So 3 of U2's album closers walk into a bar and introduce themselves to each other:
"Hi, my name is Love is Blindness. Half of U2's fans think I close out their best album. I am a summary of all that is on that album. I am lyrically brilliant. I am that man featured throughout the album at the end of the night after he's lost everything, due to some or all of the reasons we covered throughout the rest of the album. Or maybe I am that man at the beginning, maybe I am wrapping myself in the darkness before I head out into the world that creates the rest of the songs on that album. What I really am is the feeling deep within the soul of the album and either I've been forced their post-experiences, or it's the view I've taken from the beginning. I could be the person on either side of the fence in those Achtung songs. I could be the person who is cruel, or the person singing So Cruel. How you interpret that will depend on your own life experiences. I'm one of U2's darkest sounding songs as well. I swirl and slow dance with you and around you, dance you down a set of stairs further and further into a dark and lonely night. I also feature one of The Edge's most beautiful and stunning guitar parts, a part that surely came from a very real and raw feeling due to his own life at the time, and a part that many say expresses the feeling of loneliness, desperation, heartbreak and downright depression better than any lyric ever could. My guitar part has even been described as a prayer. I mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I am a very raw and powerful song."
"Hi, my name is Wake Up Dead Man. I close out an album that describes a complicated and cluttered life, where all that has depth and meaning, all that is spiritual, all that is beautiful, has been replaced by all that is commercial, all that provides instant gratification, all that is on the surface, all that is shallow and superficial. I am a person who is fed up with this life and world that has strayed so far and become so noisy, so cluttered, so crass. I have followed that road too and am now very lost. I am a person crying out for both my personal spiritual needs, and for the world around me to realise how far they've come and to pull back and realise what is truly important in life, and to realise the calm, the beauty, the simple things, something as simple as the reed in the saxophone for example. I am crying out in the hope that something I do still hang onto, despite it long losing a presence or feeling within me, can return and guide me. I feel lost and empty. I am also at the end of a hard day, a hard period in time. I also dance and swirl with you, but it's more the clutter of ideas and thoughts and images spinning around as I lie there in bed, unable to sleep. I am one of U2's most complicated recordings, with many, many layers of sound and song, spinning forwards, spinning backwards. The random sounds of a day and night spinning in your head as you try to go to sleep. In all of that is an incredible beauty, the exact beauty I am trying to find. Listen closely. I am also a very raw and powerful song. Maybe U2s best spiritual song."
"Hi, my name is Yahweh. I flat out suck. I am a rehash of a lyrical idea previously used to far greater effect and far greater meaning. I am the sound of U2 pre-programmed on a keyboard by a guy who can't quite get the sound of U2 right, because U2 would never sound this bland or generic. Granted, my theme and meaning fits in with the album, and indeed is closure to the album, but I've done it in such a weak arse way, I get the feeling that I'm just a quick summary written in 5 minutes, not really expressing anything of true feeling or depth. I am a U2-does-spirituality-for-beginners song. I am regression not progression in every sense. I am an embarrassment to this great band who have covered the topic so fucking well in the past. I will now shrink away from this bar. I am in the company of greatness, something I can never dream of living up to. I will roll over and die in a dark alley somewhere as I should."
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Its more just a winter song... Nothing in it mentions or infers Christmas or Santa in anyway, think about the words and you will see what i mean
