Remarks:
I heard this the other day on Virgin Radio in London. One of my favourite U2 songs – with the same name as one of my favourite Lauryn Hill songs! In 1998 this song went to #63 in the US but was a top-ten hit in the rest of the Anglosphere. It was the B-side of a song I like even better: “Where the Streets Have No Name”.
Bono wrote this song as a birthday present and apology to his wife for having worked on her birthday. Thus the video. It was shot in his native Dublin, Ireland.
With this posting U2 easily qualifies as my favourite rock band.
See also:
- songs: the 1990s
- other “sweet” songs:
Lyrics:
My love, she throws me like a rubber ball
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
But she won’t catch me or break my fall.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
Baby’s got blue skies up ahead
But in this, I’m a raincloud
You know she wants a dry kind of love.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
I’m losin’ you, I’m losin’ you
Ain’t love the sweetest thing?
I wanted to run, but she made me crawl
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
I know I got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her
I guess it’s a blind kind of love.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
I’m losin’ you, I’m losin’ you
Ain’t love the sweetest thing?
Ain’t love the sweetest thing?
Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
You can sew it up, but you still see the tear.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
Baby’s got blue skies up ahead
But in this, I’m a rain-cloud,
Ours is a stormy kind of love.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
This is a good song. Being in London is pretty cool. I would like to go back there again for a second visit.
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Abagond, I’m pretty sure that this some was from the 1980’s not the 1998. I had the some on cassette. U2 was one of my favorite bands back then.
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@ Michelle
Wiki says it was released twice:
“It was originally released as a B-side on the “Where the Streets Have No Name” single in 1987. The song was later re-recorded and re-released as a single in October 1998 for the band’s compilation album The Best of 1980–1990.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetest_Thing
It doesn’t seem to have charted in 1987, but it’s certainly possible you had it on cassette back then.
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