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Well I have a few questions actually...

First off, this is my current favorite U2 song, and I have my own idea of what this song is about, but what do you think, cause it's hard for me to get it into words....


Second, does anyone know what Bono says at the end? (and please don't say scatting :wink:)

Thank you in advance ;)
 
this is also one of my u2 faves, and i've always just thought of it as a sort of bleak way of looking at the world... how messed up things are and how we need help so badly. it seems like god might have turned his back on us when we need him the most.

as for the end of the song, i've always been wondering about that too - especially since what he sings sounds different at the end of all of the versions... i personally prefer the version that was released as a single when you can clearly hear him sing, 'and i don't have to know how... and i don't need to know why.... and i don't wanna promise 'cause i don't wanna lie.' but that same part in the other versions is unclear to me, as is what he sings after that....
 
I love this song, but you really should listen to the single version if someone will give it to you. (I would, but I don't have it in an mp3, only on dvd, so anyone who wants to send it to me as well would be thanked eternally.)

As to what the songs actually about, I'm not sure really. I've heard theories that say its about a guy beating up on his girlfriend because she believes in God, and he thinks that God is not really around.
This makes the chorus a kind of sarcastic line. "If god will send his angels, sure could use them here right now."
 
According to U2Wanderer.org:

And I might not want my life
I want my lover feel my soul
And I want my love and I
And I want to feel alone


As for the song itself, I love it.
Bono said somewhere that it was a guy beating up his girlfriend, and you can kind of see that in the lyrics.
More so though, I think it's mostly about the bleakness of the world we live in. There also seems to be a theme going about the commercialism of Christmas, and how no one remembers the true meaning of it anymore.
 
I guess the fighting makes sense, but It always seemed to me like the girl did something to him, not him doing something to her. But the last verse, the "but now it's hard to get in the door" one...that one seems to me to have a lot to do with people making you belive that you have to do so much more in order to be a Christian, like donating money and such, when all you need to do is ask and believe...anyway that's kinda how I feel...

I would love to hear the single version, I didn't realize it was different,

Thank you DreamOutLoud for those lyrics, they do sound like they would fit...
 
if anyone wants to hear the single version, i can upload it and either email it to you or post it here (if that's not against the rules... i'm not really sure).
 
Thank you! I have heard it before, and I love it like a child, but before I could only listen to it by putting on the best of dvd.
 
bono_212 said:
I guess the fighting makes sense, but It always seemed to me like the girl did something to him, not him doing something to her.
I could see where you could get that impression from the first two verses. But in my mind, I always interpreted it as the guy manipulating the woman into believing she had done something wrong, as his excuse for beating her.
 
Ugh now i"m sad...I like that song so much, but it's hard for me to like it if that's the reasoning behind it, unless it's got more to it in the end or somethin...but I just don't like to think on that subject much.
 
Ok
here's another thing

At first I thought I was imagining it...but now i've heard it like 20 times....

Right before the line God's got his phone off the hook babe, does anyone else hear a voice in the background?

Please please please do not tell me I' mosing my mind...that's the last thing I need right now :lol:
 
Bono once described this song as an argument between a believer and non-believer. The believer was the music and the non-believer was the vocal.
 
bono_212 said:
Ok
here's another thing

At first I thought I was imagining it...but now i've heard it like 20 times....

Right before the line God's got his phone off the hook babe, does anyone else hear a voice in the background?

Please please please do not tell me I' mosing my mind...that's the last thing I need right now :lol:
I've always noticed it, and have just written it off as another one of those weird "ghosts" that live in the background of U2 songs.
 
I ahve never really thought about the lyrics that much except the "Jesus never let me down" part, to me it sounds like how faith and religion are different, religion being "showbizness". Well that's just how I see it, and it kind of made me notice, you could have faith without religion
 
Irishteen said:
I ahve never really thought about the lyrics that much except the "Jesus never let me down" part, to me it sounds like how faith and religion are different, religion being "showbizness". Well that's just how I see it, and it kind of made me notice, you could have faith without religion

That's very true... And we all know that many world conflicts exist because of religion. God would never want that.
 
Irishteen said:
... you could have faith without religion


Great words!!!! If this these are not already.., they need to be song lyrics!
 
bono_212 said:
Ok
here's another thing

At first I thought I was imagining it...but now i've heard it like 20 times....

Right before the line God's got his phone off the hook babe, does anyone else hear a voice in the background?

Please please please do not tell me I' mosing my mind...that's the last thing I need right now :lol:

You can actually hear it throughout the song after the lead guitar comes in, it is just really low in the mix, and it is most notible at that mark. It could be a voice, with a phaser, flanger, wah effect, or it could be a guitar with those effects. You'd be surprised how many tricks they can come up with in the studio, they can mask just about anything.
 
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