You can reach
But you can't grab it
You can hold it, control it
No but, you can't bag it
You can push
But you can't direct it
Circulate, regulate, oh no
You cannot connect it
You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
You just can't get enough
Of that lovie dovie stuff
You get confused
But you know it
Yeah, you hurt for it, work for it, love
You don't always show it
Let's go
Let's go
Let's go
Discotheque
Let's go
Let's go
Discotheque
Looking for the one
But you know you're somewhere else instead
You want to be the song
Be the song that you hear in your head
It's not a trick
'Cause you can't learn it
It's the way you don't pay, that's okay
'Cause you can't earn it
You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
You just can't get enough
Of that lovie dovie stuff
Let's go
Let's go, ah
Discotheque
Go go
Go go, ha
Discotheque
Looking for the one
But you know you're somewhere else instead
You want to be the song
Be the song that you hear in your head
Love
(You want heaven in your heart)
(Heaven in your heart)
(The sun, the moon, and the stars)
But you take what you can get
'Cause it's all that you can find
But you know there's something more
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Ha ha
Ha ha
Ha ha
Ha ha
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque
But you can't grab it
You can hold it, control it
No but, you can't bag it
You can push
But you can't direct it
Circulate, regulate, oh no
You cannot connect it
You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
You just can't get enough
Of that lovie dovie stuff
You get confused
But you know it
Yeah, you hurt for it, work for it, love
You don't always show it
Let's go
Let's go
Let's go
Discotheque
Let's go
Let's go
Discotheque
Looking for the one
But you know you're somewhere else instead
You want to be the song
Be the song that you hear in your head
It's not a trick
'Cause you can't learn it
It's the way you don't pay, that's okay
'Cause you can't earn it
You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
You just can't get enough
Of that lovie dovie stuff
Let's go
Let's go, ah
Discotheque
Go go
Go go, ha
Discotheque
Looking for the one
But you know you're somewhere else instead
You want to be the song
Be the song that you hear in your head
Love
(You want heaven in your heart)
(Heaven in your heart)
(The sun, the moon, and the stars)
But you take what you can get
'Cause it's all that you can find
But you know there's something more
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Ha ha
Ha ha
Ha ha
Ha ha
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque (I can't get, I can't, not enough)
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque
(Boom Cha) (Boom Cha) Discotheque
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I hate when people bash "POP" and the POPMart '97 Tour... POP is supposed to the be the American Zooropa, can you get that? The funny thing is is that the only people who hate this album are Americans. It sold insanely well all over the rest of the world.
Look, Zooropa was a bit of satire about the state of affairs in Europe at the time. The European Union was forming (and now they're all using the same damn money, I might add - breaks my heart that the Irish are no longer trading bills with James Joyce's face on them) and Bono was thinking, hell, what happened last time somebody tried to unite all of Europe under one flag? Well, that was Hitler and his nazi party, and that was bad mojo all the way around.
So the ZOO TV shows began with Bono goose-stepping in front of the European Union flag. LOL.
Okay, so what does this have to do with POPMart? POPMart was about capitalism, dammit. If ZOO TV was the European propaganda channel (The latest and greatest in software, hardware, and mens' wear!) then POPMart was the American propaganda channel... the boys dressed as superheroes, dancing under a golden arch, with a big-ass TV screen and an olive skewered on a swizzle stick? And that gigantic lemon mothership?
Yes it was funny. It was SUPPOSED to be funny. It was American culture through the eyes of some European guys. Or as Bono put it. "This is our church... made up of little bits and pieces of America. You know, we, we come to America and we drive around the cities and we see all these buildings... buildings that look so ugly during the day... but oh so beautiful at night."
POPMart was Pop Art. U2 doing Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein. It was brilliant, it was a brilliant tour, and a brilliant album about seeking salvation and satisfaction in the shiny, shallow veneer of capitalist culture. From "Playboy Mansion," about trying to get ahead, drive the biggest car, buy the biggest house, score the hottest woman, to "Discothéaue," about trying to find God in the drug-bleared night of the dance hall.
If you don't like this record, it's not because it isn't good. It's because you don't get it.
And that's sad, because it really isn't that complicated.