U2 Lyrics - Where The Streets Have No Name

Material provided by EFL teacher Julian Armoa

I want to _____________
I want to ________________________
I want to ____________ down the walls U2 have released 12 studio albums and are among the most
That hold ___________inside critically and commercially successful groups in popular music.
I _____________ to reach out They have won 22 Grammy Awards,[3] more than any other band,[4]
And _____________the flame and they have sold more than 150 million records.[5] In 2005, the
Where the streets __________ no name band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their
first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone magazine listed U2 at number
I want to ____________ sunlight on my face 22 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". [6] Throughout
I see the dust cloud ______________ their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for
______________ a trace human rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty
I want to take __________ from the poison rain International, the ONE/DATA campaigns, Product Red, and The
Where the _____________have no name Edge's Music Rising.

Where the streets have no name

Song facts: In 1985, Bono visited Ethiopia after performing at Live
Where the streets have no name
Aid. Many people assumed this song was about that trip, since the streets
We're still ____________________ there really don't have names, just numbers. The song is actually about
Then burning down _______________ Ireland. In Ireland (and Northern Ireland), the many cities are divided:
Burning down love rich/poor, Catholic/Protestant, etc. By knowing which street a person lives
And ____________ I go there on you can tell their religion, wealth and beliefs - it's where the streets have
I go there with you no name.
It's all I ______________do
I think It's about class segregation. In Dublin, people know what social
standing you have based upon the street you live in. So the song is about a
The city's _____________
world where streets have no names; where there is no segregation based on
And our love turns to rust where you live.
We're beaten and ____________by the wind
Trampled in dust The song seems to me to be idealistic - I agree that the lyrics refer to
I'll show you a ______________ northern ireland, but I think it's a dream of a future there in which streets
High on a desert plain have 'no names', where there is no distinction between catholic and
protestant districts, where street names like garvaghy in portadown and
Where the streets have no name
ardoyne in belfast become meaningless, and lose all historical, sectarian
significance
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
In N. Ireland you can tell by the name of the streets whether the person who
Then ________________ down love
lives there is protestant or catholic, this song is about a place where this no
Burning down love
longer happens
And when I go there
I go there with you
I think this song is about getting away from our fucked up society and our
It's all I can do
fucked up cities. Going to a place where it all doesn't matter, where the
Our love ______________ to rust
streets have no name.
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Back during the time of the whole Ethiopia starvation crisis, Bono and his
Oh, and I ________________ love
wife Ali did a 6 week deal over there as volunteer relief workers or
See our love turn to ______________
something of the such. The tent cities that were set up for the people were
We're beaten and blown by the wind
just lined up in rows, and that was how these people lived, hence there were
Blown by the wind
streets without names. 'high on a desert plain' would be referring to
Oh, when I go ______________
Ethiopia, as well as the mentions of being 'blown by the wind' and 'trampled
I go there with you
in dust', as it was a drought and I'd imagine, awfully dusty. Also, I would
It's all I can ________________
assume that 'and when I go there, i go there with you...' would be referring
U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The group consists of to Ali. IMO, the beginning lines are written in frustration at the misery and
Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), hopelessness of the situation and his inability to make very much of a
Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and difference. Thats what I think
percussion). The band formed at Mount Temple secondary school
in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical
proficiency. Within four years, they signed to Island Records and
released their debut album Boy. By the mid-1980s, they had
become a top international act. They were more successful as a live
act than they were at selling records, until their 1987 album The
Joshua Tree,[1] which, according to Rolling Stone, elevated the
band's stature "from heroes to superstars". [2]

Their 1991 album Achtung Baby and the accompanying Zoo TV

Tour were a musical and thematic reinvention for the band.
Reacting to their own sense of musical stagnation and a late-1980s
critical backlash, U2 incorporated dance music and alternative rock
influences into their sound and performances, abandoning their
earnest image for a more ironic, self-deprecating tone. Similar
experimentation continued for the remainder of the 1990s. Since
2000, U2 have pursued a more conventional sound, while
maintaining influences from their previous musical explorations.