U2 Lyrics - Where The Streets Have No Name

Material provided by EFL teacher Julian Armoa

I want to _____________ U2 have released 12 studio albums and are among the most
I want to ________________________ critically and commercially successful groups in popular music.
I want to ____________ down the walls They have won 22 Grammy Awards,[3] more than any other
band,[4] and they have sold more than 150 million records.[5] In
That hold ___________inside
2005, the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I _____________ to reach out in their first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone magazine listed U2 at
And _____________the flame number 22 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[6]
Where the streets __________ no name Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have
campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes, including
I want to ____________ sunlight on my face Amnesty International, the ONE/DATA campaigns, Product Red,
I see the dust cloud ______________ and The Edge's Music Rising.
______________ a trace
I want to take __________ from the poison rain Song facts: In 1985, Bono visited Ethiopia after performing at Live
Where the _____________have no name Aid. Many people assumed this song was about that trip, since the streets
there really don't have names, just numbers. The song is actually about
Ireland. In Ireland (and Northern Ireland), the many cities are divided:
Where the streets have no name
rich/poor, Catholic/Protestant, etc. By knowing which street a person lives
Where the streets have no name
on you can tell their religion, wealth and beliefs - it's where the streets
We're still ____________________ have no name.
Then burning down _______________
Burning down love I think It's about class segregation. In Dublin, people know what social
And ____________ I go there standing you have based upon the street you live in. So the song is about a
I go there with you world where streets have no names; where there is no segregation based
It's all I ______________do on where you live.

The song seems to me to be idealistic - I agree that the lyrics refer to

The city's _____________ northern ireland, but I think it's a dream of a future there in which streets
And our love turns to rust have 'no names', where there is no distinction between catholic and
We're beaten and ____________by the wind protestant districts, where street names like garvaghy in portadown and
Trampled in dust ardoyne in belfast become meaningless, and lose all historical, sectarian
I'll show you a ______________ significance
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name
In N. Ireland you can tell by the name of the streets whether the person
Where the streets have no name who lives there is protestant or catholic, this song is about a place where
Where the streets have no name this no longer happens
We're still building
Then ________________ down love I think this song is about getting away from our fucked up society and our
Burning down love fucked up cities. Going to a place where it all doesn't matter, where the
And when I go there streets have no name.
I go there with you
It's all I can do Back during the time of the whole Ethiopia starvation crisis, Bono and his
Our love ______________ to rust wife Ali did a 6 week deal over there as volunteer relief workers or
We're beaten and blown by the wind something of the such. The tent cities that were set up for the people were
Blown by the wind just lined up in rows, and that was how these people lived, hence there
Oh, and I ________________ love were streets without names. 'high on a desert plain' would be referring to
See our love turn to ______________ Ethiopia, as well as the mentions of being 'blown by the wind' and
We're beaten and blown by the wind 'trampled in dust', as it was a drought and I'd imagine, awfully dusty. Also,
Blown by the wind I would assume that 'and when I go there, i go there with you...' would be
Oh, when I go ______________ referring to Ali. IMO, the beginning lines are written in frustration at the
I go there with you misery and hopelessness of the situation and his inability to make very
It's all I can ________________ much of a difference. Thats what I think

U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The group consists of

Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and
vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums
and 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.