If you shout... said:
Regardless, I now can't help but wonder if God wears lemon....?
that's brilliant.
Okay, I know no one cares, but I just want to gush over Yahweh some more... when I posted before I really liked it, but it wasn't nessecarily up there as one of my faovurites, and I believe I rated it an 8/10 on my review in another thread... however now I've changed my mind. This song deserves a strong 10/10.
I was listening to Yahweh today on the bus home from school, and toward the end, when the "whoooooah-whooooah-whoooooooah-whooooah-whooooooooooooooooooooooah's" started, I looked out the window and there was this HUGE flock of birds, flying in sort of a circle, the sky with a slight orange tint as the sun was beginning to set... and I remember being just completely breathtaken. It was a perfect moment...and I thought "this must be a sign from God." Now, I'm not a religious person in the slightest... it's a long story but basically my mom went crazy (she was bipolar and undiagnosed at the time, no one knew), thought God was talking to her, all this crap...it was a wild time in my life, and for awhile I really did believe, 'cause there were so many coincidences and I guess it maybe seemed real... people were calling her crazy, my dad wanted to take me away from her, she was in the mental hospital for awhile... once I believed, though there was always doubt in my mind, I didn't want to not believe anymore... but in the end I just broke down and cried for hours on my dad and stepmom's shoulders, and I
hate crying in front of others. I feel so weak. I remember listening to Wake Up Dead Man on repeat, because it fit my feelings so perfectly. If there was a God, why the hell did he allow this to happen? My faith had left me. I felt like such an idiot after all that happened, for actually believing for awhile... that led to a downward spiral where I did some things I really shouldn't have. I was really lost there for awhile and I've got the scars to prove it, but I got better... never recovered my faith though, from then on I basically avoided thinking about it altogether. Yet at that moment, when I was listening to Yahweh and looked up at the sky, I thought of God. And again when I was lying with my little brother and sister, I reflected on it... and for a second there I think I really believed again. For something to make me even CONSIDER the question of God and such is quite a feat... even if it's just in passing, though now the question is in my mind again. All thanks to Yahweh... what a beautiful, brilliant, wonderful, spritiual, strong song. Thank you Bono, Edge, Adam, and Larry.
sorry, didn't mean to go off on a LJ-style rant or tell my whole life story or something...I dunno...I just started typing and it all came out. Stuff I haven't had the guts to say in a long time. So...uh...yeah, Yahweh's a good song.