"Zooropa" song lyrics by U2


"Zooropa" song lyrics by U2


Zooropa is the first track off the album of the same name. It was released in 1993 as a follow up to Achtung Baby.

Lyrically, Zooropa achieves a new language for Bono to use - a language that's more his own, that he feels more comfortable with.  Zooropa is prime insight to that language. Well, he's come a long way since Boy.

Zooropa's lyrics have a running theme of irony, tying in the "media overload" themes of the Zoo TV Tour into the context of a post-Berlin Wall Europe.

zooropa promo cover art


The song's lyrics touch on how technology both unites as well as separates us from each other (it would be interesting to see what Bono would say about Facebook).

The Zooropa track, for instance, contains popular advertising slogans such as "Better by design", "Be All That You Can Be" and "Vorsprung durch Technik".

Zooropa Lyrics

What do you want
What do you want

Zooropa
Vorsprung durch Technik
Zooropa
Be all that you can be
Be a winner, eat to get thinner

Zooropa
A bluer kind of white
Zooropa
It could be yours tonight
We're mild and green and squeaky clean

What do you want
What do you want
Combien encore
What do you want
Que veux-tu faire
What do you want
Combien encore

Zooropa
Better by design
Zooropa
Fly the friendly skies
Through applience of science we've got that ring of confidence

And I have no compass and I have no map
And I have no reasons, no resons to get back
And I have no religion and I don't know what's what
And I don't know the limit, the limit of what we got

Zooropa
Don't worry baby, it'll be alright
Zooropa
You've got the right shoes to get you through the night
Zooropa
It's cold outside but brightly lit
Zooropa
Skip the subway, let's go to the overground
Get your head out of the mud baby
Put flowers in the mud, baby, overground

No particular place names, no particular song
I've been hiding, what am I hiding from

Zooropa
Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright
Zooropa
Uncertainty can be a guiding light
Zooropa
I hear voices, ridiculous voices
I'm in the slipstream
Zooropa
Let's go, let's go overground
Take your head out of the mud baby

She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in
She's gonna dream out loud
Dream out loud
Dream out loud

Check out the lyrics to "Babyface"  and The Edge heavy  "Numb".

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