The song IS about God; Bono even alluded to this by hanging a crucifix from his mike before he sang this song at a concert I attended.
Bono is simply making a statement -- a rhetorical question, if you will -- when he mentions "You don't even blink, now do you?" It is a statement of reassurance of that fact, to himself and to the listeners of this song. It is a statement made in awe -- not a question he expects God to answer.
And as to the other verse that starts, "When the night is someone else's, and you're trying to get some sleep/When your thoughts are too expensive to ever want to keep", the "YOU" in these lines is a general, non-specific "you," meaning anyone. Then in the subsequent lines, the "you" shifts to mean God. So what Bono is saying is that when your thoughts weigh heavy on your mind and you can't sleep because you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, and all of these troubling thoughts and problems are taking their toll in negative ways (COSTING you -- "too expensive to keep"), then comfort yourself to know that God is there watching, and he never blinks or looks away.
To Nightvid:
The song IS about God; Bono even alluded to this by hanging a crucifix from his mike before he sang this song at a concert I attended.
Bono is simply making a statement -- a rhetorical question, if you will -- when he mentions "You don't even blink, now do you?" It is a statement of reassurance of that fact, to himself and to the listeners of this song. It is a statement made in awe -- not a question he expects God to answer.
And as to the other verse that starts, "When the night is someone else's, and you're trying to get some sleep/When your thoughts are too expensive to ever want to keep", the "YOU" in these lines is a general, non-specific "you," meaning anyone. Then in the subsequent lines, the "you" shifts to mean God. So what Bono is saying is that when your thoughts weigh heavy on your mind and you can't sleep because you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, and all of these troubling thoughts and problems are taking their toll in negative ways (COSTING you -- "too expensive to keep"), then comfort yourself to know that God is there watching, and he never blinks or looks away.