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This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now Lyrics
Soldier, soldier
We sign our lives away
Complete surrender the only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
We come from an ancient place
Beyond what we can see
We've come to colonize your night
And steal your poetry
Old man knows that I never listen
So how could I have something to say
Old man knows how to cheat ambition
You don't lose if you don't play
One, two, three, four
Was enough
Soldier, soldier
We sign our lives away
Complete surrender the only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
On a double decker bus
Into College Square
If you won't let us in your world
Your world just isn't there
Old man says that we never listen
We shout about what we don't know
We're taking a path of most resistance
The only way for us to go
Hup, two, three, four
Was enough
Soldier, soldier
We sign our lives away
Complete surrender the only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
This is the site
This is the season
This is where you can reach me now
This is the time
This is the number
This is where you can reach me now
We sign our lives away
Complete surrender the only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
Beyond what we can see
We've come to colonize your night
And steal your poetry
So how could I have something to say
Old man knows how to cheat ambition
You don't lose if you don't play
Was enough
We sign our lives away
Complete surrender the only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
Into College Square
If you won't let us in your world
Your world just isn't there
We shout about what we don't know
We're taking a path of most resistance
The only way for us to go
Was enough
We sign our lives away
Complete surrender the only weapon we know
Soldier, soldier
We knew the world would never be the same
Soldier, this is where you can reach me now
This is the season
This is where you can reach me now
This is the number
This is where you can reach me now
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This song is supposed to represent the alternative (a non-violent) version of Irish resistance to UK occupation of Northern Ireland. U2 was a big advocate of this, carrying white flags on horseback in their videos and such. So much bloodshed in the sectarian conflict failed to produce an English surrender— nor did an assassination (bomb) attack against Margaret Thatcher— so the MLK and Gandhi approach seemed logical. (Don’t fight, just surrender but don’t cooperate… and hope to wear down or guilt the occupational forces into retreat.) It may have saved some lives, but in the end, the current truce has left Northern Ireland still in Unionist hands. Alas, idealism doesn’t always work. I still like the song a lot though, one of the best on the album.