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Mofo by U2

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U2

Mofo

Release date: 3rd March 1997

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About This Track

'Mofo' by U2 is a rock track from the album 'Pop', released in 1997. The lyrics seek salvation while sounding suspicious of empty belief, with drug references, religious imagery, and a take on rock and roll as cluttered spectacle. Amid the prowling, restless search for a “God-shaped hole”, there is also a violent streak of slang and provocation, aimed at both devotion and the kind of street-culture bravado that performs holiness as style. The voice turns prayer into mockery and ends up back at the same craving, pressed up against a blunt, contemporary cynicism.

"Mofo" is a track by U2, from the album Pop, released 3rd March 1997. The track is 5:49 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Mofo

Lookin' for to save my, save my soul
Lookin' in the places where no flowers grow
Lookin' for to fill that God-shaped hole
Mother, mother-suckin' rock an'roll

Holy dunc, space junk coming in for the splash
White dopes on punk staring into the flash
Lookin' for the baby Jesus under the trash
Mother, mother-suckin' rock an' roll
Mother
Mother, mother-suckin' rock an' roll
Mother
Mother
Mother
Mother
Mother
Mother
Mother

Mother, am I still your son?
You know I've waited for so long
To hear you say so

Mother, you left and made me someone
Now I'm still a child, but no one tells me no

Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world
Lookin' for the father of my two little girls
Got the swing, got the sway, got my straw in lemonade
Still lookin' for the face I had before the world was made
Mother, mother-suckin' rock an' roll
Mother
Mother, mother-suckin' rock an' roll
Mother
Mother, mother-suckin' rock an' roll
Mother
Mother
Mother
Mother

Soothe me, mother
Rule me, father
Move me, brother
Woo me, sister

Soothe me, mother
Rule me, father
Show me, mother
Show me, mother

Show me, mother
Show me, mother
Show me, mother
Show me, mother

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Track details

From Pop

5:491997
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Pop
Pop
U2
3rd March 1997
Track number
3
Release year
1997
  1. 1Discothèque
    5:19
  2. 2Do You Feel Loved
    5:07
  3. 3Mofo
    5:49
  4. 4If God Will Send His Angels
    5:22

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