Most of U2's first album is sadly underrated today and I think the gorgeous music and lyrics of this one make it the album's best track. Everything in it conveys a sense of existential longing--of trying to find the meaning of life in among all the mundanities of everyday living--that I think all of us get at times, certainly when we're 20-somethings as the band were in 1980. The line "Do you feel in me/Anything redeeming/Any worthwhile feeling" personalises it even more. Most of us can probably relate to nights spent awake wondering whether we have anything in me that can change the world for the better.
Most of U2's first album is sadly underrated today and I think the gorgeous music and lyrics of this one make it the album's best track. Everything in it conveys a sense of existential longing--of trying to find the meaning of life in among all the mundanities of everyday living--that I think all of us get at times, certainly when we're 20-somethings as the band were in 1980. The line "Do you feel in me/Anything redeeming/Any worthwhile feeling" personalises it even more. Most of us can probably relate to nights spent awake wondering whether we have anything in me that can change the world for the better.