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IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

Lyrics: Bono and The Edge. Music: U2.

Nobody else here, baby
No-one here to blame
No-one to point the finger
It's just you, and me, and the rain

Nobody made you do it
No-one put words in your mouth
No-one here takin' orders when love took a train headed south
It's the blind... leading the blonde
It's the stuff the stuff of country songs

HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
AND IF GOD WILL SEND A SIGN
AND IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
Would everything be alright?

God has got his phone off the hook babe would he even pick up if he could?
It's been a while since we saw that child hangin' round this neighborhood
See His mother dealin' in a doorway, see Father Christmas with a beggin' bowl
Jesus' sister's eyes are a blister THE HIGH STREET NEVER LOOKED SO LOW

It's the blind... leading the blonde
It's the cops collecting for the cons
So where is the hope, and where is the faith, and the love
What's that you say to me? Does love
Light up your Christmas tree?
The next minute, you're blowin' a fuse
And the Cartoon Network turns into the news

HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
AND IF GOD WOULD SEND A SIGN
AND IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
WOULD EVERYTHING BE ALRIGHT?
WHERE DO WE GO?

Jesus never let me down, you know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business, now it's hard to get in the door

It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs
But I guess it's something to go on
IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
Sure could use them here right now
AND IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
(Scat singing, with "WHERE DO WE GO" layered over)

Produced by Flood and Howie B. Recorded by Mark "Spike" Stent and Howie B. Assisted by Rob Kirwan and Conal Markey. Mixed by Howie B. Assisted by Conal Markey. Copyright Polygram International Music. (5:22)

SINGLES TRACK LISTING

1: If God Will Send His Angels (Single Version)
2: Slow Dancing (Featuring Willie Nelson)
3: Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad
4: Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live From Sarajevo)

Jewel case/slimline case. 1997.

PART 2

If God Will Send His Angels Pt. 2 (Click for larger image)

1: If God Will Send His Angels (Single Version)
2: Mofo (Romin Mix)

Cardboard sleeve. 1997. Note that the MOFO REMIXES CD is often considered "If God Will Send His Angels Part 2", as it contains the Grand Jury Mix of said song.

REMIXES

Grand Jury Mix (Remix and additional production by Gerald Baillergeau AKA Big Yam and Victor Merritt AKA Vino for Grand Jury Productions Inc.)Found on the MOFO REMIXES single, Track 3. (5:40)
Single Version (Same production as album version; though it is also mixed by Steve Osborne and Mark "Spike" Stent as well as Howie B, and mix-assisted by Ben Hillier as well as Conal Markey.) This version is also found on the CITY OF ANGELS soundtrack (Track 1). (4:32)

VIDEO

Director: Phil Joanou. Video concept: Bono and company sing towards the viewer in two parallel horizontally-split frames which slide past each other. Cinematography is generally very glittery and sparkling.
Chris' Personal Rating: ***. Yeah, it's pretty, but there's just no substance. Give us sweeping metaphor! Give us haunting imagery! Or at the very least, give us Bono in a cop suit!