I get it now

And so she woke up

Woke up from where she was

Lying still

Said I gotta do something

About where we're going



Step on a steam train

Step out of the driving rain, maybe

Run from the darkness in the night

Singing ha, ah la la la de day

Ah da da da de day

Ah la la de day



Sweet the sin

Bitter taste in my mouth

I see seven towers

But I only see one way out



You got to cry without weeping

Talk without speaking

Scream without raising your voice



You know I took the poison

From the poison stream

Then I floated out of here

Singing...ha la la la de day

Ha la la la de day

Ha la la de day



She runs through the streets

With her eyes painted red

Under black belly of cloud in the rain

In through a doorway she brings me

White gold and pearls stolen from the sea

She is raging

She is raging

And the storm blows up in her eyes

She will...



Suffer the needle chill

She's running to stand...



Still.



© Words by Bono Running to Stand Still 1987

Additional rhythm guitar Daniel Lanois



It's good to listen to old unlabeled tapes. I found this today. Dawn & I went nuts over this song in May 1987. She was in love with Rob, I was in love with Scott. The world was in love with Bono. This song is about drugs, but at the time I took for something else.



"Scream without raising your voice." Dawn never learned how to do that.



I'm still learning, I think.