Given the nature of 'Achtung Baby' and 'Zooropa,' I'd say this song fits in with the sensory overload, everything-is-subjective attitudes and pervasive speciousness they portray.
I feel this song is in the vein that flows from "The Fly" to "Numb" - it's got a repeated lyrical motif and enough incongruency in its phrases to drive batshit crazy anyone who tries to make heads or tails of it. And such is the world we live in. That U2 don't explicitly moralize but just put it out there is one of the things that makes them artists.
Given the nature of 'Achtung Baby' and 'Zooropa,' I'd say this song fits in with the sensory overload, everything-is-subjective attitudes and pervasive speciousness they portray.
I feel this song is in the vein that flows from "The Fly" to "Numb" - it's got a repeated lyrical motif and enough incongruency in its phrases to drive batshit crazy anyone who tries to make heads or tails of it. And such is the world we live in. That U2 don't explicitly moralize but just put it out there is one of the things that makes them artists.