Silver And Gold Lyrics - Rattle And Hum (live) - U2

In the shit house a shotgun 

Praying hands hold me down 

Only the hunter was hunted 

In this tin can town 

Tin can town 

No stars in the black night 

Looks like the sky fell down 

No sun in the daylight 

Looks like it's chained to the ground 

Chained to the ground 

The warden said 

The exit is sold 

If you want a way out 

Silver and gold 

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Broken back to the ceiling 

Broken nose to the floor 

I scream at the silence, it's crawling 

It crawls under the door 

There's a rope around my neck 

And there's a trigger in your gun 

Jesus say something 

I am someone, I am someone 

I am someone 

Captain and kings 

In the ships hold 

They came to collect 

Silver and gold 

Silver and gold 

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Seen the coming and going 

Seen them captains and the kings 

See them navy blue uniforms 

See them bright and shiny things 

Bright shiny things 

The temperature is rising 

The fever white hot 

Mister, I ain't got nothing 

But it's more than you got 

Chains no longer bind me 

Not the shackles at my feet 

Outside are the prisoners 

Inside the free 

Set them free 

Set them free 

A prize fighter in a corner is told 

Hit where it hurts 

Silver and gold 

Silver and gold 

Yep, silver and gold 

This song was written in a hotel room in New York city 

'Round about the time a friend or ours, little Steven, 

Was putting together a record of artists against apartheid 

This is a song written about a man 

In a shanty town outside of Johannesburg 

A man who's sick of looking down 

The barrel of white South Africa 

A man who is at the point 

Where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor 

A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west 

While they argue and while they fail to support a man 

Like bishop Tutu and his request for economic sanctions 

Against South Africa 

Am I buggin' you, I don't mean to bug ya 

Okay Edge, play the blues