## U2 Discographie

# The Tears of ThingsLyrics

Songtexte, Album-Auftritte und Live-Statistiken

## Interpret

U2

## Album

-   [Days of Ash (EP)](/discographie/album53)   Track 2

## Live

-   » [Der Song wurde bei **0** Shows live gespielt.](/tour/songs/953)

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## Lyrics

### Lyrics: The Tears of ThingsLyrics

There's no start to this story  
And I can see no end  
To young men hearing voices  
Whisper in the wind  
I woke up made of marble  
A shepherd boy in shock  
Michelangelo release me  
From a single block  
I'm David the giant killer  
With heart-shaped eyes  
I was naked as a soldier  
Far from my mother's cries and  
  
The tears of things  
The tears of things  
Rising like a flood  
The tears of things  
The tears of things  
I'd cry them if I could  
  
Was it you, Lord, I was listening to?  
You didn't say much  
You said "Let my fingers form you,  
Be fashioned by my touch,  
Be open to be broken  
As every heart that sings,  
No voice and drum can overcome  
A symphony of strings"  
You said "You'd make of me an instrument  
For melody and word"  
I wonder as things fall asunder  
Was it really you I heard or  
  
The tears of things?  
The tears of things  
Songs made out of rain  
The tears of things  
The tears of things  
Here we go again  
  
Mussolini came to see me  
A shadow by his side  
Church bells ring, a vanishing  
Then the vanishing denied  
Six million voices silenced in just four years  
The silent song of Christendom  
So loud everybody hears  
Before the roar, before the blast  
The stench and shame  
There's a howling, wailing sound  
That screams your name  
I'm David not Goliath, I was born in Bethlehem  
And there is no us if there is no them  
My eyes were burned from all I learned  
There were things I can't unsee  
In this your holy war  
There's nothing holy here for me just  
  
The tears of things  
The tears of things  
Rising like a flood  
The tears of things  
The tears of things  
I'd cry them if I could  
  
If you put a man into a cage and rattle it enough  
A man becomes the kind of rage that cannot be locked up  
No, it cannot be locked up  
No, it cannot be locked up  
Dear God you made us so you wouldn't be alone  
Every heart is exiled until a heart gets home  
Don't send us back to stone  
Don't send us back to stone  
  
I was made for worship before I spoke I sang  
Songs of grief, of disbelief  
How a woman can love a man  
The naked song, the sacred song  
That every soldier fears  
'Cause when people go around talking to God  
It always ends in tears  
  
Yeah, the tears of things  
The tears of things  
Let the desert be unfrozen  
The tears of things  
The river sings  
Who would choose to be chosen?  
  
River, sea and mountain  
Desert, dust and snow  
Everybody is my people  
Let my people go

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