Music With A Conscience: Bullet The Blue Sky

Bullet The Blue Sky
Artist: U2
Year: 1987 (performed 2005 @ the Vertigo Tour)

In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly,
A red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue

In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
Jacob wrestled the angel
And the angel was overcome
You plant a demon seed
You raise a flower of fire
See them burning crosses
See the flames higher and higher

Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue

This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slappin' 'em down
One hundred, two hundred

And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
WE take the staircase to the first floor
WE turn the key and slowly unlock the door
a man breathes into a saxophone
through the walls you hear the city groan
Outside it's America
Outside it's America

Across the field you see the sky ripped open
and the rain all through a gaping wound
Pounding on the women and children pounding the woman and children
Who run.......who run
Into the arms...
...of America

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