theSoulfulMofo
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Hmmm... I don't post here much, but this past week this song has struck me hard in the head.
When I first got Achtung Baby, I loved almost every song, but could remotely care for the ending track.... Too depressing, was my first emotional impression. But back then, I didn't know what U2 were saying.
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness
The mood is set. The lover is in pain, yearning for some comfort (ie, the night).
In a parked car
In a crowded street
You see your love
Made complete
Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness
My interpretation: this verse portrays a betrayal of love... snippets of a lover seeing the beloved's secret rendevous with another ("In a parked car/In a crowded street/You see your love/ Made complete") ... The relationship starts to rip apart, the thread that holds them, the wedding knot that binded them.
Love is clockworks
And cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness
An unspoken betrayal of love between lover and beloved, or husband and wife, leads to silence and alienation... Their love becomes a relationship of mechanical reciprocity. Yet they still hold onto it, beacuse it's all they have left. Thus, their love is blindness-- they refuse to acknowledge the truth of their failure.
A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense
Jaded love leads to other ideas of love... on-the-spur casual one-nightstands, anything for a feelgood sex ("A little death/without mourning") where neither one would owe anything to the other nor regret it ("No call/ And no warning")... Since the 60s, sex is so prevalent in every culture that it becomes indeed "a dangerous idea/ That almost makes sense."
Love is drowning
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell
Take the money
Honey
Blindness
Even if we have that someone special, could it be that we be so sucked into a relationship with the other person... that we are burdened with pain and suffering from that very relationship, we do not have anywhere or anyone else to go to expiate our pensive thoughts.
In sum, I think this song is about the blindness that people fall into, by holding onto their ideals of love... I know I have.
When I first got Achtung Baby, I loved almost every song, but could remotely care for the ending track.... Too depressing, was my first emotional impression. But back then, I didn't know what U2 were saying.
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness
The mood is set. The lover is in pain, yearning for some comfort (ie, the night).
In a parked car
In a crowded street
You see your love
Made complete
Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness
My interpretation: this verse portrays a betrayal of love... snippets of a lover seeing the beloved's secret rendevous with another ("In a parked car/In a crowded street/You see your love/ Made complete") ... The relationship starts to rip apart, the thread that holds them, the wedding knot that binded them.
Love is clockworks
And cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness
An unspoken betrayal of love between lover and beloved, or husband and wife, leads to silence and alienation... Their love becomes a relationship of mechanical reciprocity. Yet they still hold onto it, beacuse it's all they have left. Thus, their love is blindness-- they refuse to acknowledge the truth of their failure.
A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense
Jaded love leads to other ideas of love... on-the-spur casual one-nightstands, anything for a feelgood sex ("A little death/without mourning") where neither one would owe anything to the other nor regret it ("No call/ And no warning")... Since the 60s, sex is so prevalent in every culture that it becomes indeed "a dangerous idea/ That almost makes sense."
Love is drowning
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell
Take the money
Honey
Blindness
Even if we have that someone special, could it be that we be so sucked into a relationship with the other person... that we are burdened with pain and suffering from that very relationship, we do not have anywhere or anyone else to go to expiate our pensive thoughts.
In sum, I think this song is about the blindness that people fall into, by holding onto their ideals of love... I know I have.