When this album came out I listened to it over and over for at least a year straight. It was and still is (in my opinion) U2’s magnum opus. One of those albums that you know every sound of, every word, the singer’s every breath in and every breath out of, every beat, every count. This song in particular is beautiful!
I used to listen to it on a loop on my Walkman doing my paper round. This and the cult lol. Found the CD in a charity shop, put it in the car and it's still a cracker!!!
I would play it on loop until I fell asleep. It is 2023. I am still listening. It puts me in a soft warm place in my life. This album meant so much to so many. Enjoy and sweet dreams
This song touches my soul. I have been sober off opioid for only a short time. I sang it in my head while in rehab. It is haunting and beautiful. The Joshua Tree is a gift to all humanity.
So proud of you!! Give that love too others who struggle, we all do!! Some fake, some snakes... When my eyes' close Jesus knows!!!!!! each one teach one.Shalom
On January 23, 2019 I listened to this song and "Bad" from the Unforgettable Fire CD at work. The tears flowed freely and I wondered why I had such a reaction of all days. My beautiful daughter struggled with heroin addiction for almost 10 years and perished from that addiction sometime in the evening of the 22nd or early on the 23rd. My wife told me when I got home from work. I felt my daughter was speaking to me through this. I miss you so much Bryna Leigh. I am raising her 2 year old son now. Grampy's favorite band. Ayden will know them too....
My mother is in I.C.U and I am listening to this song and crying my eyes out because I know she’s fading away from us and there is nothing we can do about it but this song and it’s melody make me feel her ever so near 🌹❤️🙏😓...
U2 can build you up, break you down, make you fall in love and make you want to phone your mother. Without a doubt one of the top songwriters of our time if not all time
Strangely, I think most of us (Irish people) would say we're not really U2 fans, but we still pack wherever they play to the rafters! It could be the RDS, Slane, or Croker; I've seen then at each. Never paid for a ticket, but they've been some of the best gigs I've ever been to. I too think this is their greatest song by a very long way. Something magic and spiritual happens in this song. Something I cannot explain. I'd love to know what was happening in Bono’s life when he wrote this.
Tuco The rat You cannot be serious about BTBS being the best track on The Joshua Tree. Are you honestly saying you prefer it to With Or Without You, Where The Streets Have No Name, or I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Either you are in a very exclusive club of one, or you're a spammer.
I am 53 now...the first time I heard a song from U2 ,I was 17 ( " Sunday, bloody Sunday).Saw U2 two times in Vienna.Couldnt live without their music❤️❤️
Being a former addict, this song kills me~I find it amazing this written by someone who didn’t abuse H, how accurate the words & feelings are to those who have been through that Hell on Earth. Bono is an amazing song writer, U2 has a plethora of songs that break my heart every time, no matter how many times I’ve heard them~
@Dominic 5 straight years of street shit. It WAS hell!! And DAMN happy to be out. No more chasing the Dragon. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SOBER NOW....and loving it.
“I see 7 towers but I only see 1 way out…you got to talk without speaking, cry without weeping, scream without raising your voice..” this song is a masterpiece…
And so she woke up Woke up from where she was lyin' still Said I gotta do something About where we're going Step on a steam train Step out of the driving rain, maybe Run from the darkness in the night Singing ah, ah la la la de day Ah la la la de day Ah la la la de day Sweet the sin Bitter the taste in my mouth I see seven towers But I only see one way out You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking Scream without raising your voice You know I took the poison from the poison stream Then I floated out of here, singing Ah la la la de day Ah la la la de day Ah la la la de day She runs through the streets With her eyes painted red Under a black belly of cloud in the rain In through a doorway She brings me white golden pearls Stolen from the sea She is ragin', she is raging And the storm blows up in her eyes She will suffer the needle chill She's running to stand still
Bono's voice reaches into the soul and tells it things words cannot. His "oooo"-ing midway through the song brings me to my knees with tears running down my face every time. It gets me. Completely.
I saw U2’s 1989 Rattle and Hum concert in Tempe Az Hands down one of the best I’ve ever been to it was so moving and spiritual I’ll never forget it and of course this one was played , what a beautiful and haunting song my wife and I can totally relate
My dad died when I was 7 from liver and kidney failure and he used to sing this to me every night. I miss him so much. And this song hits hard every time I hear it.
Matty, read your post while listening to U2"s Running to Stand Still and saw your post about your Dad. I lost my Dad in 2008 and my mom in 2013. I wanted you to know that things do get better, you just have to give it time. Losing someone isn't something you get over, you get through it as best you can. You're going to be ok
There's pop, heavy, metal, dance, hip -hop, jazz, etc........and then there's U2. A music in a class of its own - undefinable, a mystery, from another dimension, celestial, spiritual, absolutely beautiful......I've always thought this about U2 and always struggled to define what type of music I like. I like U2. I LOVE U2. The stuff these guys have produced goes hits me somewhere that no other type of music can. Spine tingling
My girlfriend in college was not a giant U2 fan but she loved this song. Especially those lyrics. There's a haunting ironic beautiful absurdity to those lines.
My only sister transitioned this past January and when I think of her this jam comes to mind. I miss her but I know she is no longer in pain, life slows down and I smile playing this and thinking of my sister. Peace
I've been a fan of U2 since I was 8 years old. They work perfectly together. Wouldn't be the same if one of them left. Bono and Edge get all the cred, but I love Larry and Adam. Wouldn't want it any other way
My mom dated a guy for four years that really became a father figure to me but he became addicted to heroin and they split up. He was a big influence on me and since he was in the Navy I grew up and decided to join the Marines. When I graduated from basic training I learned that he overdosed when I was in training. It broke my heart that I couldn’t see him as a Marine. I miss you man. To everyone struggling with addiction, I pray for you. I hope you have the strength to overcome it
This is the last song on Joshua Tree. I could listen to this every day for the rest of my short life. Hardly ever hear this on the radio but when I do, I close my eyes and remember the young Swiss man I feel in love with at that time. He became my addiction. I felt high. I moved away from my husband. Got a divorce. Then my Swiss man left to follow his dreams. What an amazing low for me. I was never the same! But this song with it's chords and melody and simplicity worked their way into my fingers on a piano and voice to sing the hurt away. Thank you U2!
I was born I stl. We never stayed in one address for very long. My mother's husband at the time was abusive. South stl in the eighties on the streets were different. She got us out of there. She died in 2007. This song is completely nostalgic in every way. When I hear this I think of her. My mother.
Frank Taylor Bad z class i love that song there is so many U2 songs that are fantastic a dont know why they get so much hate? i can understand bono acting like a knob most times the things he says but the rest of the band are fine. My favourite U2 song would have 2 b 1 tree hill.
Al Pacino Al, yeah, they get a lot of negativity, for no discernible reason, but in the immortal words of Paul Hewson, "....it's hard carrying the weight of the world...."
Richard Marshall Bowman'' not everyone can carry the weight of the world.......'' Talk about the passion, R.E.M., also a great ethereal and magical song....it's hard to beat the first few lp's from u2 and rem back in the day......
I forgot to mention U2 has and always will be my absolute favorite band of all time. Poetry and real life realized in A song or songs. Could not get any better
+chinafakeeggs I know, I could spend an eternity talking about each song. All of the songs are powerful in their own right and just mesh together so well it never comes off as pretentious or overzealous. It's just perfect.
+chinafakeeggs I love "All That You Can't Leave Behind", and "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb", "No Line in the Horizon" was ok, but Songs of Innocence is really good. I also really liked the single "Invisible". But it's true, their material is miles above anything put out by lousy artists.
+chinafakeeggs I listen to music like Mindy Smith, Ingrid Michelson, Kathleen Edwards, Mat Kearney, Ana Ternheim, Brandi Carlile, Courtyard Hounds, Courtney Jaye, give any of these artists a listen, they have amazing music. Plus I listen to a plethora of 80's and 90's music, and a little 70's every now and then.
+chinafakeeggs There is "some" good music out there, just that what's put on the radio is absolute garbage, your Katy Perry and what not are the life suckers of music. But try giving one of the artists I mentioned a listen, I suggest Mindy Smith, the albums "One Moment More" , "Long Island Shores" are really nice albums. She's sort of country/singer/song writer/contemporary adult pop, but very stripped down and down to earth.
1 of the greatest songs of all time and also 1 of thee greatest bands of all time, Thank you u2 for helping me thru some of the toughest times of my life...
Seven towers Ballymun, Named after the Seven Easter Rising Leaders of 1916..All executed by the british in Kilmainham jail..Rest in Peace brave soldiers..... Thomas Clarke, Sean mc Dermott, Thomas mc Donagh, Patrick Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett... The dreams and fight lives on.....
This song of my tweens, while reading my Stephen Kings book The Talisman, I have a whole soundtrack to this book. Ahhhh Youth to be young. And to Grow!
U2 is not just a band...they're a mindset that that truly helps bring a person harmony! Whenever I am feeling troubled, I listen and wait for that special something that words alone just can't describe. I don't have enough space to say all the things U2 mean to me but if I were stuck on a desert island, I'd want to have there music!
Every time the song reaches "scream without raising your voice", I feel like I'm going to cry, then when it reaches "she is raging, she is raging, and the storm blows up in her eyes", I feel uplifted, no other song currently moves me as much.
From u2’s best album and still their best song it is pure poetry.I have never experienced or dabbled in drugs and yet Bono’s voice and the lyrics convey what it’s like to be an addict.This is music.This is art.This is not Nicki Minaj.This is not One Direction.THIS MATTERS.And therefore will affect people and be remembered by all
This is a great song. While the big sound openers on Joshua Tree got all the air play, I think some of the quieter songs later on are the best part of the album.
Lyrically, this is probably the most beautiful song I know of. This and Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World. I'm not usually a poetic minded person, but I am an addict. Perhaps that is why this song gets to me like it does...
I used to work as a volunteer with homeless people and a lot of them were heroin addicted. I knew this guy who I definetely knew was addicted and I was really frustrated because I knew his potential and I knew how damn hard he was wasting his life. One day we were talking about something and he was giving me bullshit and I said "Just stop, you remind me of a song (the guy used to play the guitar, as a matter of fact he carried his guitar everywhere; probably one of the few things he possessed)". And I told him about this song. He tried to know what was this song about and I just told him to just find the song and listen to it. The next day I didn't find him on the streets, neither on the next day. I didn't see him for like 9 months, I thought that he died from an overdose or something. And then he calls me (he didn't have a cellphone before, although sometimes he called me from payphones). He listened to the song and got really moved by it and I guess it was like a click he made back then. He decided to move from Lisbon to the south of Portugal so he wouldn't be around the same people as he was used to. He played the guitar for the tourists in Algarve (Portugal) and one day he was hired to play in a bar. And after that he returned to Lisbon where he managed to get a job also in a bar, playing for the customers. And as I know he is clean now, has a girlfriend he is going to marry and I just hope that the addiction is history. So, this song just reminds me how sometimes we have these moments when magic can really happen. This song for me is magical.
This song can enlighten you to think of it in many ways. It has helped me get through rough times ,and it says alot running to stand still means your running to find a peace of harmony from your past bad experiences. Its a deep and thoughtful song. One of there best, ever recorded. Thank you bono.
This song is about Heroin addiction. Always chasing the next hit "Running". Ultimately, never getting anywhere "standing still" Drugs will make you chase them non-stop, but you'll never anywhere, meanwhile everyone else moves on in life.
I played this when it was a best friend's 40th birthday! It was about 9-30 in the evening! We'd had a few bevies 😜 Our children couldn't get over how we both knew every word! Thanks U2 for all your brilliant music especially this track! 🤗💕
Being a recovering person and being facilitated with this song before the addiction kicked off brings in such a rush of nostalgic coincidence…… I think it was this song that helped me get to the depths of U2 and being clean now all these years later it helps me appreciate what a fortunate soul I am.
I play guitar and sing Learned this song 25 years ago and it’s still my favorite to play and sing. So gorgeous. Lyrics are amazing. It’s just a simple but absolutely perfect song
I’ve been dreading this moment but knew it was inevitable. I’m here because my younger brother just succumbed to an overdose and I can’t get this hauntingly beautiful song out of my head. Despite your struggles as an adult, I’ll always remember you Mike as my kid brother full of life and happiness…the good times. I will miss you forever but find solace knowing that you are no longer running to stand still.
still gives me thrills all over my body....best band ever for me and due to nostalgia and youth memories, there will never ever be a better band for me. tanx for everything U2 !
The first U2's songs, so deeply impressive, this one sounds like a sweet ballad. There's common people's life, such a variety of feelings. Bono's voice is really superb (but don't forget Morten Harket, the A-ha singer, another style, of course, my best two singers). True music and true singers.
What a beautiful song, i have loved U2 since i was a kid & the joshua tree is up there in mu all time fave albums ever, got into metal, rave, country classical, but U2 have always been a favourite
I loved a boy. He didn't love me the same. I still had hope. My life was terrible but I still had my sister,she was my life and my breath. This album was with me,always. And now...
This song is about addiction....but its not always drugs that kills your soul and takes over your life. This song hits hard for me, for all the inadequacy...the loss...lack of love...abandonment...being alone...and mental/emotional abuse the biggest loves of my life have given me. If being defeated paid, I'd be the wealthiest woman in the world...
+Casey Compton I'm sorry for your loss Casey, this' you tube' reaches millions of people, if just one lady or guy turns their life around after reading your comments, then your words are worth millions....
Lord let me stop drinking, let me see my worth , Free me from this pain that I can't change amen
Sei frei ❤
3 months zero alcohol
@@thetruth1862 du stehst im Leben. Geh ins Licht. Jeder Schritt sei ein ja zum Leben und der Liebe. 👋🌸🍀
you both have touched me.
@@thetruth1862that's awesome! Well done! Youre worth the effort!
After 33 years, I still get chills from this song.
Yeah..
Love it!
Me too❤
I do too. Whenever I hear I am back in Montevideo in the Ramblas, walking in a light rain....
Ditto!
When this album came out I listened to it over and over for at least a year straight. It was and still is (in my opinion) U2’s magnum opus. One of those albums that you know every sound of, every word, the singer’s every breath in and every breath out of, every beat, every count. This song in particular is beautiful!
fantastic song ,isnt it??
I used to listen to it on a loop on my Walkman doing my paper round. This and the cult lol. Found the CD in a charity shop, put it in the car and it's still a cracker!!!
I would play it on loop until I fell asleep. It is 2023. I am still listening. It puts me in a soft warm place in my life. This album meant so much to so many. Enjoy and sweet dreams
Best "The Cult" song..??
Great words
This song touches my soul. I have been sober off opioid for only a short time. I sang it in my head while in rehab. It is haunting and beautiful. The Joshua Tree is a gift to all humanity.
Peace to you fellow music lover
God bless you...be strong! Rest and know our Father loves us beyond our understanding ❤️❤️❤️
Wow, I thought it was just me singing this in my head in treatment for the same. Every day is a struggle. I hope your doing well. Stay strong!
God love you. Hang in there brother. I'll say a prayer for you.
So proud of you!! Give that love too others who struggle, we all do!! Some fake, some snakes... When my eyes' close Jesus knows!!!!!! each one teach one.Shalom
I got sober in 1986 this song is etched in my memory.
God bless you.
This is not just a musical masterpiece, it's a gift to human being.
Nicely put; it always stirs my emotions. I love it so much and it pleases me to know there are others out there that feel the same.
....STILL one of the all time greatest albums ever recorded.... EVER.
the best ever to this day i could listen to this album 24/7 NO PROBLEM
tops my list
Definitely I´ve always loved U2 and this Legendary album tops it all ...
I saw them in 2018 in Tampa Florida on the Joshua tree tour. Was an awesome experience hearing this song played live
....STiLL !
My favorite U2 song. Got me through a bad addiction
Me too🎉
Glad to hear that. Keep going 😂👍💪🙏🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪
On January 23, 2019 I listened to this song and "Bad" from the Unforgettable Fire CD at work. The tears flowed freely and I wondered why I had such a reaction of all days. My beautiful daughter struggled with heroin addiction for almost 10 years and perished from that addiction sometime in the evening of the 22nd or early on the 23rd. My wife told me when I got home from work. I felt my daughter was speaking to me through this. I miss you so much Bryna Leigh. I am raising her 2 year old son now. Grampy's favorite band. Ayden will know them too....
Jon Emery so sorry for your loss. 😢 thank you for sharing your story and many blessings to you, your wife and baby Ayden ♥️
Peace be with you.
This is my fav song on Joshua Tree
My daughter died too
Jon Emery my peace be upon you ... sending good wishes to you 🙏🏻
Oh man. Sorry to hear. My condolences.
My mother is in I.C.U and I am listening to this song and crying my eyes out because I know she’s fading away from us and there is nothing we can do about it but this song and it’s melody make me feel her ever so near 🌹❤️🙏😓...
God look after u x
I'm sure your ma can hear you huni you stay strong thinking of you x
Hope you're OK now. Bless her.
Lord have mercy I can understand how hard it is for you and your family god bless
😢😢
U2 can build you up, break you down, make you fall in love and make you want to phone your mother. Without a doubt one of the top songwriters of our time if not all time
I'm Irish and not really a U2 fan, but this is their greatest song. It hits the soul and lives with you.
I think it's an amazing beautiful song, heard it a couple of weeks ago again after many yrs
Strangely, I think most of us (Irish people) would say we're not really U2 fans, but we still pack wherever they play to the rafters! It could be the RDS, Slane, or Croker; I've seen then at each. Never paid for a ticket, but they've been some of the best gigs I've ever been to. I too think this is their greatest song by a very long way. Something magic and spiritual happens in this song. Something I cannot explain. I'd love to know what was happening in Bono’s life when he wrote this.
. Michael Morris I'm Mexican i'm U2 fan since I was 16 and this is one of the Greatest band ever
Argue that point with the song drowning man from the war album 1983, in credible emotion
The best drug-related song ever.
U2 literally has countless songs that would be other bands' masterpieces.
Yea like 7 of them on each album lol
Well said....so true.
So true.
They’re great songwriters.
Yes
Every track on The Joshua Tree is brilliant.....
Still can never get past this one has the best of the best!!
Except Bullet The Blue Sky, never been a fan of that song.
Yes! Hooked on it since 1987 aged 14
Tuco The rat You cannot be serious about BTBS being the best track on The Joshua Tree. Are you honestly saying you prefer it to With Or Without You, Where The Streets Have No Name, or I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Either you are in a very exclusive club of one, or you're a spammer.
Absolute 1 of U2’s best albums
I’ve heard this a thousand times and I still sob every time he starts that “whooooohoo” I don’t know why but it gets into the depths of my soul.
Your not alone Tanya....it buckles me over so often.
so true
Definitely not alone...
That's the point...he's trying to reach into you.
Takes me back to the late 80s, early 90s, when life was prefect.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Ingrid Henriquez he said that? Wow
that sure sounds like the one & only U;Bob Marley!Rip cancer caused him severe agonizing pain and at the very end he played and sang thru pain
or you do at the exact appropriate moment
Not true, some music bring back bad memories.
Wow I've never heard that. Amazing, from an amazing man.
I am 53 now...the first time I heard a song from U2 ,I was 17 ( " Sunday, bloody Sunday).Saw U2 two times in Vienna.Couldnt live without their music❤️❤️
"You got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice..."
Great lyrics from this amazing Irish band
So beautiful. So moving. And so hopeless. But it tells the real story. I'm writing this through tears.
🥺❤🙌
I get goosebumps from this song.
Bono’s voice is so soft and sweet!
One of the most perfectly crafted pieces of music of the past 40 years.
Absolutely brother
Being a former addict, this song kills me~I find it amazing this written by someone who didn’t abuse H, how accurate the words & feelings are to those who have been through that Hell on Earth. Bono is an amazing song writer, U2 has a plethora of songs that break my heart every time, no matter how many times I’ve heard them~
You have all reason....I m agree...all its trueemotional song for our life
121 days sober today brother. I'm hip.
@Dominic 5 straight years of street shit. It WAS hell!! And DAMN happy to be out. No more chasing the Dragon. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SOBER NOW....and loving it.
Bad is also about this. Forever grateful for music
“I see 7 towers but I only see 1 way out…you got to talk without speaking, cry without weeping, scream without raising your voice..” this song is a masterpiece…
And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lyin' still
Said I gotta do something
About where we're going
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night
Singing ah, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day
Sweet the sin
Bitter the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
You know I took the poison from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here, singing
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day
She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under a black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway
She brings me white golden pearls
Stolen from the sea
She is ragin', she is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes
She will suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand still
Thanks, being hearing impaired, I missed heard some words. I can hear my mistakes. Except I still hear steel train instead of steam train.
Strong work Tiffany. One change: It's "Under a black velvet cloud in the rain."
That sweet harmonica outro still sends shivers up my spine after all these years
I have fallen asleep to that harmonica countless times
i think Edge said in an interview this is his fav u2 song.
Bono's voice reaches into the soul and tells it things words cannot. His "oooo"-ing midway through the song brings me to my knees with tears running down my face every time. It gets me. Completely.
Me too, M Chapman! xx
This song means so much to me. I was there and I got better. ❤❤❤
I saw U2’s 1989 Rattle and Hum concert in Tempe Az Hands down one of the best I’ve ever been to it was so moving and spiritual I’ll never forget it and of course this one was played , what a beautiful and haunting song my wife and I can totally relate
One of the most powerful songs I’ve heard in my life
The creator of the universe says love each other, so I think we should! Peace and Love to all
My dad died when I was 7 from liver and kidney failure and he used to sing this to me every night. I miss him so much. And this song hits hard every time I hear it.
Used to sing this song to my kids all the time as I'm sure many other U2 fans did. Great song, great band. Condolences to you.
Your dad is still with you every night singing his beautiful song just for you his spirt lives on In you x
Matty, read your post while listening to U2"s Running to Stand Still and saw your post about your Dad. I lost my Dad in 2008 and my mom in 2013. I wanted you to know that things do get better, you just have to give it time. Losing someone isn't something you get over, you get through it as best you can. You're going to be ok
Condolences.
Ahh bless u 😇
My favourite U2 Song of all time
Beautiful song. One of their very best. Joshua Tree is a masterpiece! 🙌🏻
There's pop, heavy, metal, dance, hip -hop, jazz, etc........and then there's U2. A music in a class of its own - undefinable, a mystery, from another dimension, celestial, spiritual, absolutely beautiful......I've always thought this about U2 and always struggled to define what type of music I like. I like U2. I LOVE U2. The stuff these guys have produced goes hits me somewhere that no other type of music can. Spine tingling
lovely words and conveys what I also feel about this music.
You said exactly what I've always believed.
I'm totally with you my friend , a huge U2 fan since 1984
U2 can make any genre, rock, pop, gospel, you name it. They are so unique from any other band I have listened to. I love U2.
I think the only label I'd be comfortable with putting on them is "shimmer rock" which isnt even a thing, I just made it up cause it sounds right.
cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
That's the way it was in Dublin - a hard face was what you needed to fit in - BAD is the precursor to this song
sounds like much of england , then, especially the North east
Owsome
It's on a spiritual level that u can do these things. Extremely deep.
My girlfriend in college was not a giant U2 fan but she loved this song. Especially those lyrics. There's a haunting ironic beautiful absurdity to those lines.
I don't know how many thousands of times I've heard this song and it still kills me every time.
Possibly the most breathtaking song ever written. Evokes so much emotion.
Yes. It is perfect. God bless
My favorite album ever. I was in Junior High when this album came out and it changed my life.
This band is a gift from god peace and love to all
Im an ex heroin addict, u2 inspired me to get clean. Been clean 11 years now.
KEEP YOUR SHOUDERS BACK HEAD UP GO FORWARD when you feel it's hard you can't go on stop turn around and see how far you came
One of the greatest album of all time
I sing this to my son many nights. He calls it "So she woke up"... I don't know if this, or "Until the end of the world" is my favorite ever.
“Scream without raising your voice”
- His voice sounds so beautiful
I'm afraid the world will never be blessed with music such as this ever again.
You may be right... 😢
My only sister transitioned this past January and when I think of her this jam comes to mind. I miss her but I know she is no longer in pain, life slows down and I smile playing this and thinking of my sister.
Peace
KA, I am sorry for your loss. Your mindset and attitude are incredible. The only thing separating you from her right now is time.
Jim
I've been a fan of U2 since I was 8 years old. They work perfectly together. Wouldn't be the same if one of them left. Bono and Edge get all the cred, but I love Larry and Adam. Wouldn't want it any other way
one of the most beautiful songs ever made.
Beautufl song from one of the greatest albums ever made.
Beautiful SENSITIVE gentle singing. Nothing harsh or abrasive. This certainly ain't heavy metal trash! That's for sure.
My mom dated a guy for four years that really became a father figure to me but he became addicted to heroin and they split up. He was a big influence on me and since he was in the Navy I grew up and decided to join the Marines. When I graduated from basic training I learned that he overdosed when I was in training. It broke my heart that I couldn’t see him as a Marine. I miss you man. To everyone struggling with addiction, I pray for you. I hope you have the strength to overcome it
This is the last song on Joshua Tree. I could listen to this every day for the rest of my short life. Hardly ever hear this on the radio but when I do, I close my eyes and remember the young Swiss man I feel in love with at that time. He became my addiction. I felt high. I moved away from my husband. Got a divorce. Then my Swiss man left to follow his dreams. What an amazing low for me. I was never the same! But this song with it's chords and melody and simplicity worked their way into my fingers on a piano and voice to sing the hurt away. Thank you U2!
You did it to your husband and your sweet man did it to you. Karma.
This song sends chills down my spine, everytime.
The harmonica at the end, the lyrics, the beginning of the song. My god I am just in pure bliss when I hear this.
I was born I stl. We never stayed in one address for very long. My mother's husband at the time was abusive. South stl in the eighties on the streets were different. She got us out of there. She died in 2007. This song is completely nostalgic in every way. When I hear this I think of her. My mother.
I think this is my favorite U2 song ever...
this and Bad.
Frank Taylor Bad z class i love that song there is so many U2 songs that are fantastic a dont know why they get so much hate? i can understand bono acting like a knob most times the things he says but the rest of the band are fine. My favourite U2 song would have 2 b 1 tree hill.
Al Pacino Al, yeah, they get a lot of negativity, for no discernible reason, but in the immortal words of Paul Hewson, "....it's hard carrying the weight of the world...."
me too.....so powerful
Richard Marshall Bowman'' not everyone can carry the weight of the world.......'' Talk about the passion, R.E.M., also a great ethereal and magical song....it's hard to beat the first few lp's from u2 and rem back in the day......
Joshua Tree never gets old! I can still play it non stop
This song popped in my head when I was gonna end it then I just thought ov my kids saved my life
And today. 4-22-20
I forgot to mention U2 has and always will be my absolute favorite band of all time. Poetry and real life realized in A song or songs. Could not get any better
The Joshua Tree is the greatest thing ever recorded. But honestly, all their albums are classics.
+chinafakeeggs I know, I could spend an eternity talking about each song. All of the songs are powerful in their own right and just mesh together so well it never comes off as pretentious or overzealous. It's just perfect.
+chinafakeeggs That's how I feel with the October album, I listen to it in one sitting on a chilly, windy autumn day in October with the windows open.
+chinafakeeggs I love "All That You Can't Leave Behind", and "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb", "No Line in the Horizon" was ok, but Songs of Innocence is really good.
I also really liked the single "Invisible". But it's true, their material is miles above anything put out by lousy artists.
+chinafakeeggs I listen to music like Mindy Smith, Ingrid Michelson, Kathleen Edwards, Mat Kearney, Ana Ternheim, Brandi Carlile, Courtyard Hounds, Courtney Jaye, give any of these artists a listen, they have amazing music. Plus I listen to a plethora of 80's and 90's music, and a little 70's every now and then.
+chinafakeeggs There is "some" good music out there, just that what's put on the radio is absolute garbage, your Katy Perry and what not are the life suckers of music.
But try giving one of the artists I mentioned a listen, I suggest Mindy Smith, the albums "One Moment More" , "Long Island Shores" are really nice albums. She's sort of country/singer/song writer/contemporary adult pop, but very stripped down and down to earth.
Certainly one of Bono's finest vocal performances ever.
Amazes me every time
Brings me to tears every time I hear it. Absolutely his best!
1 of the greatest songs of all time and also 1 of thee greatest bands of all time, Thank you u2 for helping me thru some of the toughest times of my life...
Seven towers Ballymun,
Named after the Seven Easter Rising Leaders of 1916..All executed by the british in Kilmainham jail..Rest in Peace brave soldiers.....
Thomas Clarke,
Sean mc Dermott,
Thomas mc Donagh,
Patrick Pearse,
Eamonn Ceannt,
James Connolly,
Joseph Plunkett...
The dreams and fight lives on.....
Amen
This song of my tweens, while reading my Stephen Kings book
The Talisman, I have a whole soundtrack to this book.
Ahhhh
Youth to be young. And to Grow!
I love that book!
U2 is not just a band...they're a mindset that that truly helps bring a person harmony! Whenever I am feeling troubled, I listen and wait for that special something that words alone just can't describe. I don't have enough space to say all the things U2 mean to me but if I were stuck on a desert island, I'd want to have there music!
Joseph Oliva ....100 percnt perfect...
Well said buddy
I feel that. It's the same for me.
Every time the song reaches "scream without raising your voice", I feel like I'm going to cry, then when it reaches "she is raging, she is raging, and the storm blows up in her eyes", I feel uplifted, no other song currently moves me as much.
Yes so true
BEST SONG OF THE PLANET 👌👌👌👈👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💗💗💗
Kill me, but for me this track is the best U2 song ever.
One of the GREATEST songs Ever!!! This is the Best of the whole album!
From u2’s best album and still their best song it is pure poetry.I have never experienced or dabbled in drugs and yet Bono’s voice and the lyrics convey what it’s like to be an addict.This is music.This is art.This is not Nicki Minaj.This is not One Direction.THIS MATTERS.And therefore will affect people and be remembered by all
This is a great song. While the big sound openers on Joshua Tree got all the air play, I think some of the quieter songs later on are the best part of the album.
Lyrically, this is probably the most beautiful song I know of. This and Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World. I'm not usually a poetic minded person, but I am an addict. Perhaps that is why this song gets to me like it does...
It's December 2023.
This is such a beautiful song.
So many memories. ❤
I used to work as a volunteer with homeless people and a lot of them were heroin addicted. I knew this guy who I definetely knew was addicted and I was really frustrated because I knew his potential and I knew how damn hard he was wasting his life. One day we were talking about something and he was giving me bullshit and I said "Just stop, you remind me of a song (the guy used to play the guitar, as a matter of fact he carried his guitar everywhere; probably one of the few things he possessed)". And I told him about this song. He tried to know what was this song about and I just told him to just find the song and listen to it. The next day I didn't find him on the streets, neither on the next day. I didn't see him for like 9 months, I thought that he died from an overdose or something. And then he calls me (he didn't have a cellphone before, although sometimes he called me from payphones). He listened to the song and got really moved by it and I guess it was like a click he made back then. He decided to move from Lisbon to the south of Portugal so he wouldn't be around the same people as he was used to. He played the guitar for the tourists in Algarve (Portugal) and one day he was hired to play in a bar. And after that he returned to Lisbon where he managed to get a job also in a bar, playing for the customers. And as I know he is clean now, has a girlfriend he is going to marry and I just hope that the addiction is history.
So, this song just reminds me how sometimes we have these moments when magic can really happen. This song for me is magical.
+hcraveiro
that's fucking beautiful. Thanks for sharing mate
I recently lost a buddy to heroin here in Toronto.
Knowing him and his memory keep me grateful and clean.
Great post by the way.
Thanks for sharing.
+hcraveiro orgulho :)
+stalag14 Sorry to hear that. I just hope that people never lose their...hope
AMEN AND AMEN...God is so wonderful, even if we don't acknowledge HIm at times.
This song can enlighten you to think of it in many ways. It has helped me get through rough times ,and it says alot running to stand still means your running to find a peace of harmony from your past bad experiences. Its a deep and thoughtful song. One of there best, ever recorded. Thank you bono.
This song is about Heroin addiction.
Always chasing the next hit "Running".
Ultimately, never getting anywhere "standing still"
Drugs will make you chase them non-stop, but you'll never anywhere, meanwhile everyone else moves on in life.
Bono with his harmonica, if that's not an Easter Sunday treat i never know what is.
I played this when it was a best friend's 40th birthday! It was about 9-30 in the evening! We'd had a few bevies 😜 Our children couldn't get over how we both knew every word! Thanks U2 for all your brilliant music especially this track! 🤗💕
Being a recovering person and being facilitated with this song before the addiction kicked off brings in such a rush of nostalgic coincidence…… I think it was this song that helped me get to the depths of U2 and being clean now all these years later it helps me appreciate what a fortunate soul I am.
I play guitar and sing
Learned this song 25 years ago and it’s still my favorite to play and sing. So gorgeous. Lyrics are amazing. It’s just a simple but absolutely perfect song
I got this album on tape aged 14 and this song punched me in the gut the whole album blew my mind
When U2 were still class.
Good old U2.
Make's me happy and sad, on the same time.
Such a good memories of this song.
Thx again lads ❤👍👍❤.
Me to
Beautiful - haunting - perfect.
Saw the Joshua Tree in 87, in L.A. They did the WHOLE album. This song was amazing.
I m completly lost in his voice . Love for ever
I’ve been dreading this moment but knew it was inevitable. I’m here because my younger brother just succumbed to an overdose and I can’t get this hauntingly beautiful song out of my head. Despite your struggles as an adult, I’ll always remember you Mike as my kid brother full of life and happiness…the good times. I will miss you forever but find solace knowing that you are no longer running to stand still.
still gives me thrills all over my body....best band ever for me and due to nostalgia and youth memories, there will never ever be a better band for me. tanx for everything U2 !
This song makes me feel..
The first U2's songs, so deeply impressive, this one sounds like a sweet ballad. There's common people's life, such a variety of feelings. Bono's voice is really superb (but don't forget Morten Harket, the A-ha singer, another style, of course, my best two singers). True music and true singers.
Deeply moving, incredibly emotional & relatable song for me. 😭 RIP little bro 7/2/2014
A long time later , the same scourge , the same courage needed.
What a beautiful song, i have loved U2 since i was a kid & the joshua tree is up there in mu all time fave albums ever, got into metal, rave, country classical, but U2 have always been a favourite
such a well written tune..
I loved a boy. He didn't love me the same. I still had hope. My life was terrible but I still had my sister,she was my life and my breath. This album was with me,always.
And now...
Such a simple, yet awesome and powerful, song. Reminds me of my sister before she passed. (R.I.P., Nora)
My brother same thing.
steveninthe Thank you.
I am sad for your loss. That is so sad but somehow, to reminded of your sister by such a wonderful song must be a comfort to you.
no one can sing like bono and the edge. lot of love to u2.
sure
This song makes me cry... Since the 80's...😔🥺😭
This song is about addiction....but its not always drugs that kills your soul and takes over your life. This song hits hard for me, for all the inadequacy...the loss...lack of love...abandonment...being alone...and mental/emotional abuse the biggest loves of my life have given me. If being defeated paid, I'd be the wealthiest woman in the world...
My daughter passed 6/16/05 from the effects of heroin. the song is personal.
+Casey Compton Sorry to hear that Casey, my deep condolences for you.
+Casey Compton sorry for your loss. I'm clueless about your pain.Love.
so sorry to hear of your loss.
+Casey Compton I'm sorry for your loss Casey, this' you tube' reaches millions of people, if just one lady or guy turns their life around after reading your comments, then your words are worth millions....
I'm sorry...😳
It's been about 20 years....
Still echoes my soul in depth....
Sou um eterno fã do U2. Parabéns.Sou de Moçambique.
I will never tire of listening to this song. It's always one of the best.