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Stuck in a moment

U2

2000

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 got to get yourself together

You've got stuck in a moment

and now you can't get out if 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

The night 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, ahh ahh

I know it's tough

And you can never get enough

Of what you don't really need now....my oh my


You got to get yourself together

You've got stuck in a moment

and now you can't get out if 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 was warm until you discover how deep....

I wasn't jumping....for me it was a fall

It's long way down to nothing at all


You got to get yourself together

You've got stuck in a moment

and now you can't get out if 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 our way should falter

Along the stony pass

It's just a moment, this time will pass

Um lagið

Lagið „Stuck in a Moment (You Can’t Get Out Of)“ eftir U2 var gefið út árið 2000 og er hluti af plötunni All That You Can't Leave Behind. Bono skrifaði lagið í kjölfar þess að Steve Lillywhite, náinn vinur hans og tónlistarframleiðandi, framdi sjálfsvíg árið 1997. Bono hafði áður gert loforð við Steve um að hvorugur þeirra myndi fremja sjálfsvíg.


Lagið endurspeglar tilfinningar Bono um þessa sorg og áfall, en hann vildi ekki að lagið yrði eitthvað væmnishjal. Með þessu móti gat hann tjáð dýrmæt tilfinningar sínar og viðbrögð við missi Lillywhite á hátt sem var bæði trúverðugur og áhrifaríkur. Bono nýtti þessa persónulegu og erfiðu reynslu til að skapa lag sem snertir hlustendur og gefur innsýn í baráttu við sorg og að vera tilfinningalega fastur í augnabliki.


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