Love Rescue Me
by U2

Album: Rattle And Hum (1988)
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  • Love rescue me
    Come forth and speak to me
    Raise me up and don't let me fall
    No man is my enemy
    My own hands imprison me
    Love rescue me

    Many strangers have I met
    On the road to my regret
    Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
    They ask me to reveal
    The very thoughts they would conceal
    Love rescue me

    And the sun in the sky
    Makes a shadow of you and I
    Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
    I'm here without a name
    In the palace of my shame
    Said, love rescue me

    In the cold mirror of a glass
    I see my reflection pass
    See the dark shades of what I used to be
    See the purple of her eyes
    The scarlet of my lies
    Love rescue me

    Yea, though I walk
    In the valley of shadow
    Yea, I will fear no evil
    I have cursed thy rod and staff
    They no longer comfort me
    Love rescue me
    Sha la la, sha la la la
    Sha la la la, ha la la
    Sha la la la, sha la la la
    Sha la la la, sha la la
    Sha la la la, sha la la la
    Sha la la
    I said love, love rescue me

    I said love
    Climb up the mountains, said love
    I said love, oh my love
    On the hill of the son
    I'm on the eve of a storm
    And my word you must believe in
    I said love, rescue me
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

    Yeah I'm here without a name
    In the palace of my shame
    I said love rescue me

    I've conquered my past
    The future is here at last
    I stand at the entrance
    To a new world I can see
    The ruins to the right of me
    Will soon have lost sight of me
    Love rescue me Writer/s: Adam Clayton, Bob Dylan, David Evans, Laurence Muller, Paul Hewson
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Mark from Christchurch, New Zealandlove rescue me is and always be a important song to me as it was my dads fav song which was his last song played when we buried him. I now have the words LOVE RESCUE ME tattooed on my chest along side his name. I wonder if bands know just how much impact they have?
    STEVE JEFFERY WILSON
    1959 TO 2004
  • Angela from Hagerstown, Mdone of my fave songs. i converted a "U2-hating Bob Dylan fan" via this song.
  • Kyle from Perth, AustraliaThe lyrics found in the Rattle and Hum book contain a verse not on the actual track, and don't give the lyrics for the part after "sha la la la la..."

    The supposed lyrics for this bit are:

    "I said love
    Climb up the mountains, said love
    I said love, oh my love on the hill
    On the hill of the son
    I'm on the eve of a storm
    And my word you must believe in love
    Oh, I said love, rescue me
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah"

    Possibly another of Bono's many improvised bits.
  • Mary from Medina, Nywow...im readin this now,and these lyrics are incredible...very,very nice work by dylan and bono
  • Carrie from Detroit, MiAs wierd as it sounds, this song came to Bono in a dream. He woke up with it running through his head and he couldn't get it out. He had a lunch date with Bob Dylan that day and that's when he asked him if it was a Dylan song.
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