordava dos meus sonhos, nem tampouco de sonhar...

Alguém sabe interpretar sonhos?

The Passengers - Your Blue Room

The Passengers - Your Blue Room
It's time to go again
To your blue room
Got some questions to ask of you
In your blue room

The air is clean
Your skin is clear
I've had enough of
hanging round here
It's a different kind of conversation
In your blue room

Saw me coming
In and outside
Saw me coming
Somewhere to hide
And time is a string of pearls
Your blue room

Once again
See the future just hanging there
Your blue room
A new frame
A new perspective
Looking down on my objectives
Your instructions
Whatever their directions
Your blue room

Saw me coming
East by the moon
Saw me coming
Can you feel

(It's allright)

Your blue room
One day I'll be back
Your blue room

Yeah, I hope I remember where it's at
Your blue room
We see me slide down
Won't you give me a home
So much for change

Zooming in
Zooming out
Nothing I can't do without
A lense to it all up close
To Magnify what no one knows
Never in company
Never alone
No car alarm
No cellular phone

The Killers - Ultra Violet (Light My Way) - 20 anos de Achtung Baby

Lançado no dia 19 de Novembro de 1991, comprei-o na manhã em que saiu em Portugal e explorei-o até ao último recanto, música a música, letra a letra... Um dos álbuns da minha vida, "Achtung Baby" dos U2, comemorou os 20 anos de vida e a "Q Magazine" lançou um disco de tributo denominado "Ahk-Toong Bay-Bi", onde se inclui esta cover fantástica dos Killers, "Ultra Violet (Light My Way)", uma das música que em 91 me ficou logo...

U2 - Ultra Violet (Light My Way)

Ooooh....
Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checkin' out
I wanna get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love it won't be long
Oh sugar, don't you cry
Oh child, wipe the tears from your eyes
You know I need you to be strong
And the day is as dark as the night is long
Feel like trash, you make me feel clean
I'm in the black, can't see or be seen

Baby, baby, baby...light my way
Alright now...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way

You bury your treasure
Where it can't be found
But your love is like a secret
That's been passed around
There is a silence that comes to a house
Where no one can sleep
I guess it's the price of love
I know it's not cheap

Oh, come on...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way
Oh, come on!
Baby, baby, baby...light my way

Oooh...ultraviolet...
Oooh...ultraviolet...
Oooh...ultraviolet...
Oooh...ultraviolet...

Baby, baby, baby...light my way

I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed

Baby, baby, baby...light my way
Oh, come on...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way

Oooh...ultraviolet...
Oooh...ultraviolet...
Oooh...ultraviolet...
Oooh...ultraviolet...

Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way

Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way

Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way

U2 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

Há alturas na nossa vida em que estamos assim, Stucked In A Moment You (that We) Can't Get Out Of... Impõe-se que sigamos em frente e nos "soltemos", pelo que se calhar vou até ao Speakeasy daqui a pouco para ver os 2U (Que diga-se em abono da verdade, são muito bons) e rever bons momentos e sensações...

U2 - Stuck in a moment you can´t get out of
I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing

I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Oh love, look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep

I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass

U2 - 360.º Tour Live@Estádio Cidade de Coimbra 02-10-2010

A ansiedade há muito que já tinha tomado conta de mim e já não conseguia conter a euforia de assistir ao meu 4.º concerto dos U2. Em Coimbra, 2 de Outubro de 2010, a banda do October, naquele que foi um...

BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Assim que começam os primeiros acordes do Space Oddity de David Bowie, os U2 entram em palco e o Estádio fica em alvoroço, começando com Return of the Stingray Guitar o Bono a flirtar e a posar para o público, como ele tão bem sabe fazer... Cumprimenta e começa a fazer "estragos"... FABULOSA entrada e as luzes do Estádio eclipsam-se dando lugar às luzes e vídeos da "Claw"...

MAGNIFICENT!!!

E assim começou o concerto com o Bono a parar perto de nós pela primeira vez aos 4.20m... e por ali passou várias vezes, ele e os restantes 3 magníficos... a 2 metros de mim e dos meus parceiros de concerto, os que foram comigo e os que encontrei por lá...Almada, Sintra, Mem Martins, Lisboa, Cascais, Guimarães, São Miguel, Ermesinde... PORTUGAL... Naquele dia acabámos por ser...

ONE!!!

E quer se queira quer não, os U2 são "A Banda"... A MELHOR BANDA DO MUNDO!!!

UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

Soube a pouco, como sabe sempre... Ainda bem que posso escrever, pois quando terminou o concerto, nem falar conseguia... Espero que tenha sido um até breve e que o seu regresso se dê...

IN A LITTLE WHILE!!!

Um dos concertos da minha vida...

U2 360.º Tour...

Começou ontem em Turim nova digressão pela Europa da "U2 360.º Tour"... Muitas emoções, muitas novidades e muita, mas muita, boa música! A ansiedade já começa a "falar...
Em Outubro lá estarei em Coimbra...

U2... Uno, Dos, Tres.... Catorce!!!

Rock and Roll Stops the Traffic!!!

Foi há 25 anos atrás e lembro-me como se fosse hoje...

... o LIVE AID... Das muitas bandas que vi passar naquele dia, a actuação de uma marcou-me especialmente. Nunca mais vi a música da mesma forma e se já gostava dos U2, naquele dia consolidaram-se como a "minha banda" do coração. Os U2 tocavam o "Bad", com o Bono Vox e o seu "irish accent" a darem espectáculo para o Estádio de Wembley, e para o mundo que assistia em "directo" à maior iniciativa de solidariedade para com África através da música, quando o Bono se atirou literalmente do palco para ir buscar uma fã, dando origem a uma versão "prolongada" do "Bad" com 12 minutos. Li mais tarde que a banda na altura ficou "lixada" com a atitude irreverente e irreflectida(ou não...) de Bono, porém o mundo que assistia em directo, "aplaudiu" e "vibrou com a actuação dos U2 e dessa atitude em particular... E é assim se ganha o estatuto da melhor banda de rock do mundo. Nessa tarde tocaram também o "Sunday Bloody Sunday" e nada mais há a dizer que "Rock n´Roll stops traffic"!!! Em Outubro lá estarei para os ver pela 4.ª vez ao vivo...

U2 - Bad
If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you break, break away
Into the night
Through the rain
Into the half-light
Through the flame

If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day

Oooh oooh, oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh...

To let it go! And so fade away
To let it go!
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping, oh no, no, no

If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes

Oooh oooh, oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh...

If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go

This desparation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Isolation

Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go, oh yeah
And so fade away
To let it go, oh No
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping oh no no

Apesar de haver a distância, a Amizade está sempre presente...

Para uma Amiga muito especial, que apesar de distante está presente todos os dias...

PS: Adoro esta música... 

Um grande beijinho...

Novamente Avatar...

Pois é, parece que agora tudo quanto é celebridade quer o seu Avatar. Madonna, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, entre outros...
Deixo-vos aqui o Bono para que possam ter uma ideia...

 

PS: Como celebridade que sou, vou já encomendar o meu eheheheh :-)

U2 - Winter

Aí está a nova música dos U2! Fantástica!!! O Bono parece que recuperou o irish accent...
Mais um DVD para apreciar "Linear"... O vídeo deste "Winter" é do holandês Anton Corbijn que há muito colabora com os U2, e na minha opinião pessoal, tão bem!
Espero que apreciem tanto quanto eu... E Outubro de 2010 aproxima-se...

U2_-_Winter

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.

Looking at the bruised,
The young and the used,
The sure and confused all here

Words will 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 25,
I'm 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.

Looking at the bruised,
The young and the used,
The sure and confused all here

Words would land on me,
Then abandon me,
Leave me stranded,
Knocking on the door.

Rhymes began in me,
Summer sang in me,
But summer sings in me no more.

Ooooo-oooo-ooooooo--oooooooooOOOOOOOooooooooo

(ALL INCOMPLETE)
the silence in the foreground
the sky stretched
the stench over everyone
listen to the tanks
the shots

At 21,
I was born a son,
And on that day I knew,
I could kill.

To protect the ones,
Who put bullets in guns,
Or anything it takes,
To take a life.

U2 - Nou Camp - Barcelona 30-06-2009 - The Unforgettable Fire

A melhor banda do mundo está de volta aos "palcos"... A 360º Degrees Tour iniciou-se no estádio do Barcelona, o "Nou Camp". Tudo indica que os U2 estão melhores do que nunca e o seu regresso "arrepia-me". Dos vários vídeos que já vi, o Bono (em grande forma...) e os U2 recomendam-se. Agora é esperar que a tour passe por Portugal e lá terei que ir mais uma noite para o "relento" para arranjar bilhetes. Valeu a pena e acho que continua a valer :-) Era tão bom vê-los uma quarta vez...
Bendita a internet que nos traz as imagens e o som poucas horas depois, deixando-nos com água na boca, pedindo mais e mais...