popkidu2
War Child
I'm working on a paper for my Psychological Disorders and Adaption class. This is from my chapter on Neurosis....what do you guys think?
[edit]...oh yeah, this is a rough draft so no grammer editing please...I know there are some pretty gruelling errors in there...
Sometimes I feel like I don?t know
Sometimes I feel like checking out
I wanna get it wrong
Can?t always be strong
And love it won?t be long
Oh sugar
Don?t you cry
Oh child
Wipe the tears from your eyes
You know I need you to be strong
And the day is as dark as the night is long
Feel like trash
You make me feel clean
I?m in the black
Can?t see or be seen
You bury your treasure
Where it can?t be found
But your love is like a secret
That?s been passed around
There is a silence that comes to a house
Where no one can sleep
I guess it?s the price of love
I know it?s not cheap
Baby baby baby light my way
I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When i was all messed up
And I heard opera in my head
Your love was a lightbulb
Hanging over my bed
Baby baby baby light my way
U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Achtung Baby, the music album from which the above quote was taken, has been interpreted by some as ?a man messing up his secure home life by charging out into the night?s temptations.(Flanagan, 1995, p. 20). He wanders into Nighttown, seeing exactly how far he can go while still being able to get back home. In the song quoted, (Ultraviolet) the character begs his lover forgiveness after crawling home as the sun rises.
The song could however been interpreted a completely different way. In the first verse imagine a child, knees curled up to his chest, sitting on his bed in his room. Neglected by his parents, given confusing messages, he is caught in hopelessness. He tries to hang on, even though he admits that he ?feel like checking out.? Knowing that he needs love he tries to convince himself that he soon will experiance love.
In the second verse he is barraged by the confusing world of his parents, and he lets his depression and frustration be known, admiting that ?the day is dark as the night is long.? He feels lost and invisible and searches for something, someone, to show him the way.
Seeing that no one will help guide him, no one will give him love, he decides to bury it and himself far far away where he can?t be hurt. Now buried in the depths of his psyche, the anger and hurt only come in the silence of the night when he is alone with himself.
In the last verse the child is now an adult. The repression of the hurt and anger has manifested itself in a continous line of lovers, each of whom he hopes will fill the hole he feels in himself. What he has repressed is surging up from within him. He used to feel no pain when he found lovers to fill the nights. He thought that love was just a light he could turn on and off. His hurt and anger have grown over the years. Behind the mask that he wears is a man filled with self-loathing and reproachment. Unable to love himself, he searches for love in others. Even in the midst of passion he feels empty and alone.
[This message has been edited by popkidu2 (edited 03-05-2002).]
[edit]...oh yeah, this is a rough draft so no grammer editing please...I know there are some pretty gruelling errors in there...
Sometimes I feel like I don?t know
Sometimes I feel like checking out
I wanna get it wrong
Can?t always be strong
And love it won?t be long
Oh sugar
Don?t you cry
Oh child
Wipe the tears from your eyes
You know I need you to be strong
And the day is as dark as the night is long
Feel like trash
You make me feel clean
I?m in the black
Can?t see or be seen
You bury your treasure
Where it can?t be found
But your love is like a secret
That?s been passed around
There is a silence that comes to a house
Where no one can sleep
I guess it?s the price of love
I know it?s not cheap
Baby baby baby light my way
I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When i was all messed up
And I heard opera in my head
Your love was a lightbulb
Hanging over my bed
Baby baby baby light my way
U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Achtung Baby, the music album from which the above quote was taken, has been interpreted by some as ?a man messing up his secure home life by charging out into the night?s temptations.(Flanagan, 1995, p. 20). He wanders into Nighttown, seeing exactly how far he can go while still being able to get back home. In the song quoted, (Ultraviolet) the character begs his lover forgiveness after crawling home as the sun rises.
The song could however been interpreted a completely different way. In the first verse imagine a child, knees curled up to his chest, sitting on his bed in his room. Neglected by his parents, given confusing messages, he is caught in hopelessness. He tries to hang on, even though he admits that he ?feel
In the second verse he is barraged by the confusing world of his parents, and he lets his depression and frustration be known, admiting that ?the day is dark as the night is long.? He feels lost and invisible and searches for something, someone, to show him the way.
Seeing that no one will help guide him, no one will give him love, he decides to bury it and himself far far away where he can?t be hurt. Now buried in the depths of his psyche, the anger and hurt only come in the silence of the night when he is alone with himself.
In the last verse the child is now an adult. The repression of the hurt and anger has manifested itself in a continous line of lovers, each of whom he hopes will fill the hole he feels in himself. What he has repressed is surging up from within him. He used to feel no pain when he found lovers to fill the nights. He thought that love was just a light he could turn on and off. His hurt and anger have grown over the years. Behind the mask that he wears is a man filled with self-loathing and reproachment. Unable to love himself, he searches for love in others. Even in the midst of passion he feels empty and alone.
[This message has been edited by popkidu2 (edited 03-05-2002).]