I would argue that this song is specifically about a boyfriend (at the end of his rope with the bitter cycle of heroin addiction in this relationship) and coming to the ultimate conclusion that he (and more importantly his girlfriend who seems to be dangerously addicted) must detox NOW and suffer the painful chills of detox... The setting and inspiration is Dublin's Seven Towers...
Bono (Vertigo 2005 tour / Chicago) dedicates this song to our US troops and adding (at the end of the song) a prayer "Alleluia" for anyone WHO KNOWS SOMEONE WHO IS IN DANGER (including our US troops or say someone who is dangerously addicted to heroin...)...
watching his girlfriend wake up - the boyfriend realizes that this addictive cycle cannot go on
he gets up and out - takes the train - to get away from his hell hole - to think
this heroin trip has been bitter sweet
he concludes there is only one thing to do - sober up - they must both detox
he knows that she is going to resist detox because she is in deep (dangerously addicted)
his responses to her will need to be measured
he will have to minimize the crying, talking, & screaming at her - or she will run away to the heroin
eventually he returns to their residence waiting for her to return home
it has been a cloudy/rainy day
she arrives home with more heroin (poppy straw) for another dark night floating on heroin trips
she has obtained/stolen the heroin from the sea of the drug trade in/around the Seven Towers area
the drug trade is raging outside and he can see in her eyes that she is desperately addicted
**and at this moment he realizes that she must endure detox or die (knowing full well that he will not leave her but will suffer the same fate if necessary)...
I would argue that this song is specifically about a boyfriend (at the end of his rope with the bitter cycle of heroin addiction in this relationship) and coming to the ultimate conclusion that he (and more importantly his girlfriend who seems to be dangerously addicted) must detox NOW and suffer the painful chills of detox... The setting and inspiration is Dublin's Seven Towers...
Bono (Vertigo 2005 tour / Chicago) dedicates this song to our US troops and adding (at the end of the song) a prayer "Alleluia" for anyone WHO KNOWS SOMEONE WHO IS IN DANGER (including our US troops or say someone who is dangerously addicted to heroin...)...
watching his girlfriend wake up - the boyfriend realizes that this addictive cycle cannot go on he gets up and out - takes the train - to get away from his hell hole - to think this heroin trip has been bitter sweet he concludes there is only one thing to do - sober up - they must both detox he knows that she is going to resist detox because she is in deep (dangerously addicted) his responses to her will need to be measured he will have to minimize the crying, talking, & screaming at her - or she will run away to the heroin eventually he returns to their residence waiting for her to return home it has been a cloudy/rainy day she arrives home with more heroin (poppy straw) for another dark night floating on heroin trips she has obtained/stolen the heroin from the sea of the drug trade in/around the Seven Towers area the drug trade is raging outside and he can see in her eyes that she is desperately addicted **and at this moment he realizes that she must endure detox or die (knowing full well that he will not leave her but will suffer the same fate if necessary)...