“We were going to Berlin,” Bono recalls. “We were all in the back of the van in our sleeping bags and we had to travel through the corridor between East and West Germany. We were stopped by this border guard. The song was just a little portrait of him. He was our age, with short hair in a uniform and his life was pretty grim and he was seeing these guys in a rock n’ roll band passing through. I had a feeling he realized how much we had in common…”
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Stranger
Stranger in a strange land
He looked at me like I
Was the one who should run
We asked him to smile for a photograph
Waited a while to see if we could
Make him laugh
A soldier asked for a cigarette
His smiling face I can’t forget
He looked like you across the street
But that’s a long way here
And I wish you were here
And I wish you were here
Stranger
A stranger in a strange land
He look at me like I
Was the one who should run
I watched as he watched us
Get back on the bus
I watched the way it was
The way it was when he was with us
And I really don’t mind
Sleeping on the floor
But I couldn’t sleep after what I saw
I wrote this letter to tell you
The way I feel
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here
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