| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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'Fear, paranoia, these are the type of things we wanted from 'Vertigo'. The album ends in quite an ecstatic place and, so we wanted to start off with a little bit of electric shock treatment. It's a club maybe, and you're supposed to be having the time of your life, but you want to kill yourself (laughs)….it's a light little ditty. These are nervous times, they really are, you turn on the news, you think 'Wow, who's next? My brother, my sister, my uncle, my aunt …nervous times.' 'It's a dizzy feeling, vertigo, a sort of sick feeling, when you get up to the top of something and there's only one way to go - that's not a dictionary definition, that's mine. And in my head I create a club, called Vertigo, with all these people in it, and the music is just not the music you want to hear, the people are not the people you want to be with. And then you just see somebody, she's got a cross round her neck, and you kind of focus on it because you can't focus on anything else, and you find a little, tiny, fragment of salvation there.' --Bono |
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| U2 – Yahweh Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| "No one can own Jerusalem, but everybody wants to put flags on it"--Bono | |
| U2 – Crumbs From Your Table Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song, in part, is an attack against The Church, because "it was slow to respond to the Aids emergency, and very judgmental about people with AIDS" | |
| U2 – Original of the Species Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I could have sworn I read an article stating Bono had written the lyrics with Edge's daughter in mind, but I guess I was wrong. Edge says Bono was inspired originally by a young woman who was about to be a teenager. And Bono says the song is about being comfortable with who you are--that teenagers are often concerned about "eating disorders" and being o.k. with their sexuality. The idea Bono claims is to "be who you are". | |
| U2 – Discothèque Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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A common interpretation is that the "bubblegum" reference refers to what people chew to avoid grinding their teeth from the club-drug, ecstasy (MDMA) . . . I feel "thelastknight"'s interpretation is fairly accurate. This is a song about the irony of pursuing love (whether it be God, truth, something pure or great . . . "looking for the one" or wanting "to be the song") in something as phony and artificial as a dance club environment. Ecstasy may make you feel great while you're taking it, but eventually the effects wear off, and you're left with nothing (or possibly something horrible). While you're on it, you have this wonderful illusion (like experiencing love). But it's all a facade. It's like "looking for love in all the wrong places." |
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| U2 – Miracle Drug Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Aqusnor, I've never met a U2 fan online who hasn't pre-ordered multiple versions of each album. Buy a clue, before casting insults . . . | |
| U2 – Miracle Drug Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Bono: "We all went to the same school and just as we were leaving, a fellow called Christopher Nolan arrived. He had been deprived of oxygen for two hours when he was born, so he was paraplegic. But his mother believed he could understand what was going on and used to teach him at home. Eventually, they discovered a drug that allowed him to one muscle in his neck. So they attached this unicorn device to his forehead and he learned to type. And out of him came all these poems that he'd been storing up in his head. Then he put out a collection called Dam-Burst of Dreams, which won a load of awards and he went off to university and became a genius. All because of a mother's love and a medical breakthrough." --from the Blender article | |
| U2 – Original of the Species Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This is song dedicated by Bono to the Edge's daughter. | |
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