| U2 – Mofo Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the first scant singing just says "bubble popping, sugar dropping rock rock and roll" This song is definitely about his mother, but I still don't know exactly what it means except for the part "mother, am I still your son..." which are pretty obvious. I think who says that in the lack of faith and his mother Bono lost himself can be right. 'Looking for the father of my two little girls' At first I also thought it was the pervert side of Bono, but I don't believe that it could be that bad. I wonder what Bob Hewson thought when he listened this song, LOL. |
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| U2 – Do You Feel Loved Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I completely agree with eirenightshade, she actually nailed it. Bono is singing to a fan who worships him, he says that she can take his hands that she appreciate so much, but they actually never done anything for her, and it is true that Bono never worked a day in something that it's not music. The boots, the shirt, etc. represent those objects that the fans worship so much just because they belonged to a rock star. Then, he ask himself, or maybe he asks the fans: do you feel loved? Is this somehat sick relationship really love? The metaphor "it looks like the sun, but it feels like the rain", well... when you see Bono everyone would like to be in his place, you see a rock star, you see someone famous and rich, but those things that people would envy him, he feel tired and sick of them, and they have their prize, they feel... like the rain. "There's heat in the sun, to see us through the rain" hmmm... not sure about this, but maybe that beneath that rock star, if "take a look inside" you can see the real thing about being a rock star, but I'm not so sure. There's a chance that maybe even Bono doesn't know what it means but the line sounds great, LOL. All in all, it's a song about fame but mixed with a sex song, or maybe about sex with a fan... |
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| U2 – Discothèque Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it has something to do about people who try to find love in a shallow and superficial place like a disco, where all that you will find can be sex, but definitely not love, it looks like love but it's not, it's bubblegum. There's not much else to add, since two or three comments before just nailed the song. As for the Pop album, it's a mile better than the last one, which is way more pop trash than Pop. It seems like most people don't get that the title of the album isn't that the album is a Pop music album, it is about Pop CULTURE! And about a person who's sick of being a star and the price to pay for being famous. The album itself represent the condradictions of our culture, so shiny on the outside, but the lyrics are the most dark and negative that you can find in U2. If you still don't get it, look at the cover. It's clearly similar to the picture of Marilyn Monroe, I doubt that it is a coincidence, because in Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me live Marilyn face appear four times at the end of the song. |
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| U2 – God Part II Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Great, great, great song. The first 4 verses are one of the greatest of all time: there's no good without evil, what's happines if you never have troubles? What's truth without lies? The devil is somewhat necessary. I agree with who said that this is the preview Achtung Baby, especially The Fly, it's like the seed of that song. |
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| U2 – Red Hill Mining Town Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I agree with ballzofno in this song, but I think the miner intended to leave the town but he didn't because of his love to his father o lover, I don't know... It says "And you leave me holding on in Red Hill Town... I'm hanging on, you're all that's left to hold on to..." But I'm not really sure about this... great song anyway! |
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| U2 – Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is NOT about God. Definitely. A song about redemption wouldn't be so evilish made. There's irony, mockery and evilness in Bono's voice, like he is making fun of the girl's situation, he is not here to help her, on the contrary, he is here to decieve her and make it worse. This song is the most important of the whole Zooropa album, and probably the ZooTV tour(along with Zoo Station, The Fly, Even Better Than The Real Thing and Numb). I is supposed to be a song about a spoiled girl, but that's the superficial meaning. I think it's about addiction, every addiction, might be drugs or even TV(every song in this album has something to do with it). The fact that it is MacPhisto who sings this is not coincidence. I think MacPhisto is Daddy, and also the one who crashed his car, that's why he starts singing to the mirror, he is the Devil, but also The Fly when he gets old and retire to Las Vegas. He's addicted to fame(and also drugs probably). He says right after the song ends: "Look what you've done to me" and he leaves a pause in which you think he regrets his fame, but then he says "You've made me very famous and I thank you", as I said, he's addicted to fame. This song tells "Look what Daddy's done to YOU". There might be also a connection with Germany, but I don't think it's the central subject. I think Daddy is the drug dealer, and the girl is the victim. |
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| U2 – Gone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is the best of Pop and one of the best of U2 career. It's clearly about fame, I read somewhere that this came after a conversation with Michael Hutchence about the toxic effects of fame, which makes a lot of sense. The lyricist here is self-critic about how he changed due to his always rising fame. I like to think about it as a second part of The Fly, a kind of redemption of the character, his confession. "You changed your name, well that's okay, it's necessary And what you leave behind you don't miss anyway (...) You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy Then you learn to like the way it feels. You hurt yourself, you hurt your lover Then you discover What you thought was freedom is just greed." When Achtung Baby came up, they left behind the sound of the 80's. Bono changed his name to The Fly, who was an arrogant and cinic character. It felt like freedom, but it really was just greed. I also think that Bono somehow connected with Hutchence deeper problems, the ones who made him commit suicide. This song talks a lot more about him than Stuck In A Moment, and if you notice in the Elevation 2001 Live from Boston, when this song's weird guitar starts, he screams 'Hutch! Hear me!' to finally begin the song. |
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