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The Adversary

 This song is heard as Claire rides the train in pursuit of Sam.

Crime and the City Solution also contributed the song Six Bells Chime to the soundtrack of Wings of Desire.

Lyrics: The Adversary performed by Crime and the City Solution
written by Adams, Bonney, Haas, Haacke, Harvey, Stern
published by Trans Glide Music BMI
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You see me in a foreign face
In ships that sink without trace
In your father's doubt
Will he praise or shout?
Behind the burning cross
The grudge, the imagined loss

When you run to me, run to me, run to me

You try to fly, but you cannot fly
You try to hide, but Ižm by your side
You run from me, run from me, run from me
I am the Adversary
I am the Adversary
I am the Adversary
I am your foe, I go when you go

Between ideals and fact
Between the thought and the act
You sink without trace
Grow to hate your face
Release(?) all that you own
To see in a shadow by throne(?)

Will you run to me, run to me, run to me

You try to fly, but you cannot fly
You try to hide, but Ižm by your side
You try to run from me, run from me, run from me
I am the Adversary
I am the Adversary
I am the Adversary
I am your foe, I go when you go

You see me behind every door
Need not look for me in a ----(?)
To her Ižm just an unknown
To her I am unknown
On your shoulder her hand lightly rests
As she lets fall her soft summer dress
Without self-consciousness, self-loathing, or conceit
Without intention to triumphs, admit, or defeat
She moves in her own chosen way
My invisible hands are not ----(?)
To her Ižm just an unknown
To her I am unknown
From the cold snow into the warm home
To her Ižm just an unknown
To her I am unknown

Run from me, run from me, run from me
Run from me, run from me, run from me

I am your foe, I go where you go (Repeat to end)
Run from me, run from me, run from me (Repeat to end)

(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World

 This song is heard as Claire finds Sam in the Casino of the hotel in Tokyo. He says, "Weren't you the angel in Lisbon?"

Nick Cave has at least one song each on the soundtracks of three consecutive Wenders films:

  1. From Her to Eternity from Wings of Desire in 1987
  2. (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World from Until the End of the World in 1991
  3. Cassiel's Song & Faraway, So Close! from Faraway, So Close in 1993
Curiously, on the UTEOTW and FSC soundtracks, his songs carried the title along with U2 sons on the albums (i.e Until the End of the World and Stay (Faraway, So Close!)).

In addition to this song, Nick Cave also makes a brief, wordless cameo in Until the End of the World as a sleeping man named, simply enough, Nick.

Breakin the Rules

 This song closes the film and plays over the first half of the ending credits. It's a beautiful song and can be found on Robbie Robertson's 1992 album, Storyville, which is well worth the purchase. My alternate pick for the ending music would be the track "Hymn of the Big Wheel" off of Massive Attack's 1991 debut album, Blue Lines.

Blood of Eden

 This song is heard during the scene in which Sam and Claire crash land their plane in the Australian outback after the nuclear satellite explosion. The version of the song heard in the film is not on the film's soundtrack, and is not on Peter Gabriel's 1992 Us album. It can be heard on the B side of the UK single of Blood of Eden, which has the album version of the song, a nice remix of Mercy Street by William Orbit, and the version of Blood of Eden as heard in UTEOTW . The easy way to tell the difference between the two versions of the song is that the album version has Sinead O'Connor on backup vocals and the film version does not.

Move with Me

 The full version of this song (as opposed to the Dub version) is available on Neneh Cherry's 1992 Homebrew album and is heard in the film itself, but not on the soundtrack album. It's clear that this song, as most of them were, was written and recorded for the film in particular. At one point she sings:
Can I keep you next to me/till the end of the world
Some of the other lyrics in the song seem especially companionable to Claire's "journey of self":
I'm washing thru the whole
Saw thru the one I fell
I plunge into myself
Now I'm the story that I tell
The last line above, Now I'm the story that I tell, rings especially true in the film's context. Gene's words to her after she asks what next about the characters in his book are "That's up to you." Gene, and therefore the film itself, leaves Claire to own her life and finally come into her own. She is no longer the subject of a will other than her own.

Move with Me (Dub)

 This is a watered down remix of a song from Neneh Cherry's 1992 album, Homebrew. The remix version is on the soundtrack album, while the full version actually appears in the film.

Sax and Violins

 This is a watered down remix of a song from Neneh Cherry's 1992 album, Homebrew. The remix version is on the soundtrack album, while the full version actually appears in the film.