The Wanderer
I went out walking through the streets paved with gold,
Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones of a city without a soul.
I went out walking under an atomic sky where the ground won't turn
And the rain it burns like the tears when I said goodbye.
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Yeah I went with nothing, nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering
I went drifting through the capitals of tin where men can't walk
Or freely talk and sons turn their fathers in
I stopped outside a church house where the citizens like to sit
They say they want the kingdom but they don't want God in it.
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I went out with nothing, nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering
I went out walking down that winding road
Where no one's trusting no one and conscience...a too heavy load
I went out riding, down that ol'eight lane
I passed by a thousand signs looking for my own name.
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I went with nothing but the thought you'd be there, too looking for you
I went out there in search of experience
To taste and to touch and to feel's as much as a man can before he repents.
I went out searching, looking for one good man
A spirit who would not bend or break
Who could sit at his father's right hand
I went out walking with a bible and a gun
The word of God lay heavy on my heart
I was sure I was the one
Now Jesus, don't you wait up
Jesus, I'll be home soon
Yea I went out for the papers told her I'd be back by noon
Yeah I left with nothing but the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you I went out there in search of experience
To taste and to touch and to feel's as much as a man can before he repents.
Yeah I left with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you...
I went wandering
Writer(s): Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Dave Evans, Paul David Hewson
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