U2-A Sort Of Homecoming (1984)

Fantastic track from U2s 1984 album "The Unforgettable Fire" and my favourite U2 song. Lyrics below...

And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance

And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape

On borderline we run
I'll be there, I'll be there tonight
A high road, a high road out from here

The city walls are all come down
The dust a smokescreen all around
See faces ploughed like fields that once
Gave no resistance

And we live by the side of a road
On the side of a hill as the valleys explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of it's own

O com away, o com away, o com
O com away, I say I
O com away, o com away, o com
O com away, I say I

Oh, oh on borderline we run
And still we run, we run and don't look back
I'll be there, I'll be there
Tonight, tonight

I'll be there tonight, I believe
I'll be there so high
I'll be there tonight, tonight

Oh com away, I say, o com away, I say

The wind will crack in wintertime
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream
Tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again tonight

And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance

Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight at last I am coming home
I am coming home

Lyrics from U2.com

**If you don't like this song then please don't comment. I will not accept any stupid, offensive or negative comments.**

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[Jegerib]

"Bad" and "A Sort Of Homecoming" are my two all time favorite U2 songs. It drags you into an indescribable mood. Like you're in another world. Unfortunately we don't have songs like this anymore. Would do anything to get back to the 80' :(

[kgrsx]

@K3nziTh0mas i couldnt agree with you more!! im 28 and remember a bit of the 80s and think the music had meaning and wasnt all about bangin chicks and chics shaking their asses in the club.

[MegaLuigiman12]

First heard this song back in 84 it blew me away. Full of harmony & balance this song is composed well with metaphors of defiance, separation, triumph, & loyalty how people can strive and reach out together and live again to see light in the distance knowing a new day will begin again. There are strength in words all you gotta do is listen it will come together.

[Dalleyne11216]

I was just 13 when I heard this and it blew my mind then as it still does this day. Forever, not too long now.

[grobby2]

Bono improvised this song. It was originally over 9 mins long. The Edge cut and shaped it down to five minutes. Blows my mind that Bono could just create harmony and lyrics in real time. The producer of this album, Brian Eno, really gave the band room to do whatever they wanted and it paid off for them and us.

[arooh]

I used to work with an old hippy when I was a Taxi driver 20 years ago and he told me about the concept of the '360 degree Man'. They are incredibly rare and have a born ability to give. They are leaders, magicians, truly great people with a terrifying capacity to love. They see everything around them all at once all the time.He was pretty stoned during the conversation.

It's pretty trendy to slag off Bono at the moment but whatever his faults he will always be to me a 360 degree Man.

[DogbiteOW]

This is the song that paints a picture in my mind.

[MegaFingers88]

I bought this in 1984, watched them at live aid then the best album ever.. came out - The Joshua Tree. Saw them at Cardiff 1988 - amazing but even better at Glasto last year. U dont notice rain when you watch U2.

[apexm5]

As a huge U2 fan that shook my dorm in 1983 with "War", there is no old v. new. Sure, some of their 90's stuff I don't care for but I know bands have to evolve or they die. When you have been together 30 years not all of it will be good but look at their last few albums. Drew me back in. The 80's are not the end all--The Smiths were a 90's band. :-) There is always good music you just have to go look for it.

[ssdivizion]

Bono is here in his best years,his voice so lovely and had 80's style and touch,many greetings to all U2-fans from Macedonia!

[ChristianEastern]

I bought this tape (yes I am that old) the Summer I turned 17. I had gotten dragged on vacation, and away from my first girlfriend. The first song on the tape is about coming home (to my GF in my case). You can imagine why and how much I liked this and the sentimental value it had