The Song I'm Loving Today

Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (U2)

This song came off U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. That album is, I daresay, almost - but not quite - as good as Joshua Tree (1987); I'm preempting T by thanking Daniel Lanois for that. Anyway, it's one of those albums I listen to all the way through, with no need to skip songs or look for particular ones, because they're all good. I don't even know what they're all titled, because I just listen straight through with no interruption.

Much like Bruce Springsteen, I could list a million (okay, not a million, but dozens of) U2 songs that are all equally as wonderful as "Stuck In A Moment." I picked this one because, well, because it's my blog, and I get to pick the one I'm loving today. If this whets your appetite for some more U2 videos, you can use this website, or go for the YouTube classic.

The song title links to a studio recording of the song, which includes lyrics; that's the melody that I know and love, but just a series of still shots that someone put together to go along with the song. The video below is from a concert they did in Boston. It's not quite the rhythm I'm used to, but it does have that...you know, that thing that live music has, that draws you in.

I used to listen to this song in college, on my - wait for it - Discman (!), whenever I was having a bad day. Especially at the gym, I would put it on repeat and listen to it over and over. It's awesome for bad days. (As is the Daniel Powter song "Bad Day," which I was talking to J about the other day.) I'd like to give a special shout-out to E here, who likes to remind me that "this too shall pass."



I am not afraid of anything in this world,
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard.
I'm just tryin' to find a decent melody,
A song that I can sing
In my own company.

I never thought you were a fool,
But darlin' look at you, oh.
You gotta stand up straight,
Carry your own weight,
These tears are going nowhere, baby.

You've got to get yourself together,
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it.
Don't say that later will be better,
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it.

I will not forsake the colors that you bring,
The nights you filled with fireworks, they
They left you with nothing.
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me,
I listen through your ears,
Through your eyes I can see.

You are such a fool
To worry like you do, oh.
I know it's tough,
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now, my oh my.

You've got to get yourself together,
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it.
Oh love, look at you know,
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it.

I was unconscious, half asleep,
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep.
I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall,
It's a long way down to nothing at all, oh.

You've got to get yourself together,
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it.
Don't say that later will be better,
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it.

And if the night runs over,
And if the day won't last,
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass;
And if the night runs over,
And if the day won't last,
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass,
It's just a moment, this time will pass.