I'm guessing, and if I know how Bono's imagination works, that he read the news on July 7, 2005... like he did on April 4... and many other days.
July 7, 2005 – London - a coordinated attack using subway trains and a double decker bus. Liverpool St and Edgware Road.. and one of the trains was traveling from King's Cross St. to Russel Square – with the gardens and the college. The bus had also passed through King's Cross and has an 'us and them' vibe built into the 2 levels.. bombs go off and now your world as you knew it isn't there (anymore)..
Bono conflates the data.. flips it around.. and paints by numbers the world he wants to see – which is a light somewhere underneath all of the darkness. And the resulting painting looks like a coordinated effort, using the weapon of surrender, and a trip from the garden to the king's cross. Knowing that the world would never be the same.
And that was the point with the Aaron Brown thing I'd say.. a star running back down that ol' eight lane in the ford bronco vs. someone comes running back on a white horse... O.J. is more than a drink.. look past the darkness and you can fight to find the light and not let it go out. You've read the script and the movie is playing out... this is the sign.. this is the season. This is what I'm hearing myself say. Something is getting released in October.. 'Songs of Experience' maybe..
And so Willie Williams.. same as Zoo Tv then. What I thought was really great was the encore – the yellow neon and the bright white light bars flipped up into a new configuration. I knew I'd seen it somewhere before and then it landed on me.. Back to the Future 2 – the future Hilldale. The futuristic neighborhood...
So, after spending 2 and a half hours in the “past”, U2 ends up where they never left and back in the future at the end of the show. And now you can factor in Biff.. who was based on a caricature of Trump. Bono's blond dye-job was looking a little Trumpish during the 'innocence' phase.. and things would soon be conflating with ZooTv.. Michael J. McFly and Donald J. Trump, singin' “We will rock you”... that I can tell you..