The Troubles Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bkabbott 

Cover art for The Troubles lyrics by U2

What is interesting you know in England everyone wants to be American. There is a distinct celtic style it's not British or anything other than Irish. And U2 wants to be American, intentionally American, but they can't quite escape what they are, stylistically.

Apparently I have to explain why I will make so much money hackers, even a lot of the lyrics on DSOTM are fucking American poets.

U2 can't escape the Irish style even if they don't embrace it.

The troubles will never go away until they get out of their head.

@bkabbott Either my lack of grammer, was quite unbecoming, or Briton wankers voted my comment down.

British rock is charecterized by a love of American blues artistits. That is the alpha, maybe the Omega is the sex pistols, but by then everyone does every thing ala Neil Young. Young did it to be relevent, though you know he loved the Pistols.

The Troubles are a metaphor personally for how the British affected them in the troubles; being a metaphor for personal tribulations. Of course once they were climbing their goals, economically.

I heard some great contemporary and older Irish music...

@bkabbott

I am "Irish American" and the Irish would say on St. Pat's here "you're not Irish you're bloody American".

Obviously this song is a metaphor for what happened in Ireland and I was trying to tie into this metaphor but I was very drunk and did a poor job (and then after watching the British Office on Netflix and realizing that wanker meant "douche bag" and "faggot" - two words that carry extremely strong connotations in America besides the literal meaning - two words that equal the offensiveness of the word to British people....

@bkabbott I'm sorry for this comment. I have Schizophrenia and there was a medical interaction between alcohol and my Schizophrenic brain.

I sound like an idiot but I love Irish music. In Savannah, GA there is an NPR podcast called The Green Island. It is hosted by an Irish immigrant who taught me soccer.

Staffcasts, Inc will have an office in Dublin for European musicians. It will be appropriate for me to post YouTube concerts of all Irish musicians because I will post YouTube concerts of all musicians, with the intent of getting people an audience, as an American...