“sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth”
From the 1989 film “Rattle and Hum”
From wikipedia:
“Running to Stand Still” is the fifth track from U2′s 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It is a soft, slow, piano-based song about a heroin-addicted woman from the Ballymun Seven Towers area of Dublin, shown in the lyric “I see seven towers/But I only see one way out.” The woman’s addiction is reflected in lines such as “She runs through the streets/With her eyes painted red” and “She will suffer the needle chill.” Bono’s lyrics evoke helplessness and frustration: “You’ve got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice.”
I’ve probably listened to this song 5000 times over the course of my life.
RUNNING TO STAND STILL
And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lyin’ still.
Said I gotta do something
About where we’re goin’.
Step on a fast train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night.
Singing ah, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.
Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth.
I see seven towers, but I only see one way out.
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice.
You know I took the poison, from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here, singing
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.
She walks through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain.
In through a doorway
She brings me white golden pearls
Stolen from the sea.
She is ragin’
She is ragin’
And the storm blows up in her eyes.
She will suffer the needle chill
She’s running to stand still.
