| Bob Dylan – Lenny Bruce Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Apologies - the lyric was indeed correct - something new I've learned about the song. | |
| Bob Dylan – Lenny Bruce Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the third line is "Never made it to cinema". Truly a brilliant song. |
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| U2 – The First Time Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| SarahBeth - what a wonderful interpretation. I've a feeling you might be on to something there - even if it might not have been Bono's intention when he wrote it. | |
| U2 – Stranger In A Strange Land Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think the line after "He looked like you from across the street" is actually "But that's a long way here", which seems a clever way of encapsulating a divided community where a short physical distance hides a wider gulf of some kind. To reflect what earlier posters said, that was definitely the case in both Belfast and Berlin in 1981. | |
| U2 – If God Will Send His Angels Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I read at the time that Pop was an album where the band really ran up against a release deadline and ended up with versions of some songs that they were not entirely happy with. With the later release of singles they had the chance to revisit a few of the songs and rework them a bit. In the single version of If God Will Send His Angels the ending has changed with the following lines that immediately follow after the line "Sure could use them here right now" "And I don't have to know how And I don't have to know why I don't want to promise Because I don't want to lie Just want to meet you, tonight." It's an amazing journey from the first line of the song. |
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| U2 – Miss Sarajevo Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A couple of quick lyric corrections: "...RUN FOR cover"; "turn TO Mecca". I always thought the line "different names you find it hard to spell" is a great way of evoking cultural difference - although it also works as a reference to fashion labels etc. In a Vertigo Tour live version of this song some lyrics were altered as follows: "Is there a time for first Communion? Is there a time for Synagogue? Is there a time to turn to Mecca? Beauty queen before God" |
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| U2 – Dirty Day Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I've found these comments really helpful. For some reason I always interpreted this song a bit more politically - still about a father son relationship but also about how those of us who look at difficult periods of recent history from the outside are "looking for explanations" while those caught up in them are the first to admit that they "don't even understand", and to warn that "nothing's as simple as you think". "You can't even remember what I'm trying to forget". On the page of the Zooropa album booklet where the Dirty Day lyrics are printed are the words "Nie Wieder" (Never again) which I always took to be a direct reference to the Nazi period but could perhaps apply to more recent painful periods like the Troubles or the contemporary (to Zooropa) war in Bosnia and Croatia. These kind of father son conversations about what happened during those dark periods are happening now. | |
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