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Stand Up Comedy by U2

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U2

Stand Up Comedy

Release date: 2009

From No Line On The HorizonTrack 7
3:50
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'Stand Up Comedy' by U2 is a Rock track from the album 'No Line On The Horizon', released in 2009. The lyrics mix urgent, rallying language with a lovesick, slightly comic-sounding insistence on keeping upright, with images of overstretch and distance between two towers. The narrator sings about getting up, taking a step, and trying to hold on in a dizzy world, even as falling feels close at hand, captured in the refrain-like idea of “stand up”.

"Stand Up Comedy" is a track by U2, from the album No Line On The Horizon, released 2009. The track is 3:50 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below.

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U2

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Lyrics

Stand Up Comedy

Love love love love love...
Love love love love love...

I got stand up and tale a step
You and I have been asleep for hours
I got to stand up
The wire is stretched in between our two towers
Stand up in this dizzy world
Where a lovesick eye can steal the view
I'm gonna fall down if I can't stand up
For your love

Love love love love love...
Stand up, this is comedy
The DNA lottery may have left you smart
But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart
I can stand up for hope, faith love
But while I'm getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady
Out from under your beds
C'mon ye people
Stand up for your love
Love love love love love...

I gotta stand up to ego bet my ego's not really the enemy
It's like a small child crossing an eight lane highway
On a voyage of discovery
Stand up to rock stars, Napolean is high heels
Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas
Out form under your beds
C'mon ye people
Stand up for your love
Love love love love love...

God is love
And love is evolution's very best day
Soul rockin' people moving on
Soul rockin' people on and on
C'mon ye people
We're made of stars
C'mon ye people
Stand up then sit down for your love

Love love love love love...
Love love love love love...

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Track details

From No Line On The Horizon

3:502009
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Album
No Line On The Horizon
No Line On The Horizon
U2
2009
Track number
7
Release year
2009
  1. 1No Line On the Horizon
    4:12
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    5:24
  3. 3Moment of Surrender
    7:24
  4. 4Unknown Caller
    6:03

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr., The Edge (Guitarist)
    Lyricist
    Bono
    Composer
    U2
    Producer
    Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois
    Producer
    Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite
    Engineer
    C.J. Eiriksson, Dave Clauss, David Emery, Declan Gaffney, Richard Rainey, Tom Hough
    Additional Engineering
    Declan Gaffney
    Additional Production
    Steve Lillywhite
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Dave Clauss, Dave Emery, Tom Hough
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Dave Clauss, Dave Emery, Tom Hough
    Mixing Engineer
    CJ Eiriksson, Dave Clauss, David Emery, Steve Lillywhite, Tom Hough
    Recording Engineer
    CJ Eiriksson, Richard Rainey
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