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Lyrics for Silver and Gold by U2:
| | | Artist: | U2 |
| | Album: | Rattle and Hum | | Track: | Silver and Gold | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 233 | | | | Lyrics: | In the shit house a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
Only the hunter was hunted
In
this tin can town
Tin can town
No stars in the black night
Looks like the
sky fell down
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground
Chained to
the ground
The warden said
The exit is sold
If you want a way out
Silver and
gold
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the
silence, it's crawling
It crawls under the door
There's a rope around my neck
And
there's a trigger in your gun
Jesus say something
I am someone, I am someone
I am
someone
Captain and kings
In the ships hold
They came to
collect
Silver and gold
Silver and gold
Seen the coming and
going
Seen them captains and the kings
See them navy blue uniforms
See them bright
and shiny things
Bright shiny things
The temperature is rising
The fever
white hot
Mister, I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you got
Chains
no longer bind me
Not the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the
free
Set them free
Set them free
A prize fighter in a corner is
told
Hit where it hurts
Silver and gold
Silver and gold
[spoken
part follows:]
Yep, silver and gold...
This song was written
in a hotel room in New York city 'round about the time a friend of ours, little Steven, was puting
together a record of artists against apartheid. This is a song written about a man in a shanty town
outside of Johannesburg. A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa. A man
who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor. A man who has lost
faith in the peacemakers of the west while they argue and while they fail to support a man like
bishop Tutu and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I buggin'
you? I don't mean to bug ya...
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