LE CANZONI CHE ASCOLTAVO

Per la rubrica delle canzoni della mia adolescenza, oggi posto questo video. Penso di aver consumato l'album all'epoca, anche se ormai stavo entrando quasi nell'età adulta, ma ero ancora abbastanza teen. Se ritrovo la cassetta (perchè allora di cassette campavo) me lo riascolto anche volentieri...era uno dei miei preferiti...e questa, bè, una delle loro canzoni più belle. E visto che ci sono, ho anche voglia di postare il testo.

So cruel - U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)

 

 

We crossed the line

Who pushed who over?

It doesn't matter to you

It matters to me



We're cut adrift

We're still floating

I'm only hanging on

To watch you go down

My love



I disappeared in you

You disappeared from me

I gave you everything you ever wanted

It wasn't what you wanted



The men who love you, you hate the most

They pass through you like a ghost

They look for you, but your spirit is in the air

Baby, you're nowhere



Oh...love...

You say in love there are no rules

Oh...love...

Sweetheart,

You're so cruel



Desparation is a tender trap

It gets you every time

You put your lips to her lips

To stop the lie



Her skin is pale like God's only dove

Screams like an angel for your love

Then she makes you watch her from above

And you need her like a drug



Oh...love...

You say in love there are no rules

Oh...love...

Sweetheart,

You're so cruel



She wears my love like a see-through dress

Her lips say one thing

Her movements something else

Oh love, like a screaming flower

Love...dying every hour...love



You don't know if it's fear or desire

Danger the drug that takes you higher

Head in heaven, fingers in the mire



Her heart is racing, you can't keep up

The night is bleeding like a cut

Between the horses of love and lust

We are trampled underfoot



Oh...love... You say in love there are no rules

Oh...love...

Sweetheart,

You're so cruel



Oh...love...

To stay with you I'd be a fool

Sweetheart

You're so cruel