GOYB lyrics Discussion

[LuvandPeace1980]

anyone worked out any of the lyrics yet?

 

[dan_smee]

work in progress:

The future needs a big kiss,
Winds blow with a twist,
Never seen a moon like this,
Can you see it too?

Night is falling everywhere,
Rockets hit the fun-fair,
Satan loves a bomb scare,
But he won’t scare you.

Sexy boots, get on your boots.

You free me from a dark dream,
Candy-floss, ice-cream,
All the kids are screaming,
But the ghosts aren’t real.

Here’s where you’ve got to be,
??? and community,
Laughter is eternity,
If joy is real.

You don’t know how beautiful,
You don’t know how beautiful you are,
You don’t know. You don’t get it do you?
You don’t know how beautiful you are.

Someone’s ?? to blow it up
We’re into growing up,
Women are the future,
Hold a big revelation.

I got a submarine,
You got gasoline,
I don’t wana talk about wars between nations

Sexy boots, get on your boots.

You don’t know how beautiful,
You don’t know how beautiful you are,
You don’t know. You don’t get it do you?
You don’t know how beautiful you are.

I don’t wanna talk about wars between nationa

Let me hear the sound,
Let me hear the sound,
Let me hear the sound, sound
Let me hear the sound, sound
Let

 

[SeattleVertigo]

From the other thread....


The future needs a big kiss
Winds blow with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it too
Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the funfair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you

Sexy boots
Get on your boots
Yeah

Free me from the dark dream
Candy bars, ice cream
All the kids are screaming but the ghosts aren’t real
Here’s what you gotta be
Love & community
Laughter is eternity if joy is real

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are
You don’t know
You don't get it do you
You don’t know
How beautiful you are

If someone’s into blowing up
We’re into growing up
Women are the future
All the big revelations
I’ve gotta submarine
You’ve got gasoline
I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations
Not right now

Sexy boots
Get on your boots
Yeah
Foxy boots

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are

Sexy boots
I don’t wanna talk about wars

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
My God I’m going down
I don’t wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Meet me in the sound

Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Yeah

 

[Niceman]

From the other thread....


The future needs a big kiss
Winds blow with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it too
Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the funfair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you

Sexy boots
Get on your boots
Yeah

Free me from the dark dream
Candy bars, ice cream
All the kids are screaming but the ghosts aren’t real
Here’s what you gotta be
Love & community
Laughter is eternity if the joy is real

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are
You don’t know
You don't get it do you
You don’t know
How beautiful you are

If someone’s into blowing up
We’re into growing up
Women are the future
All the big revelations
I’ve gotta submarine
You’ve got gasoline
I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations
Not right now

Sexy boots
Get on your boots
Yeah
Foxy boots

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are

Sexy boots
I don’t wanna talk about wars

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
My God I’m going down
I don’t wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Meet me in the sound

Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Yeah

Yeah, this is the best I could work out. The only line I'm ify on is;
"If someone’s into blowing up"

 

[Niceman]

Probably "Never seen a MOON like this."

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Yeah, Moon makes more sense to me.

I've switched it in my original post.

 

[Mountain Dew Ma]

It is Moon.

 

[Lemonboy]

I surely think it sounds more like blood and community than love and community.

 

[bram]

I think it is: "if someone starts to blow it up"

And I'm pretty sure Love and community is right.

 

[Utoo]

A little of my take on meanings so far:

"Satan loves a bomb scare,
But he won’t scare you."
&
"If someone’s into blowing up
We’re into growing up"

= Clearly about suicide bombers. I actually hear "So he won't scare you," though I could be wrong. If that's the lyric, then it's kind of mocking suicide bombers by saying that they please Satan in order to protect themselves from him---that they think they're doing the work of God, but they're really doing it out of fear and hatred.

"I’ve gotta submarine
You’ve got gasoline
I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations"

= US to Middle East: "Hey, Middle East, buddy, pal! Gimme some of your oil so that I can power my big old submarines....I'm going to gloss over the fact that I'm going to use these submarines to blow the crap out of you."


Awesome to see some political bite back in Bono's lyrics.

 

[U2girl]

That's a little too deep reading I think.

 

[bram]

Here's my attempt at being complete:

The future needs a big kiss
Winds blow with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it too?

Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the funfair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you

Sexy boots
Get on your boots
Yeah

Ya free me from the dark dream
Candy bars, ice cream
All the kids are screaming but the ghosts aren’t real
Here’s what you gotta be
Love & community
Laughter is eternity if joy is real

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are
You don’t know
(No you don’t know how beautiful)
You don't get it do you
You don’t know (you don’t know)
How beautiful you are

If someone starts to blow it up
We’re into growing up
Women are the future
Hold the big revelations

I’ve gotta submarine
You’ve got gasoline
I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations

Not right now

Sexy boots
(Yo! No no no)
Get on your boots
Yeah
(Not right now)
Foxy boots

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are
You don’t know
(No you don’t know how beautiful)
You don't get it do you
You don’t know (You don’t know)
How beautiful you are

Sexy boots
I don’t wanna talk about the wars between the nations
Sexy boots
Yeah

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound sound
Let me in the sound sound
Let me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound now
God I’m going down
I don’t wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound sound
Let me in the sound sound
Meet me in the sound

Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!

 

[vaz02]

I think utoo is bang on the money about the gas thing.

 

[Utoo]

That's a little too deep reading I think.

I think that we've been doing Bono a disservice due to a few weak lyrics in the last few albums and assuming that everything now is at face value. Perhaps the poppiness of the song makes it easy to do that. I, however, do believe that he put some effort into it & that the song is quite political.

Also, from the other thread:

The "sexy boots" bit is not about Saturday night fuckme boots. It's about army/fighting boots, and in kind of a sarcastic way.

The irony has returned.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Can we confirm whether or not he is actually saying "SEXY BOOTS" in the song?

 

[Tiger Edge]

I think utoo is bang on the money about the gas thing.

 

[Tiger Edge]

The "sexy boots" bit is not about Saturday night fuckme boots. It's about army/fighting boots, and in kind of a sarcastic way.

I definitely see that too. There's too much dark imagery in the song for it to be innocent like Veritgo or Beautiful Day or whatever else.

 

[victor_f]

A little of my take on meanings so far:

"Satan loves a bomb scare,
But he won’t scare you."
&
"If someone’s into blowing up
We’re into growing up"

= Clearly about suicide bombers. I actually hear "So he won't scare you," though I could be wrong. If that's the lyric, then it's kind of mocking suicide bombers by saying that they please Satan in order to protect themselves from him---that they think they're doing the work of God, but they're really doing it out of fear and hatred.

"I’ve gotta submarine
You’ve got gasoline
I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations"

= US to Middle East: "Hey, Middle East, buddy, pal! Gimme some of your oil so that I can power my big old submarines....I'm going to gloss over the fact that I'm going to use these submarines to blow the crap out of you."


Awesome to see some political bite back in Bono's lyrics.

Agree.

Submarine vs. Gasoline

US vs. Iraq?

 

[U2girl]

I think that we've been doing Bono a disservice due to a few weak lyrics in the last few albums and assuming that everything now is at face value. Perhaps the poppiness of the song makes it easy to do that. I, however, do believe that he put some effort into it & that the song is quite political.

Also, from the other thread:

The "sexy boots" bit is not about Saturday night fuckme boots. It's about army/fighting boots, and in kind of a sarcastic way.

The irony has returned.

What about the rest of the lines ? Only what you named specifically could be interpreted that way.

If Bono's indeed gone more political, I pray he can do better than that on the rest of NLOTH.

 

[bram]

For this lyric:

Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you.

I think it could actually be a reference to President Bush, whose administration essentially orchestrated a bomb scare (WMD in Iraq). He/they weren't scared to use the bomb scare/playing on people's fears tactics...

 

[Utoo]

For this lyric:

Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you.

I think it could actually be a reference to President Bush, whose administration essentially orchestrated a bomb scare (WMD in Iraq). He/they weren't scared to use the bomb scare/playing on people's fears tactics...

Could be. Or maybe even just any soldier or bomber in general---that it doesn't phase them at all.

 

[U2girl]

Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the funfair



"the night is full of holes as bullets rip the sky of ink with gold"

 

[Utoo]

What about the rest of the lines ? Only what you named specifically could be interpreted that way.

If Bono's indeed gone more political, I pray he can do better than that on the rest of NLOTH.

The rest of the song is essentially pro-peace:

"Here’s what you gotta be
Love & community
Laughter is eternity if joy is real"

"We’re into growing up
Women are the future
Hold the big revelations"

"You don't know how beautiful you are."

 

[last unicorn]

I think those lyrics are very political, the song is full of contradicition, like the poppy rhythm vs. the content, or the chorus with "Sexy Boots" vs. the verses with the political stuff. Utoo's analysis makes sense to me.

 

[U2girl]

Nah. It's just a rollicking fun single. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[vaz02]

People on this forum take too much stuff from face value, its like they cant be fucked reading into stuff.

 

[Irishteen]

I'm not sure what I think of the lyrics overall but Gasoline/Submarine definitely makes me think of the US and the Middle East. I get the sense of some other political overtones in the song too though some of it sounds like nonsense as well. It at least feels like B put a bit of effort into these lyrics anyway.

Maybe we'll get more context on "sexy boots" when we see the video

 

[last unicorn]

Nah. It's just a rollicking fun single. Nothing more, nothing less.

You find something funny in the song?

 

[digitize]

I think those lyrics are very political, the song is full of contradicition, like the poppy rhythm vs. the content, or the chorus with "Sexy Boots" vs. the verses with the political stuff. Utoo's analysis makes sense to me.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Rather Discotheque-like in that sense.

 

[digitize]

Lyrically, this is reminding me more and more of The Fly.