#INDREAMSBEGINRESPONSIBILITIES
#U2 #Acrobat #AchtungBaby #1990

From the album "Achtung Baby".

Don't believe what you hear
Don't believe what you see
If you just close your eyes
You can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl
You had fire in your soul
What happened your face of melting in snow?
Now it looks like this
And you can swallow
Or you can spit
You can throw it up
Or choke on it
And you can dream
So dream out loud
You know that your time is coming 'round
So don't let the bastards grind you down

No, nothing makes sense
Nothing seems to fit
I know you'd hit out
If you only knew who to hit
And I'd join the movement
If there was one I could believe in
Yeah I'd break bread and wine
If there was a church I could receive in
'Cause I need it now

To take the cup
To fill it up
To drink it slow
I can't let you go
I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And don't let the bastards grind you down

Oh, it hurts baby
What are we going to do? Now it's all been said
No new ideas in the house and every book has been read

And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And you can find
Your own way out
And you can build
And I can will
And you can call
I can't wait until
You can stash
And you can seize
In dreams begin
Responsibilities
And I can love
And I can love
And I know that the tide is turning 'round
So don't let the bastards grind you down

....
the band's autobiography, U2 by U2, Bono explains this "is a song about your own spleen, your own hypocrisy, your own ability to change shape and take on the colors of whatever environment you're in, like a chameleon. 'I must be an acrobat, to talk like this and act like that.'"

"In amongst the dark romance, 'Acrobat' has a bit of venom about it," says U2 guitarist The Edge. "It's in the bitter, John Lennon tradition of 'Working Class Hero,' slightly snarling and cynical."

This is dedicated to Delmore Schwartz, an author known for the 1937 short story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities." Bono was reading a book of Schwartz's stories and poems while writing the song. He told NME the book "was on my mind when I was writing the words... It's hard to wrap the book up in a few lines, but Delmore Schwartz is kind of a formalist... I'm the opposite. I'm in the mud as a writer, so I could do with a bit of [Schwartz], and that's why I enjoy him."

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