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Zooropa...vorsprung durch technik (a step ahead through technology)
Zooropa...be all that you can be
Be a winner
Eat to get slimmer

Zooropa...a bluer kind of white
Zooropa...it could be yours tonight
We're mild and green
And squeaky clean

Zooropa...better by design
Zooropa...fly the friendly skies
Through appliance of science
We've got that ring of confidence

And I have no compass
And I have no map
And I have no reasons
No reasons to get back

And I have no religion
And I don't know what's what
And I don't know the limit
The limit of what we've got

Don't worry baby, it'll be alright
You got the right shoes
To get you through the night
It's cold outside, but brightly lit
Skip the subway
Let's go to the overground
Get your head out of the mud baby
Put flowers in the mud baby
Overground

No particular place names
No particular song
I've been hiding
What am I hiding from

Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright
Uncertainty can be a guiding light
I hear voices, ridiculous voices
Out in the slipstream
Let's go, let's go overground
Take your head out of the mud baby

She's gonna dream up
The world she wants to live in
She's gonna dream out loud
She's gonna dream out loud
Dream out loud



Lyrics submitted by jt

Track duration: 04:58

"Zooropa" as written by Dave Evans Adam Clayton

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:I feel this song and indeed album is about new love found while in a less than perfect marriage and some of the interactions/conversations that go with it. This song charts temptation, the hollow shell of conformance (obvious Marketing slogans), and finally the liberating feeling of taking his lover not his wife out of shadows (skip the subway, lets go to the overground). No compass, no map; he's telling his lover he doesn't have a plan but that's ok. Uncertainty... His new lover does not want to be hidden but wants him - he's asking her to Dream out loud.
    Flag Stevieseeon May 20, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:Where the Streets have no Name and Zooropa have the same sweeping cinematic feel. The long intro in both songs, the guitar arpeggios and the hypnotic sound make the two songs a bit similar.

    Zooropa was written in aftermath of the fallen wall 1989, the iron curtain was no longer. We had no compass, no sense of direction. This song tries to describe that uncertainty,both personally and interpersonally. But there can be a strength in the uncertainty, a guiding light, a faith that carry you a long when you´re not able to.

    The song has a great spirit and an inner strength. I get a positive vibe when listen to Zoooropa. We can go overground and dream out loud. That´s sound pretty optimistic to me. It´s our world and we have the opportunity to make it work. Zooropa is a beautiful dream,
    Flag HankSayson February 04, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:The opening part of this song is a gradual but steady arrival of an incoming splurge of overdose, the unending noise, which may represent the overdose of consumerism and the non stop chatter of voices that are trying to sell something to someone or just media overdose.
    The second part of the song hits on the punch lines from adverts that have become so interwoven into to life so much so that a song could be constructed with them ..(as demonstrated very cleverly here!!)

    I think this song third part is about uncertainty in the direction the band itself is going, no compass no map no reasons to go back to the old ways of making music... no idea of where it will go or if it will go anywhere (limits to what we got?) this follows with reassurances that its going to be ok, with a new direction no longer in the underground but well above it in the mainstream.. He points out that songs don't always have to be about something deep (no particular places) and says that they have been keeping away from that angle up to now, and wonders why. Uncertainty is what will make it great, the critics(the voices) are ridiculous.. dream out loud is what the band should do.
    Flag PADDYWHACKon October 15, 2009   Link
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    General Comment: When I hear this song it reminds me of feeling high, It gives me a smooth cool vibe. so CAN U FEEL IT CAN U FUCKN FEEL IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Flag unchainedmelody8717on September 23, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:My favorite phrase of the song is "Through appliance of science
    We've got that ring of confidence" I think it refers to humans' arrogance, thinking that, through technology alone, we can overcome human frailties. For example, some people kid themselves by thinking, "as long as I have my prozac and cellphone and GPS, I can handle this life of working in a fast-paced, high-stress environment and still be a great parent and have a great family." Sooner or later people not taking care of themselves catches up with them and they have to humbly respect that we all have limitations and need each other.

    My second favorite phrase is "I've been hiding
    What am I hiding from?" For me it means that I have had conflict throughout my life because the person the TV and culture tell me to be is not who I want to be. Finally, he realizes he is the master of his own life and has only been fearing fear itself.
    Flag cdwritemeon February 13, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:My favorite phrase of the song is "Through appliance of science
    We've got that ring of confidence" I think it refers to humans' arrogance, thinking that, through technology alone, we can overcome human frailties. For example, some people kid themselves by thinking, "as long as I have my prozac and cellphone and GPS, I can handle this life of working in a fast-paced, high-stress environment and still be a great parent and have a great family." Sooner or later people not taking care of themselves catches up with them and they have to humbly respect that we all have limitations and need each other.

    My second favorite phrase is "I've been hiding
    What am I hiding from?" For me it means that I have had conflict throughout my life because the person the TV and culture tell me to be is not who I want to be. Finally, he realizes he is the master of his own life and has only been fearing fear itself.
    Flag cdwritemeon February 13, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:The first part of the song is a collection of advertising slogans telling us how to live.

    The second part, this person is lost and has no guidance. ("And I have no compass, And I have no map) He is confused and has no idea what to do with himself.

    He tells someone else what all the commercialism is doing and they are possibly ignoring what is going on. ("Get your head out of the mud baby")

    He goes along with the current trends ("I'm in the slipstream") and go overground with everyone else.
    Flag shakermaker123on October 01, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:As previously mentioned by others this song is about living in a commercialistic society, where empty slogans have replaced the firmer constants that used to bind society together.

    I would disagree that the end is optimistic though. Can uncertainty really be a guiding light, or is that promise as false as your washing powder delivering "a bluer kind of white"?

    Can we really just "dream up the world we want to live in"? Or should there be something on which our world is based?

    And, if we dream it out loud aren't we just adding to those "ridiculous voices" that he is hearing everywhere.

    At the end I think he is saying that we shouldn't be picking our own realities, taking a little from here and a little from there and building our own truths, but that we should be searching for something deeper to base our lives on.
    Flagged Elvish Magion March 07, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i love this song, but it's easily the strangest one i own. yeah, thnx StolenBriefcase, had no idea that was wat it was about!

    but it makes sense to me now. the beginning is highlighting our empty commercial culture, then the next part is talking about how lost this world makes him feel. the last part is optimistic, i think, talking about how everything will be okay, and saying there still is beauty in the world.

    UNCERTAINTY CAN BE A GUIDING LIGHT
    (i love that line so much)
    Flag mieolhcon March 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:thanks stolen briefcase- i knew they were slogans for products but didnt know what. love this song. !!! ooooh and the album
    Flag charlotte474on January 07, 2007   Link

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