Album: Miss Sarajevo (1995)

Charted: 6

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• Is there a time for keeping your distance?
  A time to turn your eyes away?
  Is there a time for keeping your head down?
  For getting on with your day?
  Is there a time for kohl and lipstick?
  A time for curling hair?
  Is there a time for high street shopping?
  To find the right dress to wear?
  
  Here she comes, oh oh
  Heads turn around
  Here she comes
  To take her crown
  
  Is there a time to run for cover?
  A time for kiss and tell?
  Is there a time for different colors?
  Different names you find it hard to spell
  Is there a time for first communion?
  A time for East Seventeen?
  Is there a time to turn to Mecca?
  Is there time to be a beauty queen?
  
  Here she come, oh oh
  Beauty plays the clown
  Here she comes
  Surreal in her crown
  
  Dici che il fiume
  Trova la via al mare
  E come il fiume
  Giungerai a me
  Oltre i confini
  E le terre assetate
  Dici che come fiume
  Come fiume
  L'amore giungerà
  L'amore
  E non so più pregare
  E nell'amore non so più sperare
  E quell'amore non so più aspettare
  
  (Is there a time) for tying ribbons?
  (A time) for Christmas trees?
  (Is there a time) for laying tables?
  And the night is set to freeze? Writer/s: Adam Clayton, Brian Peter George Eno, David Evans, Laurence Mullen, Paul David Hewson
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 10

• P from AbFrank of Brampton,
  
  I don't get you. I don't want to get you. I think your comment is very sad.
• Daniel from Sydney, AustraliaI assume you're joking, Frank of Brampton with your comments about Pavarotti. His contribution to this song is incredible. it would not be the same song without him. The hairs on my neck stand on end when his powerful voice erupts into the song.
• Frank from Brampton, Ontario, CanadaThis is such a mesmerizing tune. I just love it! But I will say that opera had no place at all in a song like this and that Pavarotti literally ruined it! I blame him for trying to ruin the song and I blame U2 for allowing him to sing in it!
  
  But.... ANYWAYS.....this one's about ppl trying to hold a fashion show right in the middle of a war, and even during the show, the organizers still contemplate whether they can finish the show without getting hurt or killed.
  
  For example.. "Is there a time to run for cover,
  A time for kiss and tell,
  Is there a time for different
  colours,
  Different names you find it hard
  to spell"
  
• Przemek from Warsaw, PolandEast 17 (for those too young to remember) was a popular boyband of the early 1990s
• Dawson from Draper, UtI saw this song performed in Salt Lake and Milan, and I think Bono sounds terrific! At the Salt Lake concert, before the song began, Bono said that he had been taking Italian lessons, and understood the words very well. He also said that the song was about a place where it was always happy (Sarajevo) and then war began. As they were being bombed, they began sending out women in bikinis for a contest called Miss Sarajevo, similar to our Miss America. They used the pretty women to comicly say "How can you hurt us with such pretty ladies?" It was a great song and a great show.
• Brad from Magalia, CaI was in my English class after coming back from an extended Germany trip and My teacher plops this movie into the dvd player. The movie has the same name. She said that her friend from college went to Europe for some reason and ended up in Bosnia while this civil war was happening. He lived with the people for a long time and learned that Bono was performing in Italy or France. He left the city of Sarajevo to go talk with Bono and finally he convinced him to enlighten the world about what was happening in Bosnia. Bono wrote this song apparently as a wake-up call to the Bosnian civil war.
• Leon from Waterbury, CtI saw U2 in concert December 7th (2005), and they played this...I cannot believe Bono attempted to do Pavarotti's part! And he did it amazingly well!
• Racine from Truro, MaI saw them play "Miss Sarajevo" last night in Boston! Shame that Pavarotti wasn't there (I kind of knew he wouldn't be) but Bono's voice was amazing! That song brought me to tears.
• Jim from Lakeland, FlTo whom it may concern: Last night I saw U2 in Tampa, Fla. for the third time in my life. I heard people talking about how they performed "Miss Sarajevo" in Miami the night before. It was much to my pleasure that they performed in Tampa. And when they performed it I was in tears as well as the dude sitting next to me. What an awesome story and song. Thank you, Jim Hasenzahl
• Ishhod from Colorado Springs, CoDuring the Bosnian conflict the people of Sarajevo put on an underground fashion show(thus the name "Miss Sarajevo". This show was happening while buildings in the surrounding area were being bombed. Later during the Popmart tour, U2 came to Sarajevo to play a benifit concert they had promised to play during the Zoo TV era.

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