“The Glass is cut,The Bottle run dry.Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night”

—  Bono

"Red Hill Mining Town"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: The Glass is cut, The Bottle run dry. Our love runs cold in the caverns of the night

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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

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