| U2 – A Sort Of Homecoming Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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I think it's difficult to parse this song out from the entire Unforgettable Fire album -- which is a thematic album (not a concept album but thematic) that is basically about the "Four Loves" (see CS Lewis, who Bono was reading quite a lot of then). The "fire" is love -- the album then explores the various loves -- and the good and bad that can come of each. A Sort of Homecoming is basically a song about "storge" or the love one feels for familiarity (home, family, etc) and when the source of that storge is no longer there (think Bono's mom passing). Even though the home is not really there anymore, the narrator is somewhat comforted by the fact that he is there -- hence A SORT of homecoming. |
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| U2 – One Tree Hill Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Like almost all U2 songs, this song is about an emotion rather than something specific. Just like Pride is not ABOUT Martin Luther King Jr (rather, inspired by him), One Tree Hill is not ABOUT Greg Carrol\'s death, it was inspired by it. I imagine, since most U2 songs hearken back to Bono\'s loss of his mother, this is also an inspiration. To me, the song is an emotional response to unexpected loss and the loneliness that follows -- hence the title, the desert, and a lot of the theme of this amazing album. | |
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