Album: Zooropa (1993)

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• (What do you want?)
  (What do you want?)
  
  Zooropa vorsprung durch technik
  Zooropa be all that you can be
  Be a winner
  Eat to get slimmer
  
  Zooropa bluer kind of white
  Zooropa it could be yours tonight
  We're mild and green
  And squeaky clean
  
  (What do you want?)
  (What do you want?)
  (What do you want?)
  (What do you want?)
  
  Zooropa better by design
  Zooropa fly the friendly skies
  Through appliance of science
  We've got that ring of confidence
  
  And I have no compass
  And I have no map
  And I have no reasons
  No reasons to get back
  
  And I have no religion
  And I don't know what's what
  And I don't know the limit
  The limit of what we've got
  
  Don't worry baby, it'll be alright
  You got the right shoes
  To get you through the night
  It's cold outside, but brightly lit
  Skip the subway
  Let's go to the overground
  Get your head out of the mud baby
  Put flowers in the mud baby
  Overground
  
  No particular place names
  No particular song
  I've been hiding
  What am I hiding from
  
  Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright
  Uncertainty can be a guiding light
  I hear voices, ridiculous voices
  Out in the slipstream
  Let's go, let's go overground
  Take your head out of the mud baby
  
  She's gonna dream up
  The world she wants to live in
  She's gonna dream out loud
  She's gonna dream out loud
  Dream out loud Writer/s: Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Larry Mullen, Paul Hewson
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Mike from Buffalo, NdThe song "Somedays are Better Than Others" from this cd sadly isn't on SF. I have always enjoyed the wonderfully bizarre distorted guitar solo on that song. Was it really the Edge playing? So unlike his usual style, though even by then, he had begun using other tricks than the echo/delay signature sound that served the band well on it's first few albums. Anyway, "Zooropa" is a close second for me on this album.
• Rick from Columbus, GaThis is the best rock song about outer space zoos ever! It totally rolls.
• Lily from Godrics Hallow, Englandi love this song Vorsprung durch technik, ny new favorite phrase! LOL
• Chadd Bryant from Prague, Ok"Let's skip the subway.. let's go to the overground... Get your head out of the mud baby!!"
  U2 rocks, no matter what genre music they play...
• Grayson from Cleveland, OhLemon is probably the worst song on Zooropa
• Cody from New York, Nyyou people are insane... this song is so much better than Lemon
• Jeremy from Hopedale, MaZooropa is an ok song but Lemon is much better
• Brian from Meriden, CtI thought, like Rich, that Lemon was a great song. But it took me a while to decide if I even liked the album at all and I have always been a huge U2 fan. I have never been into the Euro/techno thing and was in love with earlier albums so different from this period. But like the elite bands such as the Beatles U2 is not going to do the same thing for long. A continual evolution. Like our own. I came to like Zooropa but it's at the bottom of my U2 list. But that's relative. A great band is a great band. And it showed here. But that Audi phrase and the whole title-track...how about Trip Through Your Wires instead?
• Rich from Commack, NyVorsprung Durch Technik! I love this song- #1 (Tied with Lemon) on my favorites list! I'd have to give this song a 9.9 out of 10. Why not 10? It should have been a tad bit faster.

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