spanisheyes
Forum Moderator, The Goal Is Soul
In listening to U2's music in the light of Tuesday's tragedy...several songs have begin to ebb and flow into the subconscious of my mind that have been a calming effect to the feelings of despair, hopelessness, and the overwhelming sense that nothing could be done to prevent what happened. Such U2 songs as Sunday Bloody Sunday and Please are in your face songs which speak of Ireland's own tragedies at the hands of terrorist, and therefore, are in short need of interpretation. But it's the songs like Bad, One Tree Hill, Mothers of the Disappeared, One, North and South of the River, and I'm sure their are many others that have this difference that sets them apart, in good times or in the midst of tragedy. They have these layers about them. Layers that are ready to be exposed at a moment in time that allows them to rise up and meet the situation, and in them we find solitude, comfort, and even joy. When a U2 fan tries to explain his or her deep love for this band, for me, it is this layering effect in many of their songs that I have a hard time explaining. Some songs have a deeper meaning, that at times don't appear until years or situations later...even when some would question what appears to be the shallowness in Bono's lyrics upon first or second or third listening. But then something happens in life that begins to peel these layers of U2's songs, and you find the deeper meaning, and you wonder why you didn't catch it in the first place, is it simply that pain and grief take you to the core of your being and there you discover yourself, you sense it as Carson Daly put it as "the beat of every U2 song is the pulse of every human heart"...can I put it in a different slant, "the lyric of every U2 song is the emotion of every human soul". It appears that the layers have been exposed in such songs as Peace on Earth, and even Walk On for me and many others for this moment. So in the midst of this present darkness...light my way again and again U2.
Chris
[This message has been edited by spanisheyes (edited 09-16-2001).]
Chris
[This message has been edited by spanisheyes (edited 09-16-2001).]