I LIKE "Crumbs From Your Table." I certainly don't love it, and I certainly don't hate it. I think that it's a decent song.
At the same time, though, I must point out that I think it could have been a truly great song for me. I really love the way the song starts off (lyrically, especially), and the overall sound and structure of the song are solid enough for me. It's predictable, yeah...but it's very well-done, etc. I just CANNOT STAND (and I've said this many times...broken record...) the final verse of the song. I just think that songs--and art in general, really--work a lot better when they're not in-your-face with what they're trying to say...if, of course, they're trying to say anything. "Crumbs..." obviously is.
I feel that the song would be far more powerful and effective and...poetic, I guess...were that last concrete verse not in there. Bono doesn't sing it on the DVD, and I hope that we can look forward to similar live versions, in the future. Without that verse, the song is still about Africa and AIDS and so forth...but it can also be about a lover, a family member, a friend...shit, it could even be about a bank, man! With that verse, the song can only be one thing...for me, that's a loss.