I don't know why, but Wire has always scared me a little. I remember reading an interview Bono did sometime between UF and JT where he says he "did give into some rock and roll excesses" in that period. It may have been with Bill Flanagan, I don't know. But maybe becuase of the man/woman "chorus" at the end (just after Bono goes, "Kiss me"), or the lyrics "Cold these eyes I can't believe it..so deep inside her, cold fire" (maybe? This is one of those "Irish accent" things where you misinterpret the lyrics I've had so much fun with over the yrs) the song to me has an undeniable air of sexual menace. Bono's comments in Time in 87 about "when she's at home, I'm not at home. When I'm home, she's not at home" etc.
I always have a mental image during this song of Bono and Ali running into each other in their "little round tower" of the period...just opening 2 opposite doors and just standing there and staring at each other, and their bed nearby...they haven't seen each other in days...it's night and there's a wind blowing the curtains and blue shadows ripple along the wall, and something unspoken crackling in the air. Some undercurrent of anger , which can only end in sexual confrontation. (I've learned much of relationships since then!)WOWY may have also been born out of this. Anybody ever just THINK about the lyrics of WOWY? Spooky at one level huh?
What amazes me is that Bono can see so much into how relationships go bad in so many tunes, and how his remains prabably the strongest in show biz. Marriage is always something you have to work at, but how he can capture frustration and occasionally a sense of despair. It couldn't all be Edge's life over the yrs!
