[ti:Silver And Gold] [ar:U2] [al:Rattle And Hum] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Silver And Gold (Live - Rattle & Hum Version) - U2 [00:07.12]Written by:Bono/The Edge/Adam Clayton/Larry Mullen, Jr. [00:14.25]In the sh*t house a shotgun [00:17.87]Praying hands hold me down [00:22.18]Only the hunter was hunted [00:25.34]In this tin can town [00:29.22]Tin can town [00:34.26]No stars in the black night [00:38.65]Looks like the sky fell down [00:42.63]No sun in the daylight [00:45.56]Looks like it's chained to the ground [00:49.36]Chained to the ground [00:50.62]The warden said [00:52.12]The exit is sold [00:53.76]If you want a way out [00:57.42]Silver and gold [01:14.06]Broken back to the ceiling [01:18.03]Broken nose to the floor [01:21.94]I scream at the silence it's crawling [01:25.94]It crawls under the door [01:29.76]There's a rope around my neck [01:32.03]And there's a trigger in your gun [01:37.47]Jesus say something [01:41.23]I am someone I am someone [01:47.10]I am someone [01:52.87]Captain and Kings [01:54.40]In the ships hold [01:56.23]They came to collect [01:59.67]Silver and gold [02:03.53]Silver and gold [02:24.04]Seen the coming and going [02:27.90]Seen them Captains and the Kings [02:31.74]See them navy blue uniforms [02:34.69]See them bright and shiny things [02:37.57]Bright shiny things [02:39.89]Yeah [02:47.01]The temperature is rising [02:51.19]The fever white hot [02:54.72]Mister I ain't got nothing [02:57.36]But it's more than you got [03:02.38]Chains no longer bind me [03:06.16]Not the shackles at my feet [03:10.05]Outside are the prisoners [03:13.89]Inside the free [03:16.17]Set them free [03:20.20]Set them free [03:25.34]A prize fighter in a corner is told [03:28.96]Hit where it hurts [03:31.99]Silver and gold [03:35.89]Silver and gold [03:41.16]Yeah [03:43.44]Silver and gold [03:48.17]This song was written in a hotel room in New York city [03:54.14]Round about the time a friend or ours little steven [03:57.14]Was putting together a record of artists against apartheid [04:08.21]This is a song written about a man in a shanty town [04:14.20]Outside of Johannesburg [04:18.73]A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa [04:25.21]A man who is at the point [04:26.60]Where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor [04:33.48]A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while they argue [04:40.70]And while they fail to support [04:41.89]A man like bishop tutu and his request for economic sanctions [04:47.72]Against South Africa [04:51.05]Am I buggin' you I don't mean to bug ya [04:56.25]Okay edge play the blues