Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
by U2

Album: Achtung Baby (1991)
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  • Six o'clock in the morning,
    You're the last to hear the warning
    You've been tryin? to throw your arms around the world
    You've been fallin? off the sidewalk
    Your lips move but you can't talk
    Tryin' to throw your arms around the world

    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    Be still
    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    Woman I will

    Sunrise like a nosebleed
    Your head hurts and you can't breathe
    You been tryin' to throw you arms around the world
    How far you gonna go
    Before you lose your way back home
    You've been tryin? to throw your arms around the world

    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    Woman be still
    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    Woman I will

    Yeah, I dreamed that I saw Dali
    With a supermarket trolley
    He was tryin? to throw his arms around a girl
    He took an open top beetle
    Through the eye of a needle
    He was tryin' to throw his arms around the world

    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    Woman be still
    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    Oh, woman I will

    (And you just gotta, you just gotta make your faith...see...)

    Nothin' much to say I guess, just the same as all the rest
    Been trying to throw your arms around the world
    And a woman needs a man
    Like a fish needs a bicycle
    When you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world

    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you
    Woman be still, woman be still, be still
    Woman be still, woman I will
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Acrobat from Adelaide, AustraliaThis song IS about a hangover.
  • Marius from LüneburgI always relate this to a hangover ;)
  • Dawson from Draper, UtThis song is awesome. I love the line 'A women needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle'.
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