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U2 "Running to Stand Still"
Verses/Intro:
D and G chords alternate
D x x 0 2 3 2
G x x 5 4 3 5
Chorus: ("A la la la de day", and "She will suffer the needle chill....")
A Bm G A Bm G D
A x x 7 6 5 x
BM x x x 5 5 5
x's represent muted strings, #'s represent fret positions, 0's are open strings
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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SLUT Badass |
#1 by SLUT at Oct 5, 2007 at 6:28 AM EST |
| This one's about drugs. When they perform it live, he mimes the act of shooting up. Plus there's all the biographical stuff mentioned above about the housing projects in Dublin, heroin in the city, etc. etc. etc. The metaphor for quitting drugs could apply to extricating yourself from any unhealthy situation in your life and making a new start. But in the strictest sense, this is a song about heroin addiction. | |
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phil Wanna Be |
#2 by phil taylor at Oct 7, 2007 at 5:13 PM EST |
| weeell buttofmalmsey i dont know Bono personally but the lyrics seem to suggest a drug addiction - "i took the poison from the poison stream, then i floated out of here."... and... "she will suffer the needle chill." the lyrics in general seem to articulate some sort of hopelessness - some kind of desire to escape from something that you know you really cant (addiction) - hence the term 'running to stand still'. also, "step on a steam train" cooould be a reference to what people call taking heroin, 'riding the H-train'. or that could be looking too far into it. anyway i think this song communicates hopelessness and dependence beautifully. | |
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Justin Wanna Be |
#3 by Justin at Oct 20, 2007 at 8:11 AM EST |
| These sensitively written lyrics are about the observance of a junkie; also, about her environment, which creates a social commentary as secondary to the primary subject of heroin addiciton. "You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice" - this is what addiction is...it's crying without weeping, talking without speaking, and screaming without raising your voice. Being a junkie is such a quiet thing. And addiction, especially to heroin, which is a repetitive, consistent addiction, is "running to stand still". | |
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