LuvandPeace1980
War Child
anyone worked out any of the lyrics yet?
From the other thread....
The future needs a big kiss
Winds blow with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it too
Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the funfair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you
Sexy boots
Get on your boots
Yeah
Free me from the dark dream
Candy bars, ice cream
All the kids are screaming but the ghosts aren’t real
Here’s what you gotta be
Love & community
Laughter is eternity if the joy is real
You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are
You don’t know
You don't get it do you
You don’t know
How beautiful you are
If someone’s into blowing up
We’re into growing up
Women are the future
All the big revelations
I’ve gotta submarine
You’ve got gasoline
I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations
Not right now
Sexy boots
Get on your boots
Yeah
Foxy boots
You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful
You are
Sexy boots
I don’t wanna talk about wars
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
My God I’m going down
I don’t wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Meet me in the sound
Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Yeah
That's a little too deep reading I think.
I think utoo is bang on the money about the gas thing.
The "sexy boots" bit is not about Saturday night fuckme boots. It's about army/fighting boots, and in kind of a sarcastic way.
A little of my take on meanings so far:
"Satan loves a bomb scare,
But he won’t scare you."
&
"If someone’s into blowing up
We’re into growing up"
= Clearly about suicide bombers. I actually hear "So he won't scare you," though I could be wrong. If that's the lyric, then it's kind of mocking suicide bombers by saying that they please Satan in order to protect themselves from him---that they think they're doing the work of God, but they're really doing it out of fear and hatred.
"I’ve gotta submarine
You’ve got gasoline
I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations"
= US to Middle East: "Hey, Middle East, buddy, pal! Gimme some of your oil so that I can power my big old submarines....I'm going to gloss over the fact that I'm going to use these submarines to blow the crap out of you."
Awesome to see some political bite back in Bono's lyrics.
I think that we've been doing Bono a disservice due to a few weak lyrics in the last few albums and assuming that everything now is at face value. Perhaps the poppiness of the song makes it easy to do that. I, however, do believe that he put some effort into it & that the song is quite political.
Also, from the other thread:
The "sexy boots" bit is not about Saturday night fuckme boots. It's about army/fighting boots, and in kind of a sarcastic way.
The irony has returned.
For this lyric:
Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you.
I think it could actually be a reference to President Bush, whose administration essentially orchestrated a bomb scare (WMD in Iraq). He/they weren't scared to use the bomb scare/playing on people's fears tactics...
What about the rest of the lines ? Only what you named specifically could be interpreted that way.
If Bono's indeed gone more political, I pray he can do better than that on the rest of NLOTH.
Nah. It's just a rollicking fun single. Nothing more, nothing less.
I think those lyrics are very political, the song is full of contradicition, like the poppy rhythm vs. the content, or the chorus with "Sexy Boots" vs. the verses with the political stuff. Utoo's analysis makes sense to me.