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City of blinding lights
sometimes u cant .............
City of blinding lights
sometimes u cant .............
phillyfan26 said:1. Original of the Species
2. City of Blinding Lights
3. Love and Peace or Else
10. One Step Closer
11. Crumbs from Your Table
(Axver: Crumbs lyrics 10 times worse than Ultraviolet!)
I don't know about '93. What about '91 in the seemingly infallible 'One'? It's a song that could very well be Bono's finest hour as a lyric writer, yet there is still the redundant line, "Did I ask too much, more than a lot?" Clearly a case of looking for a rhyme for the next line ("You gave me nothing, now it's all I got.")CTU2fan said:1. OOTS
2. Crumbs
3. Vertigo
Live Yahweh is great, album version kinda sucks.
And I will never understand the love for COBL, IMO it and Man&Woman are clearly the worst songs on the album. COBL is OK musically but those lyrics, ugh. Lame hook, contrived verses...when did B-man fall off the tracks lyrically, '93 I guess (some days are sneaky, some days are leaky...)?
Zootlesque said:
2. Native Son (The Vertigo Mix)
CTU2fan said:when did B-man fall off the tracks lyrically, '93 I guess (some days are sneaky, some days are leaky...)?
CTU2fan said:1. OOTS
2. Crumbs
3. Vertigo
Live Yahweh is great, album version kinda sucks.
And I will never understand the love for COBL, IMO it and Man&Woman are clearly the worst songs on the album. COBL is OK musically but those lyrics, ugh. Lame hook, contrived verses...when did B-man fall off the tracks lyrically, '93 I guess (some days are sneaky, some days are leaky...)?
And don't forget the best set of lyrics on the entire Pop album (maybe of any U2 album?):namkcuR said:
I agree for the most part about COBL, but I can't see you say that 93 is when Bono "fell off the tracks" lyrically and say nothing in return.
Forgetting the music completely, many people here, including myself, think that the Pop record, released in 1997, is the pinnacle of Bono's lyric-writing:
"Mother/am I still your son/you know I've waited for so long/to hear you say so/Mother/you left and made me someone/now I'm still a child/but no one tells me no"
"Looking for a sound that's gonna drown out the world/looking for the father of my two little girls"
"God's got his phone off the hook, babe/Would he even pick up if he could?/It's been a while since we saw that child/Hangin' round this neighbourhood/See his mother dealing in a doorway/See Father Christmas with a begging bowl/And Jesus' sister's eyes are a blister/The High Street never looked so low"
"It's the blind leading the blond/It's the cops collecting for the cons/So where is the hope and/Where is the faith and the love?/What's that you say to me/Does love light up your Christmas tree?/The next minute you're blowing a fuse/And the cartoon network turns into the news"
"Intransigence is all around/Military's still in town/Armour plated suits and ties/Daddy just won't say goodbye/Referee won't blow the whistle/God is good but will he listen?/I'm nearly great but there's something missing/I left it in the duty free/Oh, though you never really/belonged to me"
"You wanted to get somewhere so badly/You had to lose yourself along the way/You changed your name/Well that's okay, it's necessary/And what you leave behind you don't miss anyway"
"You hurt yourself/you hurt your lover/Then you discover/What you thought was freedom is just greed"
"September, streets capsizing/Spilling over down the drains/Shard of glass, splinters like rain/But you could only feel your own pain/October, talk getting nowhere/November, December; remember/We just started again"
"Love is big/bigger than us/but love is not/what you're thinking of/It's what lovers deal/It's what lovers steal/You know I've found it/Hard to receive/'Cause you, my love/I could never believe"
"Jesus, were you just around the corner?/Did you think to try and warn her?/Were you working on something new?/If there's an order in all of this disorder/Is it like a tape recorder?/Can we rewind it just once more?"
And ATYCLB gets unfairly bashed for it's lyrical content as well. Granted, Elevation is not lyrical genius, nor is Wild Honey, nor is Peace On Earth, but there are some definite "Bono" moments on that record:
"And if the night runs over/and if the day won't last/and if your way should falter/along this stoney pass/it's just a moment/this time will pass"
"Home/hard to know what it is if you've never had one/home/I can't say where it is but I know I'm going/home"
"All that you fashion/All that you make/All that you build/All that you break/All that you measure/All that you steal/All this you can leave behind"
"In summer I can taste the salt in the sea/There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze/I wonder what's gonna happen to you/
You wonder what has happened to me"
"A man dreams one day to fly/a man takes a rocket ship into the sky/he lives on a star that's dying in the night/he follows in the trail, the scatter of light"
"When the night is someone else's/and you're trying to get some sleep/and your thoughts are too expensive/to ever want to keep"
"I'm in the waiting room/can't see for the smoke/I think of you and your holy book/while the rest of us choke"
LyricalDrug said:Well, we know for a fact that Crumbs is not one of the album's best, because the band didn't want to play it live.
We know for a fact that SYCMIOYO is. When Paul McGuinness, Bono, Edge, and Steve Lillywhite say it's the best song on the album, then it's probably one of the top 3. A Grammy for Song of the Year doesn't hurt, either.
We know for a fact that Vertigo is. Hell, they were playing it TWICE at some shows, it's that good.
The third one is COBL.
Bean Skidds said:
Well thanks for setting us all straight about Crumbs, what would we do without your all-knowing wisdom and guidance
In fact Crumbs is one of the best songs on the album to me, and to a number of others. We must be "wrong", but Ill learn to live with it.