Ultraviolet...
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SkeeK
The Original, Rock n' Roll Doggie, VIP PASS
Well. There was this one time before I asked out my current girlfriend, but I was pretty sure I liked her a lot, and I thought she liked me too, I was just an idiot and all worried and too afraid of being completely lame to go as far as to ask her out.. (I was an idiot). So anyway, she was in my drama class and we put on a big drama show and on opening night, for whatever reason we never really ended up talking (which we usually did) and then afterwards I wanted to go over and talk to her a lot, but I was feeling sorta detached from myself, 'out of it' you might say so i just sort of stood there for a while and then went home. and then i started feeling so incredibly lame, and i had this weird feeling come over to me and I don't remember if I intentionally put on Ultraviolet, or if it just came on randomly... but somehow it seemed like it was speaking to me directly and just exemplifying everything I was feeling. I don't know if it was the lyrics or what, I mean I've never given much thought to what they mean... I just turned it up really loud and closed my eyes, and felt profoundly moved. I dunno if I'm gonna forget that.
HelloAngel
ONE love, blood, life
Ultraviolet takes on many meanings for me depending on my current mood or situation -
sometimes it resembles a bad hangover
sometimes it's an intermidable argument with someone
and sometimes it just being passionately in love
I love that song.
sometimes it resembles a bad hangover
sometimes it's an intermidable argument with someone
and sometimes it just being passionately in love
I love that song.
Jayhawk
The Fly
baby baby baby
light my way
light my way
candyfloss
The Fly
Ultraviolet had always been one of my favorite songs from Achtung Baby. But late one night I was listening to a college radio station and the DJ played Ultraviolet and dedicated it to a friend who had died. Now when I hear the song I think of that, and for whatever reason the song means a lot more to me.
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This song is very encouraging. At sometime or another, we have all had major problems and we have felt like the first verse, we want to be "checkin out". The quiet synth sound is how we feel, empty and running out of time. When we are at the lowest point that we can go, there is something or someone that brings us comfort. This is just like when the song comes in, a warm comforting wave.
When we talk to someone about our problems, they tell us comforting things: "Oh sugar don't you cry, oh child wipe the tears from your eyes..."
We find out that this person is also human and has problems too, and they need us as much as we need them: "...you know i need you to be strong when 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..."
Then the main feeling of everyone is that we need to help each other through life's problems: "baby baby baby light my way..."
Another lyric that stands out in the song is that friends have helped each other out in the past and this will continue into the future: "i remember when we could sleep on stones...now we lie together in whispers and moans...when i was all messed up and i had opera in my head...your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed..."
So, i find Ultraviolet very comforting when i am down. It's like Bono is talking to me and comforting me.
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"Yep...Silver and Gold!!!" - Bono
We'll Shine Like Stars In The Summer Nights...
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When we talk to someone about our problems, they tell us comforting things: "Oh sugar don't you cry, oh child wipe the tears from your eyes..."
We find out that this person is also human and has problems too, and they need us as much as we need them: "...you know i need you to be strong when 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..."
Then the main feeling of everyone is that we need to help each other through life's problems: "baby baby baby light my way..."
Another lyric that stands out in the song is that friends have helped each other out in the past and this will continue into the future: "i remember when we could sleep on stones...now we lie together in whispers and moans...when i was all messed up and i had opera in my head...your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed..."
So, i find Ultraviolet very comforting when i am down. It's like Bono is talking to me and comforting me.
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"Yep...Silver and Gold!!!" - Bono
We'll Shine Like Stars In The Summer Nights...
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spanisheyes
Forum Moderator, The Goal Is Soul
Hello Lemonator...I usually don't do this, meaning bring back things that have been written before, but I wrote this awhile back in the forum about Ultraviolet, and I thought you might enjoy it if you missed it the first time...
The other morning while all alone at home, and playing Achtung Baby very, very loud (which, by the way, is the only way to play U2) I was playing just 3 song before heading out to work: Zoo Station, Ultraviolet (Light My Way), and Acrobat. Before the beginning of Ultraviolet begin to reveberate through my speakers, I closed my eyes and experienced something I'd never experienced before, a visual imagery, that made this song even more powerful than it has always been for me. At the moment I closed my eyes, I imagined myself in a dark, callous room, and all around I felt the presence of people, but they didn't speak, and yet, I felt their words, words of jealously, words of rejection, and it tore at the core of my being. At the same time gorgeous strings began to play and grow in intensity, and suddenly, a beautiful voice, like the voice of an angel begin to sing these word, which confused me at first because the words seemed foreign, but then the reality hit me that the words that were being sung were coming from somewhere deep inside of me...
"Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checkin' out
I want to get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love it won't be long..."
I felt ashamed, and yet defensive at the hearing of these words, and yet they haunted me, and it was at this moment that I no longer felt the strong presence of many, but only one, moving mysteriously through the others, and I knew instantly that it was the presence of a woman, a lover, a wife...and even though I couldn't see her, I felt her tears sting me, her hurt pierce me. Then suddenly, and with out warning, a bombastic symphony of instruments crashed my awful reality, and my heart started to resonate these balming words...
"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"
Immediately upon ending, a breath of love fell on my face, as the presence of the lover grew ever closer, and why would I know it to be love, because the fear and shame I felt all at once begin to subside as her breath matched the warmth of her touch against my hand...again a voice deep inside of me whispered...
"Baby, baby, baby...light my way
(alright now)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
As she faced me, and still too dark to see, she took her other hand and begin to lightly run it against my face, tenderly, almost maternal in its desire to communicate to my wounded, restless spirit. She knew I knew her story, that her once hurts had long ago surrendered to love, and so again I felt this need to express myself, all the while these alluring rhythms and seductive, warm beats carried me...
"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"
I extended my hands in a pleading manner, the overwhelming sense that I needed the illumination she was offering, to see things more clearly, to escape the reasoning that had brought me to this dark place, a place to which I had become so accustomed to...
"(oh, come on)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way
(oh, come on)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
How easy it seems to sing these words, to sing of something so familiar, something in front of me...but what did I mean "that she buries her treasure, where it can't be found...were these words the mirror translucent...revealing the need for illumination beyond the visible, in the secret places that speak to me of tearing myself in two...an illumination that seers into my consciousness that to tear myself in two is to also tear my lover from our oneness...
"Oh...ultraviolet...
Ultraviolet...
Ultraviolet...
Ultraviolet...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
Her touch also light my subconscious with memories of uninhibited days and nights, unended moments and lingered times when nothing could tear us apart, when I felt safe in her...even when I didn't feel safe living in me...
"I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed"
Where do we go from here, did I really go anywhere, did I make promises without the understanding what light can consistently bring to the surface, and not just light, but ultraviolet light...in my mind I have gone a thousand places, some beautiful, some dangerously close to loosing it all...but she takes me by the hand and we tread again on this promise land, not because I need to, but simply because I need her...like today, "when I'm in the black, can't see or be seen."...
"Baby, baby, baby...light my way
(oh, come on)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way
Ultraviolet...
Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
Opening my eyes...the calming sound of The Edge, Larry, and Adam's instruments lingering in my head wake me back to reality...and that angelic voice screaming for redemption is no longer at a crossroads, the bridge has been crossed, but has it been burned by the fires of love?, time will tell...and her?...she is still moving in mysterious ways in me, through me, all around me.
Chris
The other morning while all alone at home, and playing Achtung Baby very, very loud (which, by the way, is the only way to play U2) I was playing just 3 song before heading out to work: Zoo Station, Ultraviolet (Light My Way), and Acrobat. Before the beginning of Ultraviolet begin to reveberate through my speakers, I closed my eyes and experienced something I'd never experienced before, a visual imagery, that made this song even more powerful than it has always been for me. At the moment I closed my eyes, I imagined myself in a dark, callous room, and all around I felt the presence of people, but they didn't speak, and yet, I felt their words, words of jealously, words of rejection, and it tore at the core of my being. At the same time gorgeous strings began to play and grow in intensity, and suddenly, a beautiful voice, like the voice of an angel begin to sing these word, which confused me at first because the words seemed foreign, but then the reality hit me that the words that were being sung were coming from somewhere deep inside of me...
"Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checkin' out
I want to get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love it won't be long..."
I felt ashamed, and yet defensive at the hearing of these words, and yet they haunted me, and it was at this moment that I no longer felt the strong presence of many, but only one, moving mysteriously through the others, and I knew instantly that it was the presence of a woman, a lover, a wife...and even though I couldn't see her, I felt her tears sting me, her hurt pierce me. Then suddenly, and with out warning, a bombastic symphony of instruments crashed my awful reality, and my heart started to resonate these balming words...
"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"
Immediately upon ending, a breath of love fell on my face, as the presence of the lover grew ever closer, and why would I know it to be love, because the fear and shame I felt all at once begin to subside as her breath matched the warmth of her touch against my hand...again a voice deep inside of me whispered...
"Baby, baby, baby...light my way
(alright now)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
As she faced me, and still too dark to see, she took her other hand and begin to lightly run it against my face, tenderly, almost maternal in its desire to communicate to my wounded, restless spirit. She knew I knew her story, that her once hurts had long ago surrendered to love, and so again I felt this need to express myself, all the while these alluring rhythms and seductive, warm beats carried me...
"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"
I extended my hands in a pleading manner, the overwhelming sense that I needed the illumination she was offering, to see things more clearly, to escape the reasoning that had brought me to this dark place, a place to which I had become so accustomed to...
"(oh, come on)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way
(oh, come on)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
How easy it seems to sing these words, to sing of something so familiar, something in front of me...but what did I mean "that she buries her treasure, where it can't be found...were these words the mirror translucent...revealing the need for illumination beyond the visible, in the secret places that speak to me of tearing myself in two...an illumination that seers into my consciousness that to tear myself in two is to also tear my lover from our oneness...
"Oh...ultraviolet...
Ultraviolet...
Ultraviolet...
Ultraviolet...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
Her touch also light my subconscious with memories of uninhibited days and nights, unended moments and lingered times when nothing could tear us apart, when I felt safe in her...even when I didn't feel safe living in me...
"I remember
When we could sleep on stones
Now we lie together
In whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed"
Where do we go from here, did I really go anywhere, did I make promises without the understanding what light can consistently bring to the surface, and not just light, but ultraviolet light...in my mind I have gone a thousand places, some beautiful, some dangerously close to loosing it all...but she takes me by the hand and we tread again on this promise land, not because I need to, but simply because I need her...like today, "when I'm in the black, can't see or be seen."...
"Baby, baby, baby...light my way
(oh, come on)
Baby, baby, baby...light my way
Ultraviolet...
Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...
Baby, baby, baby...light my way
Baby, baby, baby...light my way"
Opening my eyes...the calming sound of The Edge, Larry, and Adam's instruments lingering in my head wake me back to reality...and that angelic voice screaming for redemption is no longer at a crossroads, the bridge has been crossed, but has it been burned by the fires of love?, time will tell...and her?...she is still moving in mysterious ways in me, through me, all around me.
Chris
UV2001
War Child
Yeah. I had taken a couple of pain killers and washed them down with some alcohol. I wasn't trying to top myself may I just add (I did have a history of that though because I had depression a while back) but I had got really angry and upset and wanted to trash everything etc and I felt I was totally out of control and wanted to calm down so I took them. I told my friend and she told me to listen to Ultraviolet because she thought I was trying to kill myself or atleast thinking about it. It's weird because Achtung Baby was the first U2 album I bought about 1 1/2 years ago and it was because of that song because ultraviolet was my user name on alot of things and email address and all that and I thought it was so cool there was a song called Ultraviolet. If I had bought a less strong album as my first I might never have got into U2 the way I did so that song is a really positive one for me both because it got me really into U2 and because of the other situation. It actually did make me feel better
Salome
you are what you is
perhaps my least favorite U2 songs
does about nothing to me
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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it
does about nothing to me
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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it
madonna's child
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
It's as close to a love song as U2 gets. It's romantic, but not sappy. I think it's about survival as an individual, and in that, learning to survive with those around you.
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Mr EDGE
The Fly
It sounds very emotional to me ultra violet
just the guitar sounds and the lyrics.
It`s a lot like lady with the spinning head,Where the streets have no name, and pride. They are my favorites.
just the guitar sounds and the lyrics.
It`s a lot like lady with the spinning head,Where the streets have no name, and pride. They are my favorites.
She Is Raging
Refugee
This is probably my favorite U2 song...
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Holy Jesus, Holy rock and roll...
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