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Subject: CRD: A Sort of Homecoming (U2)
U2
A Sort of Homecoming (From the album "The Unforgettable Fire")
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NOTE: Much of this is taken from the book The Best of U2
Intro: G6 D2 G6 D2 G6 D2 G6 D2
And you know it's time to go
G6 D2
through the sleet and driving snow
G6 D2
across the fields of mourning to a
G6
light's in the distance
D2 G6 D4 D2
And you hunger for the time
G6 D2
time to heal, 'Desire', time
G6 D2
and your earth moves beneath
G6 D2
your own dream landscape
G6 D2
Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run________
G G2 G G2 D2 D4 D Gii
I'll be there, I'll be there
G G2 G G2
tonight, a high road, a high road out of here
D2 D4 D Gii
the city walls are all come down
the dust a smoke screen all around to see
faces ploughed like fields that once
gave no resistance
And we live by the side of the road
on the side of a hill as the valleys explode
dislocated, suffocated
the land grows weary of it's own
O come away, o come away, o come, o come away I say I hmm hmm
G6 D2 G6 D2
O come away, o come away, o come, o come away I say I
G6 D2 G6 D2
Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run, and still we run, we run and don't look back
G G2 G G2 D2 D4 D G
I'll be there, I'll be there tonight tonight tonight
G G2 G G2 D2 D4 D D4
I'll be there tonight, I believe. I'll be there so high (land),
C7
I'll be there tonight, tonight____________
D D2 G6 D2
O come away, I sing I say, um ha, o come away oh say.
G6 D2 G6 D2
The wind will crack in wintertime
G6
this bomb-blast lightning waltz
D2 G6
no spoken words, just a scream . . . yeah.... oh........ oh.....
D2 G6 D2 G6 D4 D G G2 G G2
tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land
D2 D4 D Gii
see the sky burning rain
G G2
she will die and live again tonight_______
G G2 D2 D4 D Gii G6 D2 G6 D4 D G6 D2 G6 D4 D
And you heart beats so slow
through the rain and fallen snow
across the fields of morning
to a light that's in the distance
Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
for tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home
CHORD FORMATIONS: (This might make a nice acoustic version with these)
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G6 x x 0 0 3 0
D2 x x 0 2 3 0
D4/A x 0 0 0 3 x
G 3 x 0 0 0 x
G2 3 0 0 0 0 3
D4 x x 0 2 3 3
D x x 0 2 3 2
Gii x x 0 0 3 3 (G, type 2)
C7 x 3 2 3 1 x
But The Edge is probably playing the chorus this way
(esp. for intro of live version where it is arpeggio)
G x x x 7 8 7
G2 x x x 7 10 x
D2,D x x x 7 7 10
D4,Gii x x x 7 8 10
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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chris Average |
#1 by chris at Mar 13, 1979 at 7:33 PM EST |
| mieolhc, the photo is of Moydrum Castle, Co. Westmeath, Ireland. I agree with your interpretation about ASOH being about a disaster. I think it tries to capture the feelings of the doomed survivors of total nuclear war, as they wait to be killed by radiation sickness/nuclear winter/etc. The destruction of this world creates a eurphoric anticipation of the next (i.e. the afterlife). Nicely done, I think - it's an unusual lyrical theme. Pre-death euphoria is also captured in "Hallelujah here she comes" (b-side of Desire). | |
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john Wanna Be |
#2 by john dolmayan at Dec 27, 1985 at 2:07 PM EST |
| This is one of my all time favorite U2 songs (bono has mentioned it is one of his). This song used to remind me of the conflict in Bosnia during the 1980's 1990's... To me it is the story of a man coming home after war, longing for his family or his wife/lover, thoughts going through his mind as he travels home. I think the versions from Unforgettable and Wide Awake in America are both great (the version from WAIA really captures what U2 is all about-- "build a bridge")... | |
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♥WeEzY Average |
#3 by ♥WeEzY♥ at Feb 20, 1990 at 7:16 PM EST |
| I've never heard this song until I needed a song for a school project. I needed something that ended the day "with the fat promise of a new one to come." -to quote directly from the book. And I tell you, it fulfills its purpose. | |
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Zack Wanna Be |
#4 by Zack Volm at Jun 7, 1991 at 10:10 PM EST |
| this is such an awesome song. i don't even know the studio version, i have wide awake in america and this song is so incredible on there. i relate to it not in a literal sense, necessarily but being a teenager i relate to it in a sense of finding myself and discovering life and what is important to me. i can also relate to it in a literal sense as i feel like where i live is not actually my home, so sometimes leaving and going somewhere else is a sort of homecoming to me. | |
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everett Wanna Be |
#5 by everett at Aug 20, 1992 at 1:47 AM EST |
| This song is my coming home song. I was forced to move interstate, and this was one of my coming home anthems, I put it on a tape for my friend, and listened to it as much as I could. It's a great song. The lyrics are so provocative. | |
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#6 by nirvana at Dec 29, 1998 at 4:30 PM EST |
| vertigo has the same bass line almost the same baseline as this. i wonder what drove u2 to use a riff that they hadn't used for 15 years. | |
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LJ Average |
#7 by LJ at Mar 17, 2003 at 10:16 PM EST |
| Something I forgot to mention in my previous post is that I grew up in the US till I was 10 and when I finally got to go home to the USA from Israel I played this song all the time. It really had special meaning to me to be leaving the bombs, bloodshed and tears behind and to be going home. | |
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