Is It Any Wonder?

Album: Under The Iron Sea (2006)
Charted: 3 78
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  • I, I always thought that I knew
    I'd always have the right to
    Be living in the kingdom of the good and true

    And so on
    But now I think I was wrong
    And you were laughing along
    And now I look a fool for thinking you were on my side

    Is it any wonder that I'm tired?
    Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
    Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?

    Sometimes
    It's hard to know where I stand
    It's hard to know where I am
    Well, maybe it's a puzzle I don't understand

    Sometimes
    I get the feeling that I'm
    Stranded in the wrong time
    Where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme, sometimes

    Is it any wonder that I'm tired?
    Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
    Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?

    Oh, these days
    After all the misery you made
    Is it any wonder that I feel afraid?
    Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed?

    Nothing left inside this old cathedral
    Just the sad lonely spires
    How do you make it right?

    Oh, but you try
    Is it any wonder that I'm tired?
    Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
    Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?

    Oh these days
    After all the misery you made
    Is it any wonder that I feel afraid?
    Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed? Writer/s: RICHARD DAVID HUGHES, TIMOTHY JAMES RICE-OXLEY, TOM CHAPLIN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Scott from West Palm Beach, FlI really like this song based on the pure fact that I'm a die hard U2 fan and this song sounds eerily similar in nature. In fact, it could have been included on U2's Achtung Baby LP and I'd bet no one would have been the wiser! :)
  • Dora from Doha, QatarThis song could also be about a troubled relationship between 2 people.
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