U2's 'You’re The Best Thing About Me ' song lyrics from Songs of Experience
You’re The Best Thing About Me is from the Songs of Experience album. Officially, it was the first single to be released.
A song called Blackout was released as a live video earlier.
The blue cover art features the Edge's Daughter.
A remix on the song has been released. It's called "You're the Best Thing About Me (U2 Vs. Kygo)", Kygo being the remixer. This is a return to past U2 roots - as in the 1990's U2 were really into remixes - the Paul Oakenfold version of Even Better than the Real thing charted higher than the original! U2 have also released two other versions of the song, an acoustic version and a 'sci-fi soul mix' which is intended to be the preferred format for radio stations.
The lyrics meaning are almost cryptic. Bono said this about the song to Rolling Stone Magazine:
"We must resist surrendering to melancholy for only the most special moments. That's a long way to say check our new single out, "You're the Best Thing About Me," it's kind of like punk Supremes."
Poets eh?
'You’re The Best Thing About Me ' song lyrics by U2
When you look so good
The pain in your face doesn’t show
When you look so good
And baby, you don’t even know
When the world is ours
But the world is not your kind of thing
Full of shooting stars
Brighter as they’re vanishing
Oh, you’ve seen enough
To know it’s children who teach
You’re still free enough
To wake up on a bed or a beach
You’re the best thing about me
The best thing that ever happened
A boy
You’re the best thing about me
I’m the kind of trouble that you enjoy
You’re the best thing about me
The best things are easy to destroy
You’re the best thing about me
The best thing about me
I been crying out
How bad can a good time be
Shooting off my mouth
That’s another great thing about me
I have everything
But I feel like nothing at all
There’s no risky thing
For a man who’s determined to fall
You’re the best thing about me
The best thing that ever happened
A boy
You’re the best thing about me
I’m the kind of trouble that you enjoy
You’re the best thing about me
The best things are easy to destroy
You’re the best thing about me
Why am I walking away
Walking away
Why am I walking away
Edge sings this next verse:
I can see it all so clearly
I can see what you can’t see
I can see you lover her loudly
When she needs you quietly
And back to Bono:
You’re the best thing about me
The best things are easy to destroy
You’re the best thing about me
Why am I
Why am I walking away
Walking away
Why am I walking away
Here's the official U2 video of the song which features the band having a good time in New York.
Some other titles of songs mentioned by Bono for the Songs of Experience album include: