U2 Lyrics - Where The Streets Have No Name

Material provided by EFL teacher Julian Armoa

I want to _____________
I want to ________________________
I want to ____________ down the walls
That hold ___________inside
I _____________ to reach out
And _____________the flame
Where the streets __________ no name
I want to ____________ sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud ______________
______________ a trace
I want to take __________ from the poison rain
Where the _____________have no name
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still ____________________
Then burning down _______________
Burning down love
And ____________ I go there
I go there with you
It's all I ______________do
The city's _____________
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and ____________by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a ______________
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then ________________ down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
Our love ______________ to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I ________________ love
See our love turn to ______________
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go ______________
I go there with you
It's all I can ________________

U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The group consists of

Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals),
Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and
percussion). The band formed at Mount Temple secondary school
in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical
proficiency. Within four years, they signed to Island Records and
released their debut album Boy. By the mid-1980s, they had
become a top international act. They were more successful as a live
act than they were at selling records, until their 1987 album The
Joshua Tree,[1] which, according to Rolling Stone, elevated the
band's stature "from heroes to superstars". [2]
Their 1991 album Achtung Baby and the accompanying Zoo TV
Tour were a musical and thematic reinvention for the band.
Reacting to their own sense of musical stagnation and a late-1980s
critical backlash, U2 incorporated dance music and alternative rock
influences into their sound and performances, abandoning their
earnest image for a more ironic, self-deprecating tone. Similar
experimentation continued for the remainder of the 1990s. Since
2000, U2 have pursued a more conventional sound, while
maintaining influences from their previous musical explorations.

U2 have released 12 studio albums and are among the most

critically and commercially successful groups in popular music.
They have won 22 Grammy Awards,[3] more than any other band,[4]
and they have sold more than 150 million records.[5] In 2005, the
band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their
first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone magazine listed U2 at number
22 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". [6] Throughout
their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for
human rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty
International, the ONE/DATA campaigns, Product Red, and The
Edge's Music Rising.

Song facts:

In 1985, Bono visited Ethiopia after performing at Live

Aid. Many people assumed this song was about that trip, since the streets
there really don't have names, just numbers. The song is actually about
Ireland. In Ireland (and Northern Ireland), the many cities are divided:
rich/poor, Catholic/Protestant, etc. By knowing which street a person lives
on you can tell their religion, wealth and beliefs - it's where the streets have
no name.
I think It's about class segregation. In Dublin, people know what social
standing you have based upon the street you live in. So the song is about a
world where streets have no names; where there is no segregation based on
where you live.
The song seems to me to be idealistic - I agree that the lyrics refer to
northern ireland, but I think it's a dream of a future there in which streets
have 'no names', where there is no distinction between catholic and
protestant districts, where street names like garvaghy in portadown and
ardoyne in belfast become meaningless, and lose all historical, sectarian
significance

In N. Ireland you can tell by the name of the streets whether the person who
lives there is protestant or catholic, this song is about a place where this no
longer happens
I think this song is about getting away from our fucked up society and our
fucked up cities. Going to a place where it all doesn't matter, where the
streets have no name.
Back during the time of the whole Ethiopia starvation crisis, Bono and his
wife Ali did a 6 week deal over there as volunteer relief workers or
something of the such. The tent cities that were set up for the people were
just lined up in rows, and that was how these people lived, hence there were
streets without names. 'high on a desert plain' would be referring to
Ethiopia, as well as the mentions of being 'blown by the wind' and 'trampled
in dust', as it was a drought and I'd imagine, awfully dusty. Also, I would
assume that 'and when I go there, i go there with you...' would be referring
to Ali. IMO, the beginning lines are written in frustration at the misery and
hopelessness of the situation and his inability to make very much of a
difference. Thats what I think