Miss Sarajevo Lyrics

Performed by U2

Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day

Is there a time for kohl and lipstick
A time for curling hair
Is there a time for high street shopping
To find the right dress to wear

Here she comes
Heads turn around
Here she comes
To take her crown

Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell

Is there a time for first communion
A time for East Seventeen
Is there a time to turn to Mecca
Is there time to be a beauty queen

Here she comes
Beauty plays the clown
Here she comes
Surreal in her crown

Dici che il fiume
Trova la via al mare
E come il fiume
Giungerai a me
Oltre i confini
E le terre assetate
Dici che come il fiume
Come il fiume...
L'amore giungerà
L'amore...
E non so più pregare
E nell'amore non so più sperare
E quell'amore non so più aspettare

[Translation of the above]
You say that the river
finds the way to the sea
and like the river
you will come to me
beyond the borders
and the dry lands
You say that like a river
like a river...
the love will come
the love...
And i don't know how to pray anymore
and in love i don't know how to hope anymore
and for that love i don't know how to wait anymore

[End of Translation]

Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for Christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
And the night is set to freeze

O lijepa, o draga, o slatka slobodo,
[dar u kom sva blaga višnji nam bog je do...]

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Miss Sarajevo | Reviewer: Mozart | 9/21/11

I often listen to this wonderful song around Christmas time. A time of year that is full of joy and hope in all parts of the world. The beauty of the world was found in the birth of Christ who came in a time when the world was sad and hopeless. A bright star gemed the black sky to signal in the Savior.
Hope and beauty in harmony.
This song is about there being a time to come.
There's a time for war just as there is a time for peace.
There's a time for ugliness and then a time for beauty.

"You say that the river
finds the way to the sea
and like the river
you will come to me
beyond the borders
and the dry lands
You say that like a river
like a river...
the love will come
the love...

Beauty (Christ)is returning:
We cannot wait any longer.
The world groans for His Coming.
To set us free.

"And i don't know how to pray anymore
and in love i don't know how to hope anymore
and for that love i don't know how to wait anymore"

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Hear us | Reviewer: Mia | 3/13/10

Please, do not fight over such things. I was born in Sarajevo in 1993, after war began and i still live here. I'm lucky not to remember those horrible things, but our parents do. Truth is that they didn't had that much weapon, but they took all the Former Yugoslavian weapon.
We are healing, at least on the out side, younger ones live like it never happened. And it is truth they're (we're) still searching for our beloved ones

And back to the lyrics, they are beautiful, so unobtrusive and simple.
Thank you U2 and Luciano (rip)

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sad or truth | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/28/10

@ Antonio
maybe u saw a man but i was there, u just told what u watched on TV, yea there was a genocide but on such proportion as You told it? Serbia don't have such military force as u described. pls comment lyrics don't spread lies. or at least try to find truth what actually happened there

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Sad tale... :( | Reviewer: Antonio | 1/7/10

I''ve once had a chance to see a man who was in Sarajevo during serbian attack.They first cam with several russian MIG-s and after that with ground forces... Sarayevo survived one of the largest sieges in history 1 artillery weapon every 30 meters
(When russians siged berlin in WW2 (1945)there wwas 1 artillery weapon every 50 meters)And the worst was genocides,serbians killed over 100 000 innocent bosnians (Srebrenica was site of worst genocide)... They are STILL finding remains of killed people and trying to identify them..
DON'T LET THIS WAR TO BE FORGOTTEN!!!

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pikica | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/14/09

I think the most importent is the cous, what they were trying to acomplite with song and lyrics,thet is : help them!!! we were lucky enough to evoid the woor, but they didnt. i cant help askin my self, how meny of those girls are still alive.did they survive the wor?! oh,god, dont let thet hepen ever agen!god luck,Bosnia!
Gretings from Nataša,Slovenia

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Miss break my heart | Reviewer: bryan donath | 8/29/09

tells a great story about the free world vs. I'm not sure? The leftovers from the communist/socialist states and aitheist states show that the value of life and liberty are non-value added. The US is now headed towards a state of similar anarchy, its financial institutions, state govts are in a state of bankruptcy due to social edicts that were unstainable, with rich social elitesl like Hollywood stars that wont giveaway their riches but expect the enteprenaues to give away thiers.

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great song | Reviewer: Dean | 2/1/09

this is such a great piece of music, Pavarotti RIP.

I was lucky enough to have been in Sarajevo once(summer of 2007) and I must say that the city and the whole country are evolving rapidly from the ashes of war and suffering they had experienced, although the signs of battles are still visible almost anywhere. not to mention the people who are so warm and nicer than anywhere else in the world. I will definetely be back again.

with love, from Slovenia

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sarajevo...impossible not to cry | Reviewer: crazytears | 9/20/08

undoubtly a powerful song. especially for mr. Pavarotti's performance. you may not know what he is saying (less you are italian or know italian), but just his voice comes in and...well it is indescribable all the emotions...great song, despite the fact i am not a u2 fan...

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Awesome Performance | Reviewer: Hakan | 2/8/08

This song brings tears to your eyes if learn more about the story of Sarajevo in those years..A surreal girl who's looking for freedom to get on with her life, a typical and normal life..(high street shopping, curling hair, kiss and tell) Pavarotti's part is simply breath-taking, this is the only song I'm in love which combines an aria with a ballad perfectly..Full of emotion..

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Miss Sarajevo "Is there a time". | Reviewer: Harry Watts | 1/12/08

The greatest loss to the whole world was the sad passing of the Master,Luciano Pavarotti.
U2 combined with Luciano, created a song so passionate, that awakens the emotions to the very height of overwhelming feelings within our flawed society, to allow such devestation in this day and age for all the Sarajevo's around the world, man and his greed has not learned to value life, love & give music to the world from Lennon to U2 & PAVAROTTI, We still cannot feed the world, give dignity to each and every human being, without killing, starvation & racism.
Bono & Luciano thankyou. Harry.

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