U2: Acrobat

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Don't believe what you hear
Don't believe what you see
If you just close your eyes
You can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl
You had fire in your soul
What happened your face
Of melting in snow
Now it looks like this

And you can swallow
Or you can spit
You can throw it up
Or choke on it
And you can dream
So dream out loud
You know that your time is coming 'round
So don't let the bastards grind you down

No, nothing makes sense
Nothing seems to fit
I know you'd hit out
If you only knew who to hit
And I'd join the movement
If there was one I could believe in
Yeah I'd break bread and wine
If there was a church I could receive in
'cause I need it now

To take a cup
To fill it up
To drink it slow
I can't let you go
I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And don't let the bastards grind you down

Oh, it hurts baby
(What are we going to do now it's all been said)
(No new ideas in the house and every book has been read)

And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And you can find
Your own way out
You can build
And I can will
And you can call
I can't wait until
You can stash
And you can seize
In dreams begin
Responsibilities
And I can love
And I can love
And I know that the tide is turning 'round
So don't let the bastards grind you down

Category:

Music

Tags:

• U2
• Zoo
• TV
• Bono
• Acrobat
• Achtung
• Baby
• rock
• music

[argentinianguy]

CRAZY TIMES!!!!!!! let them come back!!!!!!!!!!

[OfficialMMORPG]

THE BEST SONG EVER CREATED



[killer600000]

Im a massive U2 fan, but man is Bono a twat

[leferinkAG]

more plz!

[kittybunnyface]

@LucindaLC Hey Lucinda i was at the Hershey show right up near the stage. Wasn't it cool when Bono shook the bottle of champagne and sprayed it on at the crowd? Good times.

[mp0615]

It's funny that people talk about this not ever being recorded live - yes it was - it was on the encore at the point 1993 last venue of zootv - but all the youtube versions i've heard are identical to ach baby - if you look hard enough theres plenty of live ones - what do i do when all the books have been read...................

[Muldfeld]

Great work.

[LucindaLC]

@Cerpintaxt13 I was at that show at Hershey! In the 5th row!

[OapostropheC]

An ad for American Military University played after this song. Seriously!!

[Cerpintaxt13]

@hottunes007 - from u2gigs.com "Acrobat is the only track to never appear live. (from the album 'Achtung Baby') U2 rehearsed an acoustic version in private rehearsals preceding the 7 August 1992 public rehearsal in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with the intention of using it to open concerts as a segue into Zoo Station. This is where widely distributed bootleg recordings of "live" Acrobat come from; it never made it out of rehearsals."