Released: December 7, 1985
Songwriter: Bono
Producer: U2
[Verse 1]
In the shithouse a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
If only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town, tin can town
No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fall down
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground, chained to the ground
[Chorus]
The warden says "The exit's sold."
If you want a way out...
Silver and gold, silver and gold
[Verse 2]
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence
It's crawling, crawls under the door
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun
Jesus, say something!
I am someone, I am someone
[Chorus]
Captains and Kings in the ship's hold
They came to collect
Silver and gold, silver and gold
[Bridge]
I seen the coming and the going
Seen the captains and the Kings
Seen their navy blue uniforms
Seen them bright and shiny things, bright and shiny things
[Verse 3]
The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you've got
These chains no longer bind me
Nor the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free (set them free)
[Outro]
A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold
You can stop the world from turning around
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound
In the shithouse a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
If only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town, tin can town
No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fall down
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground, chained to the ground
[Chorus]
The warden says "The exit's sold."
If you want a way out...
Silver and gold, silver and gold
[Verse 2]
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence
It's crawling, crawls under the door
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun
Jesus, say something!
I am someone, I am someone
[Chorus]
Captains and Kings in the ship's hold
They came to collect
Silver and gold, silver and gold
[Bridge]
I seen the coming and the going
Seen the captains and the Kings
Seen their navy blue uniforms
Seen them bright and shiny things, bright and shiny things
[Verse 3]
The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you've got
These chains no longer bind me
Nor the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free (set them free)
[Outro]
A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold
You can stop the world from turning around
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound
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
- Sun City (1985)
- The Joshua Tree (1987)
- Where The Streets Have No Name - single (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