ShellBeThere
War Child
elfyx said:I think there are so many interpretations of this song because its direction changes and is many layered. I feel it switches from temptations of a rock star, to war, back to sex, then on to other things. Add to that some ambiguity and great writing to the lyrics and it's almost like you are surrounded by a whirlpool of chaos, a jungle of mind with you in the center- suffering from full on Vertigo (which the music induces to full effect, from the syncopation to the effects).
Interestingly there sounds like there are two main guitar styles here: the aggressive, vertigo-inducing one and then the classic old-school sound. Vertigo-guitar and Salvation-guitar.
Bono's lyrical style during the verses is his Vertigo-lyrics (with run-ins and trip-ups like the jungle is / your head / can't rule your heart) while the "your love is teaching me" parts are the salvation-lyrics. And of course, love, humility, are the salvation- the way to center yourself from all the unbalanced energies out in the world and in our heads these days.
Of course Vertigo ends with both guitars playing over top of each other, hinting that the song hasn't resolved anything yet. It has firmly acknowledged the Vertigo as well as love's salvation, grace, and glory all of which leads you straight into.. Miracle Drug.
Can't wait to hear that one!
Oh my you guys are all great but I especially loved this one!
I'm gonna just lose my mind when we get Vertigo *followed" by Miracle Drug ...*followed* by...
I wasn't into the whole vertigo-as-message-to-fans idea, but I'm feeling more and more that even this first track is quite personal, as in this-is-what-it's-like-to-be-ME-up-there...
no wonder edge just hopes to avoid puking before doing that deal. I bet they didn't eat all that well when they were laying down some of these tracks either
they're clearly not hungry, they're asking for the check ( i keep hearing 'feast' instead of 'beats' somehow)
maybe that's why I was having this urge to breastfeed when I was first listening to vertigo...I was trying to stop myself and the boys from a nauseating fall into the void and to instead touch that salvation vibe! Bono even gets this baby-crying thing in the ho-ow-ow-ow-ow vocals...yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah! God almighty, that's it! I just can't stop being blown away by this song...it is the mother of all rock songs
it is the mother of all rock songs
it is the mother of all rock songs...
(i'll be mumbling this shortly as they take me away in a straightjacket)
I'm gonna have to have another baby now I think..
If they have tracks on this album that make that vibe happen I'm gonna be so fucking thrilled!!
I don't know all that the realdetail people know, but A Man & A Woman sounds promising on that count!!!!
And wasn't Edge's rhetoric on here about tracks having babies?!
My heads gonna explode again...
I'm just not reading very much sexual temptation in Vertigo though, to try and wade my way back to where elfyx was; power sure but I don't get a sex vibe at all.
it's too immaterial. head and heart don't evoke sex to me like skin and clothes all thru AB lyrics did (I'm talking out my bum here o'course, but just flashing on the hunter will sin for your ivory skin and see-thru dresses and such)...
Okay, I really need to stop coming here for a while..
many cheers all!
rock on!!
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