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War Child
this has grown to be one of my favorites from SOI, and I think it will sound AWESOME live! I think it would be a great opener as well.
"long before the night the stars went out we're meeting up again" sounds like pre-Joshua Tree Bono. It's amazing how he sings that line and how it takes me back to those older albums.
This has easily been the best song on SOI from the beginning. It's a classic to me.
For me it's that's last verse, iris playing on the strand, she buy's a boy beneath the sand, iris says that i will be the death of her, it was not me.
Tear in my eye every time I hear that.
Me tooFor me it's that's last verse, iris playing on the strand, she buy's a boy beneath the sand, iris says that i will be the death of her, it was not me.
Tear in my eye every time I hear that.
"long before the night the stars went out we're meeting up again"
Not to be the spell police but I think you of course meant buries.
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This is definitely my favourite song of Songs Of Innocence. And it's funny. I keep on bitching about how U2 has entered a stagnation mode in terms of creativity, some sotr of self-revival mode. However, my favourite song of the album is the biggest pastiche of the whole record. There's no other song that has so much U2-by-the-number factor than "Iris".
But, as much as sonically it evoques to me "Streets", "Magnificent", "City Of Blinding Lights", "ASort Of Homecoming" (most The Unforgettable Fire to be honest) I can't really dislike this song. I can't. And most of that because of Bono. Despite being of my least favourite albums for now, I have to say that Songs Of Innocence has some of Bono's best lyrical moments and cohesion in ages and ages. And "Iris" is a great example of it.
The lyrics seem to be quite simple, with simple imagetics, with Bono bringing his mother's death theme for the umpteenth time (but many of Bono's best lyrics are related with this theme) and using the also simple technique of linking it with a love affair (I assume it's Ali) and with the "spirituality vs universe/cosmos" theme. But it really works. And images like imagining a young Bono wishing his dead mother to "hold him close" again or imagining the spirit of his mother talking to him, it's really haunting but in a comforting way. I really like it.
And then thinking that the album was unveiled in the 40th anniversary of Iris... I was missing for a long time this kind of mystique around U2.
Honorable mention to Adam which is playing really in this track.
For as many times Bono has referenced the death of his mother there is resolution in this song . "the death of her it was not me"
In this song Bono admits and unveils. U2 was never political or social driven. U2 has always been about Bono's loss. Now that he has come to terms with that loss even though there never will be cloture he has found a way to move on to something else...maybe that's what songs of experience will be.
I agree with this. I think that "Iris" just overtook "Mofo" in being the definitive song about this subject, because this lyric sounds as a Bono who's finally mourn although never overcoming it, because as you said U2 is - more than politics and so - about that subject, about that substance.
This song has vaulted to the top 5 for me just recently. The lyrics alone make it a great song, particularly those last lines. Bass line is tremendous too.
Best song on the record.
yep. This song, Reach Around, The Troubles, Crystal Ballroom, and acoustic EBW will probably all end up as all time classics for me personally.
yep. This song, Reach Around, The Troubles, Crystal Ballroom, and acoustic EBW will probably all end up as all time classics for me personally.