| U2 – Mercy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song has become my favorite u2 song, it sends shivers down my spine every time, bono's vocals sound so free, this is truly one of there best | |
| Coldplay – Crests of Waves Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's "Bitter or sweet" not "But it's all sweet" | |
| Kisschasy – Do Do's and Whoa-oh's Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Great punk voice, awsome song! | |
| Interpol – Next Exit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| sorry i wrote a whole lot more explaing but it never posted, dunno why????? | |
| Interpol – Next Exit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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'So, do this thing with me Instead of tying on a tight one tonight ' |
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| Interpol – Next Exit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song could be about sex in some, i think lines like this are suggestive ' 'So, baby make it with me In preperation for tonight ' ' We've been building up steam Oh, Inginited by this fight ' 'So, do this thing with me Instead of tying on a tight one tonight ' |
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| Oasis – Wonderwall Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Wasn't Wonderwall an independent production company or somthing that John Lenon started | |
| Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I dont think she is wondering why he burnt down the place, she already knew that he was gonna burn it down because she was the one that said he was going to do it. "You said I'm gonna buy this place*, And burn it down, I'm gonna put it six feet underground, You said I'm gonna buy this place, And watch it fall, Stand here beside my baby and the crumbling walls, Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire" I can see what you are saying though, i think maybe he is talking about inspiration of emotion, like, she is standing there beside him watching it burn, some people would watch it burn and laugh ( like in funniest home videos when someone gets hurt and people laugh), some people would watch and cry because its seen as a tragedy, maybe she sits and wonders because she doesnt understand emotion??? Not a very good explanation i know |
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| U2 – One Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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See you keep saying in an interview, i read this lots, where is this interview, where are the quotes, so what if Bono dedicated the song to AIDS, doesnt mean its about it. I am not fooling anyone....man.....and i will argue with you about this, cause your wrong and offering nothing to back up your argument [...] The impish corrosion of songs like "Zoo Station" and "The Fly" is boldly undercut by darker musings such as "Love Is Blindness" and "One," Bono's disenchanted take on the nouveau hippie revival: "'One, man, one world, one love.' I liked the idea of taking that and saying, 'One man, but not the same.'" (from "U2 Finds What It's Looking For" by David Fricke, Rolling Stone, October 01, 1992) Before reacting with the Edge to my list of the 10 best U2 moments on record, Bono had a question of his own. "Is it true that 'One' was played over the radio a lot during the Los Angeles riots?" the singer asked, referring to the most acclaimed song from the Achtung Baby album, and one of the songs on the list. "That's what I heard from some friends," he added, "which is surprising because I never saw the song as something hopeful or comforting. To me, it was a very bitter song." [...] Edge: It was a very pivotal song in the recording of the album -- the first sort of breakthrough in what was an extremely difficult set of sessions in Berlin. I like the lyric a lot because it treads a very fine line between becoming too clear, too jingoistic, but in the end it never does... stays personal. Bono: We spoke about this before. It is a song about coming together, but it's not the old hippie idea of "Let's all live together." It is, in fact, the opposite. It's saying, "We are one, but we're not the same." It's not saying we even want to get along, but that we have to get along together in this world if it is to survive. It's a reminder that we have no choice. (from "U2's Pride (In The Name Of Songs); Achtung, Babies: Bono And Edge Evaluate One Critic's Choices For The Group's 10 Best Recordings, From 'I Will Follow' To 'One'" by Robert Hilburn, Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1993) Recorded in Hansa Studios, formerly a Nazi mess hall, the song came from nowhere. Bono had a couple of middle-eights that fitted together, and it was while fiddling around with these mongrel tunes that the inordinately emotive lyrics of "One" began to seep through. "They just fell out of the sky," says Bono. "A gift from above." This much he knows: the Dalai Lama had asked U2 to participate in a festival called "Oneness." Having sensed the unsavoury whiff of hippiedom, Bono sent back a note saying, "One -- but not the same." Unconsciously, this became his hook. As the melody flowed, he was thinking about untouchable sadness, disharmony and disease and relationships that end too soon. Within half an hour, they had recorded the bare bones of what Noel Gallagher now calls "the greatest song ever written." (from "Gold in the house", GQ Magazine, October 2001) Amazon.co.uk: Another song that seems to have changed meaning -- so much so that it seems to have become an anthem for pretty much everything -- is "One," from Achtung Baby. Bono: Which astounds me. What's great about "One" is that it's not about oneness, it's about difference. That's the trick of that tune. I'm always shocked when a drunk couple come up to me in a club and tell me they want to walk down the aisle to it. It's a song about difference, and it's gnarly. It's a long way from "Up with People." Amazon.co.uk: Can you remember what you thought you were writing about at the time? Bono: There were a couple of things going on, and as usual I meant to resolve them, but the best U2 songs seem to occupy this place of contradictions. I had a lot of things going on in my head at the time, about forgiveness, about father and son angst. I was trying to write a story song I think, and I'm just not good at that. The lyrics came really quickly. The humbling bit about songwriting is that anything above good usually feels like an accident. A lot of U2 songs are first drafts. (from an interview on All That You Can't Leave Behind, Amazon UK) [Edge:] "It was autumn 1990. We were in Berlin, at Hansa Studios where Bowie recorded 'Heroes,' trying to get traction with some new songs. It wasn't going well. Adam and Larry's rather jaundiced view of Bono's and my songwriting ability was becoming more and more evident as our various experiments went nowhere. We were listening to a lot of industrial music, and the sounds we were making were quite intense. "In the midst of all this I go off into another room to put together some ideas for 'The Fly.' I came back with two, neither of which worked where they were meant to, but on Daniel Lanois's suggestion we put them together and Bono was really taken with it. So we all went out into the big recording room -- a huge, eerie ballroom full of ghosts of the war -- and everything fell into place. Bono's melodies and phrases were following, and by the end of the day we basically had everything, the whole form of the song. "Everyone recognized it was a crucial moment in the development of what became 'Achtung Baby' -- ironically it went in a totally different direction from everything we'd been working on. But everyone recognized it was a special piece. It was like we'd caught a glimpse of what the song could be. Then it was about capturing its essence, but also trying to keep our hands off it. Those songs that seem to arrive perfectly formed -- you don't want to mess with them too much. "The lyric was the first in a new, more intimate style. It's two ideas, essentially. On one level it's a bitter, twisted, vitriolic conversation between two people who've been through some nasty, heavy stuff: 'We hurt each other / Then we do it again.' But on another level there's the idea that 'we get to carry each other.' 'Get to' is the key. The original lyric was 'we have to carry each other' and it was never quite right -- it was too fuckin' obvious and platitudinous. But 'get to'… it's like our privilege to carry one another. It puts everything in a different perspective, introduces that idea of grace. "Still, it blows me away when it's played at weddings. I wouldn't have played it at any wedding of mine. But I suppose it's because, despite all the other stuff in there, the power of 'we get to carry each other' overwhelms everything. And the honesty of it helps -- the bare-knuckle telling-it-like-it-is-ness. "I also think it opened up new horizons for U2. It's not a song we would ever try to rewrite. We wouldn't want to go there again. But the small scale of it, the intimacy, has been revisited for various other records and songs. The restraint was something new -- we learned how holding back can be even more powerful than letting go." (from "The 1001 Best Songs Ever" Special Edition, Q Magazine, November 2003 (?)) On the Popmart tour in Mexico City, while the Edge played the intro Bono said, "This one goes out to a mate of ours, a great mate, a great singer, we're sorry, we're sorry, for Michael Hutchence." Misquoting?, your full of it, i think your the one that needs to stop fooling people, and when you make your next post (argument) how about you give some evidence, quotes and sources |
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| U2 – One Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Three versions of this video were shot, the buffalo one, the cross dressing one and the more common one where bono is sitting in a club singing and smoking, while a man and a woman make love in between shots, shot in an artistic manner ofcourse, good use of lighting. I suppose this song is ultimatley about comprimise. Bono: We spoke about this before. It is a song about coming together, but it's not the old hippie idea of "Let's all live together." It is, in fact, the opposite. It's saying, "We are one, but we're not the same." It's not saying we even want to get along, but that we have to get along together in this world if it is to survive. It's a reminder that we have no choice. [edge]"The lyric was the first in a new, more intimate style. It's two ideas, essentially. On one level it's a bitter, twisted, vitriolic conversation between two people who've been through some nasty, heavy stuff: 'We hurt each other / Then we do it again.' But on another level there's the idea that 'we get to carry each other.' 'Get to' is the key. The original lyric was 'we have to carry each other' and it was never quite right -- it was too fuckin' obvious and platitudinous. But 'get to'… it's like our privilege to carry one another. It puts everything in a different perspective, introduces that idea of grace. "Still, it blows me away when it's played at weddings. I wouldn't have played it at any wedding of mine. But I suppose it's because, despite all the other stuff in there, the power of 'we get to carry each other' overwhelms everything. And the honesty of it helps -- the bare-knuckle telling-it-like-it-is-ness. "I also think it opened up new horizons for U2. It's not a song we would ever try to rewrite. We wouldn't want to go there again. But the small scale of it, the intimacy, has been revisited for various other records and songs. The restraint was something new -- we learned how holding back can be even more powerful than letting go." Sorry to those who think this song was directly written about AIDS, but its not, its a song that can be related to in many diffrent ways, listen to it how you like, but if your going to make a post saying its only about aids and everyone else is wrong, go and actually check out what the musicians had to say about the songs meaning. |
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| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| examples??? | |
| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Why does every new album have to be ground breaking??, U2 is always going to sound like U2 despite what they do, be it dance music to R'n'b based. Just because U2 are mainstream doesnt make them sh*t pop, or unorignal, and i honestly wasnt saying everytime u2 release a new album it challenges the way you look at music, i dont want it to be that way, i like to listen to u2 because i can relate to there songs, because they i love there music, and i can relax to it, i dont want music that im going to constantly sit there thinking about so much that i cant relax or enjoy it, and isnt that just what its about, entertainment and enjoyment. | |
| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Ok Viro, why should a truly great band always be fighting for respect???, if they were truly great they wouldnt constatly need to be fighting for respect, they'd always have that respect. U2 25 years on and still rocking with newer sounding material than bands that have emerged in the last five years. | |
| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think they were using Vertigo as a representation of anxiety Anna, its a common thing to do in songs use of representation, and if you actually read the lyric, Bono is referring to Vertigo as a place, a club, where he thinks he should be having this great time, but feels like killing him self, a great feeling of anxiety....try not to take things so literally anymore Anna, maybe you could understand the meanings of songs better then, and your input would actually mean something on a site that is ultimately, really, about, ah, song meaning. Viro, what are you on about, where is your back up for that....honestly, it makes no sense ,middle classes???, what the hell did you pull that one out off, that was just...stupid. |
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| U2 – Crumbs From Your Table Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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For those with the special edition that came with the booklet, if you read the diary entry titled death, it’s like the maze one, opposite the page that says "fear the enemy" Bono talks about Sister Ann and her work in Africa and he also mentions that she has a "great sense of humour". I suppose the title means that, what we see and take for granted or see as very little, such as crumbs from the table or a dollar a day, can mean a lot to others. I like the line, "where you live should not decide weather you live or weather you die", we put so much money into defending a country, to prevent war, yet, we watch as millions in Africa die, who in a way, are fighting a war of there own and have severe lack of medication to fight AIDS. If the same thing was happening over here in Australia, or in England and America, we would have trouble understanding why more isn’t being done, but the fact of the matter is, if something like what there going through over in Africa happened in Australia, England or America, it wouldn’t last as long as it has gone on over there. This can be stopped, the AIDS virus can be stopped, it doesn’t need to be spread, people shouldn’t go hungry and die, while we waste and throw away food. More can be done, and if it can be done, it should be done. magicmanx9, your an ignorant fool......”why in his whole life he's donated $0”…. HAHA, you are so very....very...cough....very...ah…. funny. I mean seriously were you trying to be funny or smart when you made that comment???, I think you should pack your bags up and head back to clown school then, because you obviously missed some lessons. Anyway, I’ll admit im not informed on how much Bono gives to charity (and don’t pretend to know either), but im sure he gives more then you magicmanx9.....ya dolt. |
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| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Nah, i just listened to it, just now, just after reading your post, and its unos, plus it says it on there official website...yes, yes it is. sorry. | |
| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yer, i can kinda see your point there, but i dont want to add to the download of this album and i am moraly against the download of an album on the internet before its release....also, there is no way i need to sample this album before i splurge, i know its gonna rock socks....lots! | |
| Coldplay – Don't Panic Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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After watching the film clip, i actually thought this song had some reference to the environment in some way and its preservation and global warming. I mean if you look at the video, its happy happy la la, and yer, then the globilisation and the oil minning and polution comes in, and there is alot of use of gas and 'energy' in this film clip, and that got me thinking about how the place floods and maybe thats got to do with global warming and rising sea level. maybe also the lyric "bones sinking like stones" could have to do with the end of the past and the destruction we've done to the earth or maybe it is in some way making reference to 'fossil fuels' as in fossils=bones, i know thats a bit lateral, but just a thought. |
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| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I refuse to download this album...... i'll buying the special addition dvd box set | |
| U2 – One Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I remember reading that bono found it quite astounding every time he hears people want to play this at there wedding.....its quite bitter, and i think it pretty much says, were all diffrent, and we all fight, some of us somtimes and some of us all the time, and your always gonna have problems with eachother, but tough luck, just gotta learn to live with it. Accept the diffrences, and try, even though all the odds are against it..........in the sense of a love song ofcourse. | |
| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This songs guitar riff reminds me very much of of "get free" by the vines, similiar i think.... Love the song, true rock n roll |
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