I excuse myself from the conversation because there is nothing left to say. It has boiled down to having to back up your feelings on a musical piece. No, I don't have to. I can see where homosexual tones may be in "Twilight" but it is not what I believe the song is about. End of story. I don't need to back up why I think this. The fact that it is my opinion should be good enough. I don't need you to explain all the books and essays you've read on "Queer Research" to agree that your point is Valid. I've been saying all thread that it's fine to find those things in music, and I'm happy everyone is interperating the song in their own way. What I'm not taking a liking to, is how people immediately pounced on my defending of someone who was targetted as a homophobic and just plain wrong because some people couldn't even fathom that another person may feel a different way. As far as the mocking goes, right or wrong, the point I was trying to make is that just because YOU aren't looking at those Joshua Tree lyrics in terms of Queer Studies does NOT mean that they couldn't be looked at. That wasn't my discussion, so I can't tell you why they are homosexual or not, but I'm sure someone else could. Just because it's not obvious to YOU why a lyric in The Joshua Tree is homosexual, or whatever, doesn't make it not so. Just like it's not right for me to say that "Twilight" makes no gay references, which is close-minded. If I wanted to go into why I would think that the line I mocked in Acrobat had a gay undertone, I probably could, but that wasn't my intention. All I came here to do was to defend someone who was being attacked on all sides, and being falsely called homophobic or ignorant or whatever. I wanted to explain the opposite side's view and hope that everyone could say they accept my opinion, but that didn't happen. First with the 3 of you just basically giving me the opinion that I am wrong and have no right to say I disagree with the topic because I haven't read the books you have on Queer Studies. Those studies we're not brought in here until YOU decided to bring them in, so I have every right to say I don't think the topic is correct, wether or not I have been versed in that or not. Then with FinanceGuy just basically resorting to 3rd grade insults to try and prove his/her point. This has been a very strange thread, and I've tried my best to defend Niceman while also being civil and trying to gain acceptance of the opposing side's feelings, but now it's come to a point where insults are being thrown around for not conforming. I'm sorry but I will not conform because someone calls me a Bible thumper. I will not conform because I haven't read some books. Music is about feeling, it's not about books. I feel differently, and that's ok. I know it's ok to feel differently because that's why Bono writes his songs, to give us fans something to believe in, and if I choose to believe in something different than the people in this thread, it's perfectly fine, and I'm not ignorant, or wrong, or homophobic for doing it. Thanks to you for making good points and enlightening me on a subject I didn't know much of. (Queer Studies and whatnot) Cya.