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U2 – Dancing Barefoot (1989) | Track profile | Dork

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The Best of 1980-1990 & B-Sides
Dancing Barefoot

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Dancing Barefoot

Release date: 3rd April 1989

From The Best of 1980-1990 & B-Sides

About This Track

'Dancing Barefoot' by U2 is on the compilation album 'The Best of 1980-1990 & B-Sides' and was released in 1989. The lyrics cast a captivated, almost devotional voice, with the singer swept along by an overpowering presence and wondering why they are moving so recklessly. There is a sense of surrender to “Some strange music”, as the image of dancing barefoot becomes the refrain’s physical shorthand for being taken over.

"Dancing Barefoot" is a track by U2, from the album The Best of 1980-1990 & B-Sides, released 3rd April 1989. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

U2

Lyrics

Dancing Barefoot

[Verse 1]

She is benediction

She is addicted to he

She is the root connection

And she is connecting with me

[Pre-Chorus]

Here I go and I don't know why

I spin so ceaselessly

Could it be he's taking over me?

[Chorus]

I'm dancing barefoot

Headed for a spin

Some strange music drags me in

It makes me come up like some heroine

[Verse 2]

She is sublimation

She is the essence of thee

She is concentrating on

He who is chosen by she

[Pre-Chorus]

Here I go and I don't know why

I spin so ceaselessly

Could it be he's taking over me?

[Chorus]

I'm dancing barefoot

Headed for a spin

Some strange music drags me in drives me on

It makes me come up like some heroine

[Verse 3]

She is recreation

She, intoxicated by thee

She has the slow sensation that

He is levitating with she

[Pre-Chorus]

Here I go and I don't know why

I spin so ceaselessly

'Til I lose my sense of gravity

[Chorus]

I'm dancing barefoot

Heading for a spin

Some strange music drives me on

Makes me come up like some heroine

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

Oh God, I feel for you

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From The Best of 1980-1990 & B-Sides

1989

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Album

The Best of 1980-1990 & B-Sides

Release year

1989

—Bass Trap
—Sweetest Thing (The Single Mix)
—Everlasting Love
—Dancing Barefoot
—Spanish Eyes
—Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)
—Hallelujah Here She Comes
—October
—Unchained Melody
—Walk to the Water
—Endless Deep
—A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
—With Or Without You
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—Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl

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Writer: Ivan Král, Patti Smith
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Engineer: Paul Barrett
Bass: Adam Clayton
Drums: Larry Mullen Jr.
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