wernerkoek makes a great point actually. Bono purposely constructs and uses imagery of a woman (much like in Proverbs when wisdom is described as a woman) to convey an accessible (well, to some anyhow) image of what "grace" looks like. true, it's not everyone's cup of tea but generally in a pseudo-Christian world it's increasingly hard to fathom what practical grace would look like. I think the usage of feminine qualities in the construction of so-called "Christian" themes throughout U2's songwriting features heavily (think "mysterious ways" etc), and it's worth a shot reinterpreting many of their supposed simple love songs as having a deeper connotation? again Bono really is obsessed with the idea of grace and u will find that it influences his songwriting as far back as the "Boy" cd.
and i actually HAVE heard of the raped woman theory, and it would make some sense in this context, though i'd say that it fits well in the overall picture of what Bono is trying to say "grace" as a thematic concept should be like. a rather fitting illustration to underline the song's emphasis on grace.
wernerkoek makes a great point actually. Bono purposely constructs and uses imagery of a woman (much like in Proverbs when wisdom is described as a woman) to convey an accessible (well, to some anyhow) image of what "grace" looks like. true, it's not everyone's cup of tea but generally in a pseudo-Christian world it's increasingly hard to fathom what practical grace would look like. I think the usage of feminine qualities in the construction of so-called "Christian" themes throughout U2's songwriting features heavily (think "mysterious ways" etc), and it's worth a shot reinterpreting many of their supposed simple love songs as having a deeper connotation? again Bono really is obsessed with the idea of grace and u will find that it influences his songwriting as far back as the "Boy" cd.
and i actually HAVE heard of the raped woman theory, and it would make some sense in this context, though i'd say that it fits well in the overall picture of what Bono is trying to say "grace" as a thematic concept should be like. a rather fitting illustration to underline the song's emphasis on grace.