"Miami" video

 

Weather 'round here choppin' and changin'
Surgery in the air
Print shirts and southern accents
Cigars and big hair.

We got the wheels, petrol's cheap
We only went there for a week
Got the sun, got the sand
Got the batteries and the handicam.

Her eyes all swimming pool blue
Dumb-bells on the diving board
Baby's always attracted to
The things she's afraid of.

Big girl with a sweet tooth watches
Skinny girl in the photo shoot.
Freshmen, squeaky-clean she tastes of chlorine.
Miami, my mammy.

Love the movies, babe
Love to walk through movie sets
Get to shoot someone in the foot
Get to smoke some cigarettes.

No big deal, we know the score
Just back from the video store.
Got the car and the car chase.
What's he got inside that case?
I want a close-up of that face.
Here comes the car chase.

I bought two new suits
Miami
Pink and blue
Miami
I took a picture of you
My mammy
Getting hot in a photo booth
Miami.

I said you looked like a madonna.
You said maybe.
You said I wanna have your baby, baby.
We could make something beautiful
Something that wouldn't be a problem
We could make something beautiful
Something that wouldn't be a problem
Least not in Miami.

You know, some places are like your auntie
But there's no place like Miami
My mammy
Miami
My mammy.

Composed by U2 / lyrics by Bono and The Edge


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About "Miami"

From the original U2 Album "Pop" (03 March 1997)

"Miami" is the eighth track from U2's 1997 album, Pop. Featuring a reversed drum beat and an unsettling sonic atmosphere, "Miami" is the most non-traditional song they have yet produced, along with "Mofo."

When it was played live on the PopMart Tour, lead singer Bono donned a carnival hawker's costume outfit and guitarist The Edge added an extra guitar part to the chorus of "Miami". Pictures of now-dead celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe, were flashed on the giant screen behind the band while they played this song. Invariably, Bono picked a female member of the audience to come on stage and dance with him towards the song's end which then led into their next number, "Bullet the Blue Sky."

In 2005, Q magazine included the song "Miami" in a list of "Ten Terrible Records by Great Artists." [From Wikipedia]

 

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