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
WiIl you be there

In a little while
I won't (be) blow by every breeze
Friday night running
To Sunday on my knees

That girl, that girl
She's mine
And I've know her since

Since you were a little girl
With Spanish eyes
Oh, when I saw her
In a pram they pushed her by

My, how you've grown
Well it's been
It's been a little while

Slow down my beating heart
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

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Promenade
 

Earth sky sea rain
  Is she coming back again
  Men of straw, snooker hall
  Words that build or destroy
  Dirt dry bone sand and stone
  Barbed-wire fence cut me down
  I'd like to be around
  In a spiral staircase
  To the higher ground

  And I, like a firework, explode
  Roman candle lightning lights up the sky

  In the cracked streets trampled under foot
  Sidestep, sidewalk
  I see you stare into space
  Have I got closer now
  Behind the face

  Oh...tell me...
  Charity dance with me
  Turn me around tonight
  Up through spiral staircase
  To the higher ground

  Slide show sea side town
  Coca-Cola, football radio radio radio
  Radio radio radio...
 

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The Sweetest Thing

[Bono wrote this song for Ali during the Joshua Tree recording sessions because
he was so busy in the studio that he missed Ali's birthday.]

My love she throws me like a rubber ball
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
She won't catch me or break my fall
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Baby's got blue skies up ahead
But in this I'm a rain cloud
You know she likes a dry kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing

I'm losing you
Hey hey hey, I'm losing you yeah
Ain't love the sweetest thing

I wanted to run but she made me crawl
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw
Oh oh, the sweetest thing
You know I got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her
Mine is a blind kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing

I'm losing you
Oh oh oh, I'm losing you yeah
Ain't love the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh, yeah

Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
You can sew it up but you still see the tear
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Baby's got blue skies up ahead
And in this I'm a rain cloud
You know we got a stormy kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
 

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Spanish Eyes
 

Wey hey hey, baby hang on
Wey hey hey, baby hang on
Empty heart, beat tight as a drum set
Empty love, she'd shine like a song
Wey hey hey, baby hang on (to anything)

Our love shines like rain
In those spanish eyes
Spanish eyes

Wey hey hey, here she comes
She comes in colors
You know she gonna turn the daylight on
'cause I love the way you talk to me
And I love the way you walk on me
And I need you more
Oh, than you need me

Our love shines like rain
In those spanish eyes
Spanish eyes

I'll cross the world for green and gold
But it's those Spanish eyes
That get me home...home again

Wey hey hey, baby hang on
Wey hey hey, you know that
The night is young
Dazzled by lights that shine in your eyes
I'm standing in the shadows
And wait for the night
Forever in fever, forever in heat
You pick me up to put me out on the street

Wey hey hey, baby hang on, hang on
Wey hey hey, baby hang on, hang on
'cause I love the way you talk to me
And I love the way you're mean to me
And I need you
 

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The First Time
 

I have a lover
A lover like no other
She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul
And she teach me how to sing

Shows me colours when there's none to see
Gives me hope when I can't believe
That for the first time
I feel love

I have a brother
When I'm a brother in need
I spend my whole time running
He spends his running after me

When I feel myself going down
I just call and he comes around
But for the first time
I feel love

My father is a rich man
He wears a rich man's cloak
Gave me the keys to his kingdom coming
Gave me a cup of gold

He said I have many mansions
And there are many rooms to see
But I left by the back door
And I threw away the key
And I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key

For the first time
For the first time
For the first time

I feel love
 

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Two Hearts Beat as One

[Bono wrote this song on he and Ali's honeymoon.]

I don't know
I don't know which side I'm on
I don't know my right from left
Or my right from wrong
Say I'm a fool
You say I'm nothing
But if I'm a fool for you
Oh, that's something

Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts...

I can't stop the dance
Honey, this is my last chance
I said, can't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance

Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts...

They beat on black, beat on white
Beat on everything don't get it right
Beat on you, beat on me, beat on love

I don't know
How to say what's got to be said
I don't know if it's black or white
There's others see it red
I don't get the answers right
I leave that to you
Is this love out of fashion
Or is it the time of year
Are these words distraction
To the words you want to hear

Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts beat as one

I try to spit it out
I try to explain
The way I feel
Oh, yeah
Two hearts

I can't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance
I said I can't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance
I said don't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance
I said I can't stop the dance
Maybe this is our last chance
I said don't stop the dance
Maybe this is our last chance
 

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Where the Streets Have No Name

[OK, so this song isn't exactly about Ali, but it is about when Bono
and Ali went to Ethiopia. It was Ali's idea to go there.]

I want to run
  I want to hide
  I want to tear down the walls
  That hold me inside
  I want to reach out
  And touch the flame
  Where the streets have no name

  I want to feel sunlight on my face
  I see the dust cloud disappear
  Without a trace
  I want to take shelter from the poison rain
  Where the streets have no name

  Where the streets have no name
  Where the streets have no name
  We're still building
  Then burning down love
  Burning down love
  And when I go there
  I go there with you
  It's all I can do

  The city's aflood
  And our love turns to rust
  We're beaten and blown by the wind
  Trampled in dust
  I'll show you a place
  High on a desert plain
  Where the streets have no name

  Where the streets have no name
  Where the streets have no name
  We're still building
  Then burning down love
  Burning down love
  And when I go there
  I go there with you
  It's all I can do
  Our love turns to rust
  We're beaten and blown by the wind
  Blown by the wind
  Oh, and I see love
  See our love turn to rust
  We're beaten and blown by the wind
  Blown by the wind
  Oh, when I go there
  I go there with you
  It's all I can do
 

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