Songwriter: Bono
Producer: Steve Lillywhite
[Verse 1]
Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky
The rivers run but soon run dry
We need new dreams tonight
Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose
Dress torn in ribbons and bows
Like a siren she calls (to me)
[Chorus]
Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country
[Verse 2]
Set me alight, we'll punch a hole right through the night
Every day the dreamers die to see what's on the other side
She is liberty, and she comes to rescue me
Hope, faith, her vanity
The greatest gift is gold
[Chorus]
Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country
[Outro]
Naked flame, she stands with a naked flame
I stand with the sons of Cain
Burned by the fire of love
Burned by the fire of love
Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky
The rivers run but soon run dry
We need new dreams tonight
Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose
Dress torn in ribbons and bows
Like a siren she calls (to me)
[Chorus]
Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country
[Verse 2]
Set me alight, we'll punch a hole right through the night
Every day the dreamers die to see what's on the other side
She is liberty, and she comes to rescue me
Hope, faith, her vanity
The greatest gift is gold
[Chorus]
Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country
[Outro]
Naked flame, she stands with a naked flame
I stand with the sons of Cain
Burned by the fire of love
Burned by the fire of love
The Joshua Tree
- One Tree Hill
- Spanish Eyes
- Walk to the Water
- Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)
- Desert of Our Love
- Race Against Time
- Beautiful Ghost/Introduction to Songs of Experience
- Rise Up
- Drunk Chicken/America
- Silver and Gold (Sun City)
- Sweetest Thing - 1987 single
- New Years Day (Live)
- Silver and Gold
- Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)
- Running to Stand Still
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
- With or Without You
- Bullet the Blue Sky
- Red Hill Mining Town
- In God’s Country
- Trip Through Your Wires
- Exit
- Mothers of the Disappeared
- Deep in the Heart
- In God’s Country (Live)
- The Joshua Tree (1987)
- One
- With or Without You
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- Beautiful Day
- Get Out of Your Own Way
- Song for Someone
- Every Breaking Wave
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- You’re the Best Thing About Me
- The Troubles
- Ordinary Love
- Vertigo
- New Year’s Day
- American Soul
- Bad
- The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
- All I Want Is You
- Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
- Summer of Love
- Raised By Wolves
- Iris (Hold Me Close)
- Invisible