"Winter" song lyrics by U2 from the Brothers movie

Winter movie song lyrics




"Winter" song lyrics by U2 from the Brothers movie




Winter is a song  left over from the No Line on the Horizon recording sessions.

Winter appears in the war film Brothers at the request of director Jim Sheridan, and it plays over the closing credits.

Several different versions of the Winter have been recorded, including an uptempo rock arrangement on Linear and a slower acoustic version in Brothers.

Bono wrote Winter's lyrics in one night and they were revised just once after that. 

Tobey Maguire's character Captain Sam Cahill was the inspiration for the lyric, with the band noting that the focus on "intense hidden emotion" and the secrets he held inside "was a jumping off point, thematically."

Bono noted that film director Sheridan wanted a "complex song for a complex character" and so the band wrote two songs: "Winter" and "White as Snow". 

While "White as Snow" focuses more on the relationship between the Cahill brothers, "Winter's" lyrics contribute to a "more universal song about the experience of the armed forces in Afghanistan.

Winter Lyrics U2


The yellow sun


Well, it took the hand


Of a country boy


To a city in a far-off land


We made no mark


No shadow at all


On the ancient, holy streets


Where I learned to crawl



The broken and the bruised


The young and the used


The sure and confused


All here


Words will then land on me


Then abandon me


Mangle, untangle me


Leave me on the floor


Rhymes, they sprang in me


Summer sang in me


But summer sings in me no more

Now I'm twenty-five


And trying to stay alive


In a corner of the world


With no clear enemies to fight


It's hot as hell


We're like butter on toast


But there's no army in this world


That can fight a ghost


The broken and the bruised


The young and the used


The sure and confused


All here


Words will then land on me


Then abandon me


Leave me stranded


In guard of the door


Rhymes began in me


Summer sang in me


But summer sings in me no more


Listening to the cries


The strangers


The silence of the foreign grave


Listening to the thunder


The sky is strange


Stretched over everyone


Listening to the tales


The child sings


That goes for days and days


Listening to the calls


Shouts, frustration


At twenty-one


I was born a son


And on that day I knew


I could kill


To protect the ones


We put bullets in guns


Or anything it takes


To take a life until it's still

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