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I find Smile to be one of Bono's most personal and honest spiritual songs. I think it comes from very deep inside of him.
I will post the lyrics and then explain why I find "Smile" a spiritual song.
Gravity is not pulling me
I won't be a picture with no sign
Decaying I'm praying
You are my abbot
I need the ground to kneel upon
And love can't be your song
I don't want to see you smile
I'm breaking it taking it
I'm breaking it slowly in mind
I'm seeing it freeing it
I know love is in this soul of mine
It's not in your eyes
I don't want
I don't want to see you smile
I started light-hearted
It won't be easy like you said
I'm going flowing
I'm leaving on the day of the dead
I will never get, you will never get
I don't want to see you smile
God knows it, knows it
Knows it, knows it
You sing
Hear me love
Sing it again
Going out blind
The smoke machine is yours not mine
I don't want to see you smile
I will live again
You will live again
I just don't want to see you smile
The song says God and has a reference to prayer too. But could there be a another reference to God? Look at this, abbot (on the fourth line) means a superior man but it could also mean father, for a title of honor. Bono secretly using codes to say God to display God's beauty, I believe. Like "Yahew" in HTDAAB. He choose that word, he could of just as easily used Lord, Jesus, or another common word for God. Also in the song it says, "I will live again. You will live again, it could mean salvation.
I just love this song because Bono paints a picture of his faith life and admits it's hard to follow his faith ("It won't be easy like you said.") It's like his telling God, I don't want to you to look down and smile at me during my hard times. Just come over here and save me! Bono's honest and lovingly says he loves God but wants God to make his faithful journey a little bit more easier. I don't know, but can't other Christians or believers relate to this?
I will post the lyrics and then explain why I find "Smile" a spiritual song.
Gravity is not pulling me
I won't be a picture with no sign
Decaying I'm praying
You are my abbot
I need the ground to kneel upon
And love can't be your song
I don't want to see you smile
I'm breaking it taking it
I'm breaking it slowly in mind
I'm seeing it freeing it
I know love is in this soul of mine
It's not in your eyes
I don't want
I don't want to see you smile
I started light-hearted
It won't be easy like you said
I'm going flowing
I'm leaving on the day of the dead
I will never get, you will never get
I don't want to see you smile
God knows it, knows it
Knows it, knows it
You sing
Hear me love
Sing it again
Going out blind
The smoke machine is yours not mine
I don't want to see you smile
I will live again
You will live again
I just don't want to see you smile
The song says God and has a reference to prayer too. But could there be a another reference to God? Look at this, abbot (on the fourth line) means a superior man but it could also mean father, for a title of honor. Bono secretly using codes to say God to display God's beauty, I believe. Like "Yahew" in HTDAAB. He choose that word, he could of just as easily used Lord, Jesus, or another common word for God. Also in the song it says, "I will live again. You will live again, it could mean salvation.
I just love this song because Bono paints a picture of his faith life and admits it's hard to follow his faith ("It won't be easy like you said.") It's like his telling God, I don't want to you to look down and smile at me during my hard times. Just come over here and save me! Bono's honest and lovingly says he loves God but wants God to make his faithful journey a little bit more easier. I don't know, but can't other Christians or believers relate to this?
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