Are you gonna wake again?
Are you gonna take it down?
Oh babe, I don't wanna deal it
Oh, make it alright
Gimme some, my love
Away, away, away

I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I will see that love again, and find a life again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again

I wanted to let it go
Just couldn't let it go
I wanted to let it go
Just couldn't let you go

I would catch you
(Just couldn't let you go)
I'd catch you as you fall
(Just couldn't let it go)
I would catch you
(Just couldn't let you go)
I'd catch you if I heard your call

But you tore a hole in space
Like a dark star, falls from grace
You burn across the sky
And I would find you wings to fly
And I would catch you
I would catch your fall

I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I will see that love again, and find a life again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again


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    This song is gorgeous- gogeously depressing too. :(

    The lyrics that Bono wrote ache of sadness. About wishing you could have been there and done something at the time. The chorus- "I just want t slide away"- is proably exactly as it says- wanting to slide away, to let it go, forget everything and go see the ones you love. It's about trying to find yourself and yur life again.

    EnduringChillon July 17, 2011   Link

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