U2 - Every Breaking Wave lyrics

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(Verse)

Every breaking wave on the shore

Tells the next one there'll be one more

Every gambler knows when to lose

It's what you're really there for

Someone else fears, now I'm speaking to an answerphone

Like every fallen leaf on the breeze

Winter wouldn't leave it alone... alone

(Chorus)

If you go, if you go your way then I'll go mine

Are we so, are we so helpless against the time?

Baby every doubt of history knows that we're in love

With defeat...

Are we ready to be swept off our feet?

And start chasin' every breaking wave?

(Verse 2)

Every sailor knows that the sea is a friend made enemy

Every shipwrecked soul knows what it is to live without intimacy

I thought I heard the captain's voice, but it's hard to listen while you preach

Like every broken wave on the shore, this is as far as I could reach...

(Chorus)

If you go, if you go your way then I'll go mine

Are we so, are we so helpless against the time?

Baby every doubt of history knows that we're in love

With defeat...

Are we ready to be swept off our feet?

And start chasin' every breaking wave?

(Bridge)

The sea knows where all the rocks are drownin' is an ocean

You know where my heart is the same place that yours has been

We know that we fear the wind and so is all have before we begin

Before we begin...

(Chorus)

If you go, if you go your way then I'll go mine

Are we so, are we so helpless against the time?

Baby every doubt of history knows that we're in love

With defeat...

Are we ready to be swept off our feet?

And start chasin' every breaking wave?