I'm kind of in the middle about this song too, but I'm leaning toward Metathought's reasoning that this might actually be PRO-Bono (no pun intended!)
It's trendy to immediately jump to bashing Bono, but the song might actually be FOR his case instead of against it. Politics and celebrity are the same...Bono has used his celebrity successfully AGAINST politics.
Some people claim Bono has a messiah complex, but the lines, "When the World is Over..", "pray that they see the new Messiah" - "and somewhere in the darkness a flag goes running by, the smell of cigarettes and love are incense to the fly" are not about Bono being God...but about Bono being right about God.(?)
When people wake up and realize that God is supposed to be about Love, the world will be over and Bono will be saying "I told you so..." (...just FYI, I am non-Christian so I am not religiously biased..)
I don't know anything about this band, Clutch, but they seem to know a good bit about Bono and U2 by their (very old!) references. The "Fly" was a stage-persona Bono played during the Zoo TV tour in the early 1990's, and U2 is infamous for their white-flag/anti-war routine from the early 80's. Even Bono himself jokes about having a messiah complex...the casualness of wiping stigmata with a napkin (as if it were spilled ketchup) would totally go along with the joke.
You can probably tell I'm a U2 fan; even if this song were Anti-Bono I'd still give it kudos for at least being a million times more intelligent than most of the stuff I've seen/heard/read.
I'm kind of in the middle about this song too, but I'm leaning toward Metathought's reasoning that this might actually be PRO-Bono (no pun intended!) It's trendy to immediately jump to bashing Bono, but the song might actually be FOR his case instead of against it. Politics and celebrity are the same...Bono has used his celebrity successfully AGAINST politics.
Some people claim Bono has a messiah complex, but the lines, "When the World is Over..", "pray that they see the new Messiah" - "and somewhere in the darkness a flag goes running by, the smell of cigarettes and love are incense to the fly" are not about Bono being God...but about Bono being right about God.(?) When people wake up and realize that God is supposed to be about Love, the world will be over and Bono will be saying "I told you so..." (...just FYI, I am non-Christian so I am not religiously biased..)
I don't know anything about this band, Clutch, but they seem to know a good bit about Bono and U2 by their (very old!) references. The "Fly" was a stage-persona Bono played during the Zoo TV tour in the early 1990's, and U2 is infamous for their white-flag/anti-war routine from the early 80's. Even Bono himself jokes about having a messiah complex...the casualness of wiping stigmata with a napkin (as if it were spilled ketchup) would totally go along with the joke.
You can probably tell I'm a U2 fan; even if this song were Anti-Bono I'd still give it kudos for at least being a million times more intelligent than most of the stuff I've seen/heard/read.