All That You Can't Leave Behind

"Beautiful Day" 




The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room, no space to rent in this town
You're out of luck, and the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck, and you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend, to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace 

It's a beautiful day
The sky falls and you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away 

You're on the road, but you've got no destination
You're in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town, even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over, and it's been all over you 

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day 

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case 

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light, and
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out 

(Day)
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day 

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case 

What you don't have, you don't need it now
What you don't know, you can feel it somehow
What you don't have, you don't need it now
Don't need it now 

It was a beautiful day 
 

 



"Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" 

I'm not afraid of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me that
I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find a decent melody
A song that I can sing in my own company 

I never thought you were a fool
But darling, look at you
You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere, baby 

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and
now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it 

I will not forsake, the colors that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears,
and through your eyes I can see 

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough, and you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now ... my oh my 

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
and you can't get out of it
Oh love look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
and you can't get out of it 

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm till you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all 

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
and you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now
You're stuck in a moment
and you can't get out of it 

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass 

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass 
 

 



"Elevation" 

High, higher than the sun
You shoot me from a gun
I need you to elevate me here
At the corner of your lips
As the orbit of your hips
Eclipse, you elevate my soul 

I've got no self-control
Been living like a mole
Now going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation 

A star lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you could educate my mind
Explain all these controls
I can't sing but I've got soul
The goal is elevation 

A mole, living in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation 

Love, lift me up out of these blues
Won't you tell me something true
I believe in you 

A mole, digging in a hole
Digging up my soul
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation 

Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation 
 

 



 "Walk On" 

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage that you can bring
Love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind 

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong 

Oh, Oh
Walk on
Walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No, they can't even feel it
Walk on
Walk on
Stay safe tonight 

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away a singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly, for freedom 

Oh Oh
Walk on
Walk on
What you got, you can't deny it
Can't sell it, or buy it
Walk on
Walk on
You stay safe tonight 

And I know it aches
How your heart, it breaks
You can only take so much 

Walk on
Walk on 

Home, hard to know what it is
If you've never had one
Home, I can't say where it is
But I know I'm going home
That's where the hurt is 

And I know it aches
And your heart, it breaks
And you can only take so much 

Walk on 

Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind 

All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel
All this you can leave behind 

All that you reason - it's only time (?)
All that I'm feeling on my mind (??)
All that you sense,
All that you scheme,
All you dress-up,
And all that you see,
All you create,
All that you wreck,
All that you hate 
 

 



"Kite" 

Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did 

And hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin 

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone, anything at all 

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye 

In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me 

I'm a man, I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes 

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye 

Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Roof top to the basement
The last of the rock stars
When hip hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
That was the big idea 
 

 



 "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 end
If I crawl, if I come crawling home
Will you be there? 

In a little while I won't be blown by every breeze
Friday night running to Sunday on my knees
That girl, that girl, she's mine
Well I've known her since, since she was
A little a girl with Spanish eyes
When I saw her first in a pram they pushed her by
Oh my, my how you've grown
Well it's been, it's been a little while 

Slow down my beating heart
A 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 
 

 



 "Wild Honey" 

In the days when we were swinging from the trees
I was a monkey stealing honey from a swarm of bees
I could taste, I could taste you even then
And I would chase you down the wind 

You could go there if you please
Wild honey
And if you go there, go with me
Wild honey 

Did I know you?
Did I know you even then?
Before the clocks kept time
Before the world was made 

From the cruel sun
You were shelter
You were my shelter and my shade 

If you go there with me
Wild honey
You can do just what you please
Wild honey
Yeah, just blowing in the breeze
Wild honey
Wild, wild, wild 

I'm still standing, I'm still standing
Where you left me
Are you still growing wild
With everything tame around you? 

I send you flowers, cut flowers for your hall
I know your garden is full, but is there sweetness at all? 

(Bono wails something - ?) 

If you go there with me
Wild honey
Won't you take me, take me please
Wild honey
Yeah, swinging through the trees
Wild honey
Wild, wild, wild