Zoocifer
Acrobat
With much time to be wasted, and a bored mind to entertain - I am going to attempt to give my own lyrical explanation of one of the b-sides to the "With or Without You" single entitled "Luminous Times"
With a first listen, it is obvious that this song is a sort of ballad that doesn't come along quite often. It exist both in the personal and universal appeals with love between man and woman & love between man and God. My descriptions would probably be different if certain situations did not happen to occur during my first listens to the song.
This could be a simple song of a man singing to his love. Dark room, flickering lights, warm wind blowing through, and an old guitar. One of the few songs by any artist to truly capture the contradiction that is called Love.
She is the gun fire
She is the car crash
She is a avalanche
She is the thunder
She is the waves and
She pulls me under
Beautiful comparisons and contradictions.
Now, I've always believed that Bono slips in either one or two lines of sheer personal truth into his songs - of course what is true to him, may be false to us. But, there is one line in the song that always hits me hard :
She is the car crash
This is because a few years ago while I was listening to the song, I learned that my cousin died in a car crash. The song instantly morphed from a simple love song into a song about faith, redemption, and death.
So, the song circles around singing Sister Love, Sister Soul, etc. I've always found this interesting because I infact believe he is singing to Love - to Soul. The first verse supports this.
Hey...sister love
Hey...sister soul
Hey...oh my love
You turn me around tonight
Hey...sister love
Save my soul, save my soul
What I get from it is that when everything is gone, turning to Love (or Soul) and to admit that surrendering would be the best idea will turn things around. The song goes on stressing to "hold on to love" - once again supporting my explanation.
Finally, everyone knows that the last verse is probably one of the strongest, saddest, and deepest that Bono has ever written.
I love you 'cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you 'cause I understand
That God has given me your hand
He holds me in a tiny fist
And still I need your kiss
This finds the singer in desperation. Saying he needs Love ... he doesn't necessarily need "the one" - he just need Love. He believes in fate and he isn't going to go against it. All that is known before he has lost and now he has to have faith.
Thanks for reading this and I'd be happy to get any feedback. Again, this is just my personal explanation - not saying it's true or this is what the song is about ... it's just my point of view.
Thanks
~Zoo~
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" They had the Vision, but we had the Television " - The Edge
With a first listen, it is obvious that this song is a sort of ballad that doesn't come along quite often. It exist both in the personal and universal appeals with love between man and woman & love between man and God. My descriptions would probably be different if certain situations did not happen to occur during my first listens to the song.
This could be a simple song of a man singing to his love. Dark room, flickering lights, warm wind blowing through, and an old guitar. One of the few songs by any artist to truly capture the contradiction that is called Love.
She is the gun fire
She is the car crash
She is a avalanche
She is the thunder
She is the waves and
She pulls me under
Beautiful comparisons and contradictions.
Now, I've always believed that Bono slips in either one or two lines of sheer personal truth into his songs - of course what is true to him, may be false to us. But, there is one line in the song that always hits me hard :
She is the car crash
This is because a few years ago while I was listening to the song, I learned that my cousin died in a car crash. The song instantly morphed from a simple love song into a song about faith, redemption, and death.
So, the song circles around singing Sister Love, Sister Soul, etc. I've always found this interesting because I infact believe he is singing to Love - to Soul. The first verse supports this.
Hey...sister love
Hey...sister soul
Hey...oh my love
You turn me around tonight
Hey...sister love
Save my soul, save my soul
What I get from it is that when everything is gone, turning to Love (or Soul) and to admit that surrendering would be the best idea will turn things around. The song goes on stressing to "hold on to love" - once again supporting my explanation.
Finally, everyone knows that the last verse is probably one of the strongest, saddest, and deepest that Bono has ever written.
I love you 'cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you 'cause I understand
That God has given me your hand
He holds me in a tiny fist
And still I need your kiss
This finds the singer in desperation. Saying he needs Love ... he doesn't necessarily need "the one" - he just need Love. He believes in fate and he isn't going to go against it. All that is known before he has lost and now he has to have faith.
Thanks for reading this and I'd be happy to get any feedback. Again, this is just my personal explanation - not saying it's true or this is what the song is about ... it's just my point of view.
Thanks
~Zoo~
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" They had the Vision, but we had the Television " - The Edge