truecoloursfly
The Fly
Where have I been?
When I first got the Best Of, I frankly didn't get Everlasting Love -- it just seemed too Phil Spectorish a pop song to make any sense in U2's hands, and I overlooked it. (What was I thinking??)
So the other day I put on the b-sides just for a change of pace, as I've done often enough before, and this time Everlasting Love blew me outta my chair: as guileless a profession of faith as I can imagine from them! Is it just me?? Lately I've been "studying" ZooTV's Unchained Melody and Can't Help Falling in Love as hymns to the Higher Love, so this time, finally, I could hear what they were actually doingwith EL.
Oh, it's beautiful! Bono sounds young, the rendition is unsophisticated but explosive in its enthusiasm -- just like their cover of Woody Guthrie's Jesus Christ, an almost manic energy... but that song is as political as any of their own, and what I find so refreshing in Everlasting Love is that it's... an unabashed love song -- no politics, no shadow, no sorrow -- to Christ, to God.
I don't even hear, although I try, the "romance" that Bono usually manages to layer into songs about Divine Love (and vice versa), I only hear pure adoration of God. (There's just that sticky line about -- I think -- "be my bride"? But I can't help but hear an allusion to "the bridegroom" in it.) Especially Bono's delivery of "...eternal love..." He just sounds so excited and... relieved, somehow! to sing out his joy with such an open heart...
Have you heard the same? Is this old news, and I'm just late to the party?? LOL I don't care, I'm listening to it over and over. Bono's faith is a huge inspiration to me, and this just brings it home. Amen, brother...
Deb D
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I wanna walk with you along an unapproved road
the greatest frontman in the world - by truecoloursfly: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=1575
When I first got the Best Of, I frankly didn't get Everlasting Love -- it just seemed too Phil Spectorish a pop song to make any sense in U2's hands, and I overlooked it. (What was I thinking??)
So the other day I put on the b-sides just for a change of pace, as I've done often enough before, and this time Everlasting Love blew me outta my chair: as guileless a profession of faith as I can imagine from them! Is it just me?? Lately I've been "studying" ZooTV's Unchained Melody and Can't Help Falling in Love as hymns to the Higher Love, so this time, finally, I could hear what they were actually doingwith EL.
Oh, it's beautiful! Bono sounds young, the rendition is unsophisticated but explosive in its enthusiasm -- just like their cover of Woody Guthrie's Jesus Christ, an almost manic energy... but that song is as political as any of their own, and what I find so refreshing in Everlasting Love is that it's... an unabashed love song -- no politics, no shadow, no sorrow -- to Christ, to God.
I don't even hear, although I try, the "romance" that Bono usually manages to layer into songs about Divine Love (and vice versa), I only hear pure adoration of God. (There's just that sticky line about -- I think -- "be my bride"? But I can't help but hear an allusion to "the bridegroom" in it.) Especially Bono's delivery of "...eternal love..." He just sounds so excited and... relieved, somehow! to sing out his joy with such an open heart...
Have you heard the same? Is this old news, and I'm just late to the party?? LOL I don't care, I'm listening to it over and over. Bono's faith is a huge inspiration to me, and this just brings it home. Amen, brother...
Deb D
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I wanna walk with you along an unapproved road
the greatest frontman in the world - by truecoloursfly: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=1575