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War Child
The lyrics although beautiful I could never understand fully ?
U2girl said:One interpretation is also it's about terrorism in N. Ireland, if you listen at the start you'll hear a drum rhythm similar to a (bomb) clock ticking and the lyrics make sense too.
HelloAngel said:I've never noticed the N.Ireland theme because of the dramatic "end of a relationship" tones throughout the album...
"Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness"
This feels like a description about the binds of a relationship breaking. You "tie the knot" when you get married, and this knot here is slipping.
"A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense"
This feels like the description of the relationship's death rattle. "Baby a dangerous idea that almost makes sense" almost felt to me like Bono describing divorce.
"Take the money
Honey"
This sounds like alimony or similar money exchange.
As my parents were going thru a terrible divorce at the time this song came out, it really pained me to listen to it. But this N.Ireland theory is very meaty and very involved!
VertigoGal said:Again, it can also be applied to a relationship (that's the analogy being drawn here in the first place!), but I'm pretty sure terrorism was what Bono actually wrote the song about.
ThatGuy said:
Why can't it be about both?
MrBrau1 said:The terrorism idea really fits. Prior posts already reference they lyric. Also, the idea, someone is doing something for "love of country" and is blind to the reality of what they've done, a fanatic.
flameandthefire said:Where is the anger in this song?
Why does the song start with funeral organ and ends to a funeral organ? Because in the beginning of the song someone has lost his/her life and there's a funeral and at the end of the song there is another funeral.
Axver said:
I think the verse that seals the deal is "In a parked car, in a crowded street/You see your love made complete." There's no way that could be about anything other than a car bombing.
Axver said:Where is the anger in Please? Where is the anger in Peace On Earth?