U2: So Cruel
(Achtung Baby, 1991)
Lyrics
We crossed the line
Who pushed who over?
It doesn't matter to you
It matters to me
Were 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 right 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 Gods 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 seethrough 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
Youre so cruel
Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by U2, released in 1991. Stung by criticism of their previous album, Rattle and Hum, the album was a calculated change in musical and thematic direction with the incorporation of alternative rock, electronic dance music, and industrial influences. It was the bands most dramatic change since The Unforgettable Fire album (1984).
Sonically, the band referred to the album as the sound of four men chopping down the Joshua Tree. Thematically, it was a more inwardlooking and personal record; it was darker, yet more playful than the bands previous work.
Commercially and critically, Achtung Baby has been one of the bands most successful albums. It produced several hit singles in One, Mysterious Ways, The Fly, and my favourite So Cruel, has sold 18 million copies worldwide, and won a Grammy Award. The album and the subsequent multimediaintensive Zoo TV Tour were a crucial part of the bands 1990s reinvention.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 62 on Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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