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Originally posted by popsadie:
Lyrics to discotheque-
You can reach, but you can't grab it
You can't hold it, control it, you can't bag it
You can push, but you can't direct it
Circulate, regulate, oh no, you cannot connect it
You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is, but you still want some
You just can't get enough of that lovie dovie stuff
You get confused, but you know it
Yeh you hurt for it, work for it, LOVE
You don't always show it
LET GO, LET'S GO, DISCOTHEQUE
GO GO LET GO DISCOTHEQUE
Looking for the one
But you know you're somewhere else instead
You want to be the song
The song that you hear in your head
you want heaven, heaven in your heart..
you want heaven, heaven in your heart..
It's no trick, you can't learn it
It's the way you don't pay, that's okay
'Cos you can't earn it
You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is, but you still want some
You just can't get enough of that lovie dovie stuff
LET GO, LET'S GO ... DISCOTHEQUE
GO GO ... LET GO ... DISCOTHEQUE
Looking for the one
But you know you're somewhere else instead
I want to be the song
The song that you hear in your head
But you take what you can get
'Cause it's all that you can find
Oh you know there's something more
But tonight, tonight, tonight
BOOM CHA
BOOM CHA
DISCOTHEQUE
I can't get in, I paid..it's not enough
I can't get in, I paid..it's not enough
I can see a possible religious interp to this song, especially set in the context of the album. Taken in this way, the chewing bubble gum part could refer to the fake high and love from the dance scene, and especially ecstacy. "You want heaven in your heart" "it's no trick, you can't learn it, it's the way you don't pay, that's ok cause you can't earn it" "I can't get in, I paid..it's not enough"...these are a few lyrics in the song that lead me to believe it could have a religious interp..
What a reach. The song has nothing to do w/ God. You people think everything Bono writes is about God. Many songs are but not Disco. Someone earlier wrote Promonade was about God. Reading the lyrics you might think that. But, Bono was quoted as saying it was written from inside a round house he had near a boardwalk or beach. It was a holiday and people were shooting fireworks. He just wrote about what he saw looking out the window. The house had a spiral staircase leading up to the bedroom. Hence the lyric "up the spiral staircase to the higher ground".