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LIFT ME UP

I don't need your answered prayers
Or the chains your lover wears
I don't need your rings of gold
Or the secrets that you hold

Lift me up, darling
Lift me up and I'll fall with you lift me up
Let your love lift me up

I don't need your sacred vow
Or the promise tomorrow brings
Veiled behind the morning clouds*
I'll take the fate the daylight brings**

Lift me up, darling
Lift me up and I'll fall with you lift me up
Let your love lift me up

When the morning bright
Lifts away this night
In the light above***
We will find our love, we will find our love

Your skin, your hand upon my neck
This skin, your fingers on my skin
This kiss, this heartbeat, this breath
This heart, this heart, this wilderness

Lift me up, darling
Lift me up and I'll fall with you lift me up
Let your love lift me up
Lift me up, darling
Lift me up and I'll fall with you lift me up
Let your love lift me up
hooooo...

This 1999 song was written by Bruce for John Sayles' film Limbo.

In the Limbo booklet, some lyrics lines were different from the ones on The Essential booklet:
* was changed to: "There behind the morning clouds"
** was changed to: "I'll take the faith the daylight brings"
*** was changed to: "And the light above"
The Essential booklet seems to have the correct lyrics!

Available on:

  1. The Essential (disc 3- track 7)
  2. The Soundtrack of the motion picture: Limbo - 1999 (track 1)

Liner notes by Bruce Springsteen in the The Essential booklet:

Director John Sayles called and said he was looking for a song to end his film "Limbo." The picture ends with a small plane approaching an island his main characters were stranded on. I tried to pick up the hum pf the plane's engine and write something ethereal using the falsetto voice I'd developed in the '90s.

Liner notes from the Limbo soundtrack booklet:

Bruce Springsteen has written a haunting new song for the final credits. In the prayer-like LIFT ME UP, the singer is asking for nothing more and promising nothing less than to take the risk of unconditional love.

-John Sayles