Vertigo: BOMB ALARM?

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victor_f

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Go to 1m44sec - Is that a bomb alarm?

About Bomb alarms, I've heard something during the war that in Bagdad (Iraq) there was an alarm when bombs were about to be hit the city.
 
Oh yeah, that's cool...

I've listened to that part a gazillion times now, as part of the whole deal, but now having seen that the lyric there allegedly (still can't hear it well!) is stuff like "..shots are falling' etc

and loved that rising shriek-y sound, but yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...a bomb alarm.

cheers!
 
I definitely think it is a bomb / warning siren. Bono sings something like:

Shot dead
Shots fall
Show me now, yeah

It just makes so much sense in the context of the song.
 
Reminds me of the supposed similarities with Edge's opening riff in EBTTRT and the door-closing alarms on the subways leaving Zoo Station in Berlin.
 
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