iris hold me close

U2

The star
That gives us light
Has been gone for a while
But it s not an illusion
The ache
In my heart
Is so much a part of who I am
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years to get here
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years, a thousand years

Hold me close, hold me close and don t let me go
Hold me close
Like I m someone that you might know
Hold me close
The darkness just lets us see Who we are
I ve got your life inside of me

Iris? Iris?

Once we are born, we begin to forget
The very reason we came
But you
I m sure I ve met
Long before the night the stars went out
We re meeting up again

Hold me close, hold me close and don t let me go
Hold me close like I m someone
That you might know
Hold me close
The darkness just lets us see Who we are
I ve got your life inside of me

Iris? Iris?

The stars are bright but do they know
The universe is beautiful but cold

You took me by the hand
I thought that I was leading you
But it was you who made me your man
Machine
I dream
Where you are
Iris standing in the hall
She tells me I can do it all
Iris wakes to my nightmares
Don t fear the world it isn t there

Iris playing on the strand
She buries the boy beneath the sand
Iris says that I will be the death of her
It was not me

Iris? Iris?

She said: free yourself, to be yourself
If only you could see yourself
Free yourself, to be yourself
If only you could see?