"And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lying still
Said I gotta do something about where we're going"
This woman came to a realization that she has to change her life.
"Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain
Maybe run from the darkness in the night"
The night is dark. Dark is bad. Running from it is getting away from the bad. Again, realizing she has to change her life.
"Sweet the sin
Bitter, the taste in my mouth"
What we think is good (sweet), sometimes is not so good and may leave a bad taste in our mouth (bitter).
"I see seven towers
But I only see one way out"
Here's where she lives. Common knowledge. But killing herself is not what is meant by one way out. She realizes that she has to leave. Maybe simply moving/leaving is the one way out?
"You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice"
Notice how Bono raises his voice in the "scream without raising your voice" line?? A little sarcasm, maybe. Possibly implying how we can't really cry without weeping, talk without speaking and of course scream without raising our voices.
"You know I took the poison from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here"
Could be that she is acknowledging her addiction. Or alternatively she is simply taking herself out of a bad situation.
"She runs through the streets with her eyes painted red"
She's crying.
"Under a black belly of cloud in the rain"
Rain, dark, cloud = despair. The atmosphere at the time.
"In through a doorway
She brings me white gold and pearls"
Maybe she's going to a pawn shop to sell some valuables to get the money to leave?
"Stolen from the sea she is raging, she is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes"
Not sure about this... But some people refer to the sea (ocean) as a she. A raging sea could represent a storm. And the "storm blows up in her eyes" represents that things have finally reached the turning point.
"She will suffer the needle chill"
I see this as her getting off the drugs. The suffering of the chill is the after-effects of getting off the drugs. People who quit drugs "cold turkey" get "the shakes" and "chills".
"She's running to stand still"
Someone else mentioned that this could mean just keeping up. I agree. Making a move, quitting drugs, suffering from the after-effects, etc. are a lot to handle, just to be "normal" - Running to stand still.
"And so she woke up Woke up from where she was lying still Said I gotta do something about where we're going"
This woman came to a realization that she has to change her life.
"Step on a steam train Step out of the driving rain Maybe run from the darkness in the night"
The night is dark. Dark is bad. Running from it is getting away from the bad. Again, realizing she has to change her life.
"Sweet the sin Bitter, the taste in my mouth"
What we think is good (sweet), sometimes is not so good and may leave a bad taste in our mouth (bitter).
"I see seven towers But I only see one way out"
Here's where she lives. Common knowledge. But killing herself is not what is meant by one way out. She realizes that she has to leave. Maybe simply moving/leaving is the one way out?
"You got to cry without weeping Talk without speaking Scream without raising your voice"
Notice how Bono raises his voice in the "scream without raising your voice" line?? A little sarcasm, maybe. Possibly implying how we can't really cry without weeping, talk without speaking and of course scream without raising our voices.
"You know I took the poison from the poison stream Then I floated out of here"
Could be that she is acknowledging her addiction. Or alternatively she is simply taking herself out of a bad situation.
"She runs through the streets with her eyes painted red" She's crying.
"Under a black belly of cloud in the rain" Rain, dark, cloud = despair. The atmosphere at the time.
"In through a doorway She brings me white gold and pearls" Maybe she's going to a pawn shop to sell some valuables to get the money to leave?
"Stolen from the sea she is raging, she is raging And the storm blows up in her eyes" Not sure about this... But some people refer to the sea (ocean) as a she. A raging sea could represent a storm. And the "storm blows up in her eyes" represents that things have finally reached the turning point.
"She will suffer the needle chill" I see this as her getting off the drugs. The suffering of the chill is the after-effects of getting off the drugs. People who quit drugs "cold turkey" get "the shakes" and "chills".
"She's running to stand still" Someone else mentioned that this could mean just keeping up. I agree. Making a move, quitting drugs, suffering from the after-effects, etc. are a lot to handle, just to be "normal" - Running to stand still.