Cedarwood Road

10 Cedarwood Road is the address of Bono’s childhood home in Dublin. For the U2 song Cedarwood Road, Bono looked back to his life there as a teenager, when skinhead culture seeped into his neighborhood via the Seven Towers housing projects that were built around that time. A beautiful podcast about this song can be found here.

[Verse 1] I was running down the road The fear was all I knew I was looking for a soul that’s real Then I ran into you And that cherry blossom tree Was a gateway to the sun And friendship, once it’s won It’s won... it’s won [Chorus] Northside just across the river to the Southside That’s a long way here All the green and all the gold The hurt you hide, the joy you hold The foolish pride that gets you out the door Up on Cedarwood, Cedarwood Road [Verse 2] Sleepwalking down the road Not waking from these dreams ‘Cause it’s never dead, it’s still my head It was a warzone in my teens I’m still standing on that street Still need an enemy The worst ones I can’t see You can... you can [Chorus] Northside just across the river from the Southside That’s a long way here All the green and all the gold The hurt you hide and the joy you hold The foolish pride that sends you back for more Up on Cedarwood, Cedarwood Road [Bridge] If the door is open it isn’t theft You can’t return to where you’ve never left Blossoms falling from a tree, they cover you and cover me Symbols clashing, Bibles smashing Paint the world you need to see Sometimes fear is the only place that we can call our home Cedarwood Road [Outro] And a heart that is broken Is a heart that is open, open, open