Released: March 9, 1987
Songwriter: Bono
Producer: Brian Eno Daniel Lanois
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill
As the day begs the night for mercy, love
A sun so bright it leaves no shadows
Only scars carved into stone on the face of earth
The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
We see the sun go down in your eyes
You run like a river on to the sea
You run like a river runs to the sea
And in the world, a heart of darkness, a fire-zone
Where poets speak their heart then bleed for it
Jara sang, his song a weapon in the hands of love
You know his blood still cries from the ground
It runs like a river runs to the sea
It runs like a river to the sea
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill
We run like a river runs to the sea
We run like a river to the sea
And when it's rainin', rainin' hard
That's when the rain will break a heart
Rainin', rainin' in your heart
Rainin' in your heart
Rainin', rain into your heart
Rainin', rainin', rainin'
Rain into your heart
Rainin', ooh, rain in your heart, yeah
Feel it
Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea
As the day begs the night for mercy, love
A sun so bright it leaves no shadows
Only scars carved into stone on the face of earth
The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
We see the sun go down in your eyes
You run like a river on to the sea
You run like a river runs to the sea
And in the world, a heart of darkness, a fire-zone
Where poets speak their heart then bleed for it
Jara sang, his song a weapon in the hands of love
You know his blood still cries from the ground
It runs like a river runs to the sea
It runs like a river to the sea
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill
We run like a river runs to the sea
We run like a river to the sea
And when it's rainin', rainin' hard
That's when the rain will break a heart
Rainin', rainin' in your heart
Rainin' in your heart
Rainin', rain into your heart
Rainin', rainin', rainin'
Rain into your heart
Rainin', ooh, rain in your heart, yeah
Feel it
Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea
more tracks from the album
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)
From the albums
- The Joshua Tree (1987)
- The Best of 1980-1990 (1998)
U2 popular songs
- 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