U2 = poetry

[Salome]

If you should choose one U2 song to have it's entire lyrics released as a poem, which one would you choose !
I would say "A sort of homecoming".


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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it

 

[Achtung_Bebe]

Hmmmmm there are so many poetic moments in U2's music, but I think I will go with "Running to Stand Still".. Each time I hear this song it paints a picture; the imagery is fabulous throughout! I do love that song!!

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"we're going to finish a record in a few months, and I dare anyone to make a better rock record this year"
- Bono on the new album

 

[ishkash]

One Tree Hill,I think its already a poem.
my fave line is "In this world of heart of darkness, a fire-zone where poets speak their heart and bleed for it".WOW!

 

[Alisaura]

I reckon Running to Stand Still too...
Maybe Numb, for a different kind of poetry.

 

[david]

In God's Country

Didn't a famous poet read Miami one time?
I thought I read about it in a 97 issue of Rolling Stone.

 

[Achtung Bubba]

Yup, famous beat poet Alan Ginsburg read the lyrics to "Miami" mere months before he passed away in early '97. The reading was actually aired (maybe only partially) during ABC's "A Year in POP", interlaced with the song itself.

Quite surreal, I assure you.

Oh, and in terms of U2's poetry, I'd go with "Numb". Its lyrics has very primitive, spoken word feel that could be interesting.

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- Achtung Bubba

[This message has been edited by Achtung Bubba (edited 08-20-2000).]

 

[adamswildhoney]

To many songs to narrow it just to one song for me!

 

[hippy]

To many songs to narrow it just to one song for me!

Exactly, so I'm going to cheat and list all the songs I would like to see released as poems

This is a great topic Salome!

My list:

• Surrender
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
• When Love Comes To Town
• Until the End of the World
• So Cruel
• Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
• The First Time
• If God Will Send His Angels
• Peace On Earth
• The Fly

 

[walkon11]

I would add Kite to the list...not only the "song" portion, but the added on end "last of the rock stars...etc" makes a beautiful outro to it.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

the unforgettable fire.

 

[Bonochick]

Ooooooooh......I can't choose!

One time, in one of my high school English classes, we had to memorize a poem to recite to the class. We convinced our teacher to let us recite the lyrics to a song if we'd rather. I couldn't pick one, so I recited every song on JT.....and got tons of extra credit!!

 

[pax]

Ummm...

Running to Stand Still
Stay
Angel of Harlem
God Part II
So Cruel
One

 

[FallingStar]

Definitely Love Is Blindness.

Maybe Two Shots Of Happy, but Love Is Blindness on the very top.

 

[scatteroflight]

I would say "A sort of homecoming".

I would agree wholeheartedly. Heartland and Running to Stand Still would get a look in too, but Homecoming would take it. My favourite U2 lyric--especially "And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape."

 

[elevation2u]

please
wake up dead man

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Definitely Love Is Blindness.

Absolutely.

I agree with "Stay", "Angel Of Harlem", "Running To Stand Still", and "One" as well.

"With Or Without You" also definitely deserves mention. I mean, especially with this part in particular-I just love this whole thing right here:

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

Now if that isn't poetic, I honestly don't know what is.

Angela

 

[Bono's shades]

I could never choose just one! In my opinion U2 has so many song lyrics that ARE poems because of the imagery and layers of meaning.

 

[dizzy]

Oh yes, there are far too many songs I could think of. But , "A Sort Of Homecoming" is definitely one of them.

Yup, famous beat poet Alan Ginsburg read the lyrics to "Miami" mere months before he passed away in early '97.

Wow, really? Never knew that.

 

[follower]

My choice would be So Cruel. A heartbreaking beautiful poem.

 

[Salome]

This is a great topic Salome!

thank you

I just noticed I started this thread july 2000
it's good to see it's lost nothing of it's relevance

and I would still vote A Sort of Homecoming

 

[hippy]

thank you

I just noticed I started this thread july 2000
it's good to see it's lost nothing of it's relevance

Oh wow... I didn't even notice that

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

Promenade

 

[zooshadow]

I aint going to deviate much from the abovementioned songs and pick

RTSS, just a luvly set of words, the first time i heard em i was moved, granted i was on a train

and

So cruel, Prolly cos it is dark and that 'fear or desire' line

 

[PopTart Pamela]

So Cruel
A Sort of Homecoming
Promenade
The Wanderer
but So Cruel is way ahead!

You need to find songs that do not have lengthy choruses that are repeditive - great for songs, but not for poetry.

Pamela

 

[elizabeth]

Does it seem like the really sad, soft songs have mostly been chosen here? I wonder what connection is there? Does the sad, slow music evoke the best from Bono?

No one picked my personal fave, "Love Rescue Me."

That song just hits something inside me.

 

[adamswildhoney]

oooo I agree elizabeth, Love Rescue Me would be a great song to have has a poem!!

all of the songs that have been suggested would make great poems.

 

[zooshadow]

I also forgot about Love rescue me, that is a great lyric. spes "i've conquered my past"

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

"Love Rescue Me"....

That'd be a great one as well.

Angela

 

[Scarletwine]

Heartland has to have some of my favorite lines.

RTSS
Love is Blindness
and Indiam Summer Sky
are right up there to.

 

[U2girl91289]

Definitely Running to Stand Still. I think that Bad could also be poetry.