The_Edge89
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I was listening to the fourth disc of the Salome Outtakes (or the Hansa Ton Outtakes if there's a diffrerence.)
when it suddenly dawned on me that the track that I listened to, Back Mask U2/Sick For Love (Woman) could be one of the Fez songs.
I can't belive it took me this long to see the connection.
About two months ago an article in french said that U2 were working on ten songs in Fez of which two were called One Bird and For Your Love.
(Source: http://www.telquel-online.com/277/arts1_277.shtml)
A fan who visited Eze last year and later posted here said that he/she heard a song that reminded him/her about the old outtake song as well.
The person tired to get the song on tape, but said unfortunately nothing was heard but the sound of waves.
If you're reading this please confirm that there's noting wrong with my memory!
A couple of weeks ago we got another Eze report stating: "We heard soft ballads with dancing rythm" and "No big guitars". I agree there might be a difference between "soft ballads with dancing rythm" and only "soft ballads" but interesting never the less. Also the sound of the old outtake is a bit ambient, although I admit that I haven't listen that much to Brian's solo work to be entirely sure of that.
Didn't Bono mention in the interview with Jo Whiley last Christmas that he wanted a more stipped down sound, with more space around the vocals? This would be the perfect song for him to do such a thing.
In another take of the song however, someone other than Bono is singing and I suspect that it might be Lanois, it does sound like him.
Lanois might've recorded it for his movie himself, with U2 and Brian as a backing band and sure, some of the lyrics in the outtake were used in So Cruel and some in Ultra Violet.
Actually I would say that the last seconds of his second trailer reminds me of this song, but maybe that's just the sound of something being played backwards that tricks me.
Interesting that they abandoned Rubin after a couple of months and started working with Eno/Lanois again, I'm thinking maybe they have a better insight of what is going on in the old tapes. But wouldn't it be unlikely though to bring back a song(s) that is more than 15 years old? Have they ever done that before?
U2 says they want to try new ways, and I interpret that as another reinvention.
Achtung Baby was the start of their latest reinvention before going back to the "classic" U2 sound we've heard on the last two albums.
"It's a U2 project" and "It feels like this is seperate material", Edge has said.
Your thoughts?
Here are the "lyrics" to the outtake with some help from the "The Achtung Baby Working Tapes Compendium" by Sira Vista:
When the night turns mean on you,
And the day is dry,
And there's no water around,
And you can't see the road ahead,
You can only see her
White and alive.
She's laughing in the face of love.
Your love is white and alive.
This is your last chance in my dreams.
In my dreams she stands over me.
Surrounded on all sides,
She has taken the higher ground.
And I'm the willing victim of her love.
And faith my favorite drug,
And faith my favorite drug,
I'm sick for love.
Sick for her/your love.
Sick foods you sell.
Just the sight of you makes me wobble.
I can't see straight, walk or talk to anyone else.
I can't even talk to you.
White and alive.
I'm laughing in the face of your face.
White and alive.
Sick for love.
Sick for love.
So, between the horses of love and lust
I'm trampled underfoot.
You're so ?? to your soul
drowining drunk on your love
And for a while you make me dizzy
And every beat of your heart
like the flapping wings of an angel
your heart beats
your heart beats
So long
So long
So long
so that was the pain?
mhm
So that was goodbye
mhm
And beauty makes us blind
mhm
(Bonogolease)
??? on the sunrise
And there she was
to high anymore
Your dark and cluttered heart.
And there's a quietness
That comes to this house
Where nobody can sleep.
She looks at her man
like he was a child
Waiting for the wave
(fade out)
when it suddenly dawned on me that the track that I listened to, Back Mask U2/Sick For Love (Woman) could be one of the Fez songs.
I can't belive it took me this long to see the connection.
About two months ago an article in french said that U2 were working on ten songs in Fez of which two were called One Bird and For Your Love.
(Source: http://www.telquel-online.com/277/arts1_277.shtml)
A fan who visited Eze last year and later posted here said that he/she heard a song that reminded him/her about the old outtake song as well.
The person tired to get the song on tape, but said unfortunately nothing was heard but the sound of waves.
If you're reading this please confirm that there's noting wrong with my memory!
A couple of weeks ago we got another Eze report stating: "We heard soft ballads with dancing rythm" and "No big guitars". I agree there might be a difference between "soft ballads with dancing rythm" and only "soft ballads" but interesting never the less. Also the sound of the old outtake is a bit ambient, although I admit that I haven't listen that much to Brian's solo work to be entirely sure of that.
Didn't Bono mention in the interview with Jo Whiley last Christmas that he wanted a more stipped down sound, with more space around the vocals? This would be the perfect song for him to do such a thing.
In another take of the song however, someone other than Bono is singing and I suspect that it might be Lanois, it does sound like him.
Lanois might've recorded it for his movie himself, with U2 and Brian as a backing band and sure, some of the lyrics in the outtake were used in So Cruel and some in Ultra Violet.
Actually I would say that the last seconds of his second trailer reminds me of this song, but maybe that's just the sound of something being played backwards that tricks me.
Interesting that they abandoned Rubin after a couple of months and started working with Eno/Lanois again, I'm thinking maybe they have a better insight of what is going on in the old tapes. But wouldn't it be unlikely though to bring back a song(s) that is more than 15 years old? Have they ever done that before?
U2 says they want to try new ways, and I interpret that as another reinvention.
Achtung Baby was the start of their latest reinvention before going back to the "classic" U2 sound we've heard on the last two albums.
"It's a U2 project" and "It feels like this is seperate material", Edge has said.
Your thoughts?
Here are the "lyrics" to the outtake with some help from the "The Achtung Baby Working Tapes Compendium" by Sira Vista:
When the night turns mean on you,
And the day is dry,
And there's no water around,
And you can't see the road ahead,
You can only see her
White and alive.
She's laughing in the face of love.
Your love is white and alive.
This is your last chance in my dreams.
In my dreams she stands over me.
Surrounded on all sides,
She has taken the higher ground.
And I'm the willing victim of her love.
And faith my favorite drug,
And faith my favorite drug,
I'm sick for love.
Sick for her/your love.
Sick foods you sell.
Just the sight of you makes me wobble.
I can't see straight, walk or talk to anyone else.
I can't even talk to you.
White and alive.
I'm laughing in the face of your face.
White and alive.
Sick for love.
Sick for love.
So, between the horses of love and lust
I'm trampled underfoot.
You're so ?? to your soul
drowining drunk on your love
And for a while you make me dizzy
And every beat of your heart
like the flapping wings of an angel
your heart beats
your heart beats
So long
So long
So long
so that was the pain?
mhm
So that was goodbye
mhm
And beauty makes us blind
mhm
(Bonogolease)
??? on the sunrise
And there she was
to high anymore
Your dark and cluttered heart.
And there's a quietness
That comes to this house
Where nobody can sleep.
She looks at her man
like he was a child
Waiting for the wave
(fade out)
