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Where I grew up there were no hills at all
The land was flat, the highway straight and wide
My brother and I, we'd drive for hours, like we'd years instead of days
Our faces as pale as the dirty snow
Once I knew there was a love divine
Then came a time I thought it knew me not
Who can forgive forgiveness when forgiveness is not?
Only the land as white as snow
And the water it was icy
As it washed over me
And the moon shined above me
Now this dry ground it bears no fruit at all
Only, under a crescent moon
The road refuses strangers
The land, the seeds we sew
Where might we find a land as white as snow?
As boys we would go hunting in the wood
To sleep, the night shun out the stars
Now the wolves are every passing stranger
Every face we cannot know
For only a heart could be as white as snow
For only a heart could be as white as snow
The land was flat, the highway straight and wide
My brother and I, we'd drive for hours, like we'd years instead of days
Our faces as pale as the dirty snow
Once I knew there was a love divine
Then came a time I thought it knew me not
Who can forgive forgiveness when forgiveness is not?
Only the land as white as snow
And the water it was icy
As it washed over me
And the moon shined above me
Now this dry ground it bears no fruit at all
Only, under a crescent moon
The road refuses strangers
The land, the seeds we sew
Where might we find a land as white as snow?
As boys we would go hunting in the wood
To sleep, the night shun out the stars
Now the wolves are every passing stranger
Every face we cannot know
For only a heart could be as white as snow
For only a heart could be as white as snow
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My old teacher (who was a huge U2-fan) told me that poppies often relates to death. I think that the sentence "Only poppies laugh under the crescent moon" means "Only the dead laugh uder the crescent moon".
The crescent moon is the symbol of Islam.
"As boys we would go hunting in the woods
To sleep the night shooting out the stars
Now the wolves are every passing stranger
Every face we cannot know" means, in my opinion, that before, we could just live out our lives, and go where we wanted, but now, everyone may be our enemies. "Now the wolves are every passing stranger".
But that's just my opinion.
Now the wolves are every passing stranger
Every face we cannot know
If only a heart could be as white as snow
Relates to Moment of Surrender on the No Line album with the eyes of the subway looking every other way. In other words, ignoring others and their pain. Everyone’s guilty of this. I ride the T (subway) every day and could care less about the people around me.
Either way, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the song has a pretty clear religious meaning... water washing over me... a lamb forgiving... I mean come on Bono's not even being as subtle as he usually is ;)
Maybe other denominations sing that song too, but I just know I recognized it immediately as a song from Catholic Mass.