U2 - Stay Far Away So Close Lyrics

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"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" is a song by U2 from their album Achtung Baby, released on November 18, 1991. The song was written by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.

Song lyrics

Green light, Seven Eleven

You stop in for a pack of cigarettes

You don't smoke, don't even want to

Hey now, check your change

Dressed up like a car crash

Your wheels are turnin' but you're upside down


You say when he hits you, you don't mind

Because when he hurts you, you feel alive

Oh no, is that what it is?


Red lights, grey morning

You stumble out of a hole in the ground

A vampire or a victim

It depends on who's around

You used to stay in to watch the adverts

You could lip-sync to the talk shows


And if you look, you look through me

And when you talk, you talk at me

And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing


If I could stay, then the night would give you up

Stay, and the day would keep its trust

Stay, and the night would be enough


Faraway, so close

Up with the static and the radio

With satellite television

You can go anywhere:

Miami, New Orleans

London, Belfast and Berlin


And, if you listen, I can't call

And, if you jump, you just might fall

And, if you shout, I'll only hear you


If I could stay, then the night would give you up

Stay, and the day would keep its trust

Stay with the demons you drowned

Stay with the spirit I found

Stay, and the night would be enough


Three o'clock in the morning

It's quiet, there's no one around

Just the bang and the clatter

As an angel runs to ground

Just the bang and the clatter

As an angel hits the ground

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