Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
Pink Floyd, The Who and now even Green Day have all made concept albums that tell a complete story from start to finish. What would it be like to have a U2 concept album? This is how mine would look like. Now keep in mind that I have concentrated more on the lyrical content than whether it flows musically or not.
DISC ONE
1. Zoo Station
Our lead character is standing in the station waiting for the morning train. He’s ready for his workday, ready for the gridlock. He has to make it on time.
2. Desire
At the end of a busy day, our hero is ready to party. He’s gonna go where the bright lights and the big city meet. He’s having fun in Vegas and the fever is only getting higher.
3. Gloria
Then he sees her. He stumbles, tries to stand up but can’t find his feet. It’s love at first sight.
4. City Of Blinding Lights
He takes her out on Valentine’s Day to a fancy restaurant in New York City… a city lit by fireflies, a city of blinding lights.
5. All Because Of You
They come back from dinner and he professes his innermost feelings, his deepest love for her. They both reminisce on how they met; how he saw her beautiful face for the first time in the shadow of the moon.
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
And then the unthinkable happens. He can’t believe the news in the papers everywhere. A battle’s just begun. A quiet happy town has been torn apart.
7. Like A Song
It’s a revolution once again. Frustrated with people dividing against each other and fighting amongst themselves, a new heart is what he needs.
8. Rejoice
It’s still chaos out there as buildings are tumbling down and bombs are going off. But he sees a child on the street and prays for hope.
9. Electrical Storm
As the world around him spins into turmoil, his relationship enters stormy waters as well. It feels hot as hell and the tension is unbearable. They desperately need the rain now to wash away their bad luck.
10. Stranger In A Strange Land
He feels like he’s a stranger in his own town. He spends many sleepless nights wishing she was there with him at this uncertain time.
11.Seconds
It only takes a second to destroy everything you got. And he knows that this is goodbye.
DISC TWO
1. With Or Without You
Our lead character is really yearning for her now. Through the storm, he wants to reach the shore again. He waits and waits and it tears him up inside.
2. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
He thinks about what could have gone wrong. Was she too fast for him? Was it her crazy lifestyle that he couldn’t keep up with?
3. So Cruel
This is the sound of betrayal. He knows now that she crossed the line and pushed him over. He gave her everything she ever wanted but it wasn’t what she wanted.
4. Gone
He held on to every little thing so tightly that there was nothing left for him anyway. And the cynic in him wakes up. Closer to her everyday but didn’t want it that much anyway.
5. If God Will Send His Angels
Nobody made her do it, no one put words in her mouth but love has taken a train heading south. If God will send his angels, would everything be alright?
6. Please
He is sick and tired of it all. The streets are still capsizing but he also feels his own pain. Talk is getting nowhere as he makes his pleas.
7. Wake Up Dead Man
Feeling alone in a fucked up world, he asks Jesus if he’s working on something new to establish some order in all of this disorder. This is the ultimate moment of helplessness, a lot like Don’t Leave Me Now from The Wall.
8. Peace On Earth
It’s already gone too far. He’s sick of the pain and the sorrow and hearing again and again that there is gonna be peace on earth. Something has to be done.
9. Love And Peace Or Else
Okay, enough’s enough. It’s time to lay down the guns. There’s no time for a jealous lovers either. He doesn’t know if he can take it anymore and needs some release, some love and peace.
10. Beautiful Day
Negotiations are made and everything works out fine. Peace has been established finally. It’s a beautiful day once again in this town.
11. Yahweh
The sun is coming up on the ocean. There is a new hope for the future as his fractured relationship heals and he makes up with his love.
12. All I Want Is You
Our lead character knows now that material possessions like diamonds and gold are not what make love go around. All that matters is the person you’re with.
DISC ONE
1. Zoo Station
Our lead character is standing in the station waiting for the morning train. He’s ready for his workday, ready for the gridlock. He has to make it on time.
2. Desire
At the end of a busy day, our hero is ready to party. He’s gonna go where the bright lights and the big city meet. He’s having fun in Vegas and the fever is only getting higher.
3. Gloria
Then he sees her. He stumbles, tries to stand up but can’t find his feet. It’s love at first sight.
4. City Of Blinding Lights
He takes her out on Valentine’s Day to a fancy restaurant in New York City… a city lit by fireflies, a city of blinding lights.
5. All Because Of You
They come back from dinner and he professes his innermost feelings, his deepest love for her. They both reminisce on how they met; how he saw her beautiful face for the first time in the shadow of the moon.
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
And then the unthinkable happens. He can’t believe the news in the papers everywhere. A battle’s just begun. A quiet happy town has been torn apart.
7. Like A Song
It’s a revolution once again. Frustrated with people dividing against each other and fighting amongst themselves, a new heart is what he needs.
8. Rejoice
It’s still chaos out there as buildings are tumbling down and bombs are going off. But he sees a child on the street and prays for hope.
9. Electrical Storm
As the world around him spins into turmoil, his relationship enters stormy waters as well. It feels hot as hell and the tension is unbearable. They desperately need the rain now to wash away their bad luck.
10. Stranger In A Strange Land
He feels like he’s a stranger in his own town. He spends many sleepless nights wishing she was there with him at this uncertain time.
11.Seconds
It only takes a second to destroy everything you got. And he knows that this is goodbye.
DISC TWO
1. With Or Without You
Our lead character is really yearning for her now. Through the storm, he wants to reach the shore again. He waits and waits and it tears him up inside.
2. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
He thinks about what could have gone wrong. Was she too fast for him? Was it her crazy lifestyle that he couldn’t keep up with?
3. So Cruel
This is the sound of betrayal. He knows now that she crossed the line and pushed him over. He gave her everything she ever wanted but it wasn’t what she wanted.
4. Gone
He held on to every little thing so tightly that there was nothing left for him anyway. And the cynic in him wakes up. Closer to her everyday but didn’t want it that much anyway.
5. If God Will Send His Angels
Nobody made her do it, no one put words in her mouth but love has taken a train heading south. If God will send his angels, would everything be alright?
6. Please
He is sick and tired of it all. The streets are still capsizing but he also feels his own pain. Talk is getting nowhere as he makes his pleas.
7. Wake Up Dead Man
Feeling alone in a fucked up world, he asks Jesus if he’s working on something new to establish some order in all of this disorder. This is the ultimate moment of helplessness, a lot like Don’t Leave Me Now from The Wall.
8. Peace On Earth
It’s already gone too far. He’s sick of the pain and the sorrow and hearing again and again that there is gonna be peace on earth. Something has to be done.
9. Love And Peace Or Else
Okay, enough’s enough. It’s time to lay down the guns. There’s no time for a jealous lovers either. He doesn’t know if he can take it anymore and needs some release, some love and peace.
10. Beautiful Day
Negotiations are made and everything works out fine. Peace has been established finally. It’s a beautiful day once again in this town.
11. Yahweh
The sun is coming up on the ocean. There is a new hope for the future as his fractured relationship heals and he makes up with his love.
12. All I Want Is You
Our lead character knows now that material possessions like diamonds and gold are not what make love go around. All that matters is the person you’re with.