U2 – Staring At The Sun (Album: POP (1997))

Am                                     G         F                        Em

Summer stretching on the grass,  summer dresses pass

In the shade of a willow tree, creeps a crawling over me

Over me and over you, stuck together with God’s glue

It’s going to get stickier, too   

F                                              G

It’s been a long hot summer, let’s get undercover     

F                                                              G

Don’t try too hard to think, don’t think at all….  I’m not the only

C:    C                              Am

One staring at the sun

                     D           Dsus4                           F

Afraid of what you’d find if you took a look inside    (stepped back inside)           

                         C                                Am

Not just deaf & dumb staring at the sun    (I’m not sucking my thumb, I’m)

                                D         Dsus4                  F

I’m not the only one who’s happy to go blind (who’d rather go blind)

There’s an insect in your ear,  If you scratch it won’t disappear    

It’s gonna itch & burn & sting,  Do you want to see what the scratching brings

Waves that leave me out of reach,  Breaking on your back like a beach

Will we ever live in peace?     

F                                         G

Cause those that can’t do, often have to   

     F                                 G

And those that can’t do, often have to Preach, to the   [chorus]

B:    Am                  Dsus2             Am                  G

Intransigence is all around,      military still in town

Armor plated suits and ties,     Daddy just won’t say goodbye

Referee won’t blow the whistle, God is good, but will He listen?

I’m nearly great, but there’s something missing…

F                  G

I left in the, duty free though

    F                        G

You never really, belonged to me…. You’re not the  [chorus]…

{bridge chords to end}