i think he meant the US as God's Country. because the Joshua Tree is so much about America why would all of a sudden give artistic views of another country? also if you see the video it makes sense that he is also talking about immigrants who come to the US to live a better life through means of work. 'dream beneath the desert sky' when immigrants cross over the borders they walk through deserts and they do dream a better life.
She is liberty
And she comes to rescue me
Hope, faith, her vanity
The greatest gift is gold
(US is a country who was founded on ideals of liberty, the narrator or immigrant is coming to US to be rescued, yet instead of singing bible quote 'hope, faith, and love' he switches love for 'vanity' because her greatest gift is gold, America is rich. Sometimes people have ambitions for money and love gets in the way. Don't you think such a rich nation should take care of homeless people and those without health insurance??)
Sleep comes like a drug
In God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses
In God's country, yeah
(sleep comes like a drug, that's pretty self explanatory. 'sad eyes, crooked crosses' can refer to almost anything,but i don't want to get into my interpretation. i just think he says the country which is founded by Judeo-Christian principles, has strayed)
Naked flame
She stands with a naked flame
I stand with the sons of Cain
Burned by the fire of love
Burned by the fire of love
(not sure about the naked flame, could be the torch on the statue of liberty, but I believe Bono sings that the sons of cain are like the immigrants. cause in the story we know cain killed his younger brother abel, when G-d found out, he made he wander about the earth and work for him (or toiling for food and refugee would be very hard). so in the same way cain was a refugee and had to wander the earth and work the lands really hard, that is pretty much a characteristic of the immigrants- they seek refugee for work then when they get work, they work hard for their money to survive. they have this survival instinct that cain had. obviously he doesn't mean they're murderers. sometimes musicians use actual people from the bible in their songs. its a rich source. for instance Bonnie Raitt a blues/pop singer in her song 'Thing Called Love" she says "you I know I ain't no Queen of Sheba" sheba was involved with King Solomon.... yadda yadda.)
i think he meant the US as God's Country. because the Joshua Tree is so much about America why would all of a sudden give artistic views of another country? also if you see the video it makes sense that he is also talking about immigrants who come to the US to live a better life through means of work. 'dream beneath the desert sky' when immigrants cross over the borders they walk through deserts and they do dream a better life.
She is liberty And she comes to rescue me Hope, faith, her vanity The greatest gift is gold
(US is a country who was founded on ideals of liberty, the narrator or immigrant is coming to US to be rescued, yet instead of singing bible quote 'hope, faith, and love' he switches love for 'vanity' because her greatest gift is gold, America is rich. Sometimes people have ambitions for money and love gets in the way. Don't you think such a rich nation should take care of homeless people and those without health insurance??)
Sleep comes like a drug In God's country Sad eyes, crooked crosses In God's country, yeah
(sleep comes like a drug, that's pretty self explanatory. 'sad eyes, crooked crosses' can refer to almost anything,but i don't want to get into my interpretation. i just think he says the country which is founded by Judeo-Christian principles, has strayed)
Naked flame She stands with a naked flame I stand with the sons of Cain Burned by the fire of love Burned by the fire of love
(not sure about the naked flame, could be the torch on the statue of liberty, but I believe Bono sings that the sons of cain are like the immigrants. cause in the story we know cain killed his younger brother abel, when G-d found out, he made he wander about the earth and work for him (or toiling for food and refugee would be very hard). so in the same way cain was a refugee and had to wander the earth and work the lands really hard, that is pretty much a characteristic of the immigrants- they seek refugee for work then when they get work, they work hard for their money to survive. they have this survival instinct that cain had. obviously he doesn't mean they're murderers. sometimes musicians use actual people from the bible in their songs. its a rich source. for instance Bonnie Raitt a blues/pop singer in her song 'Thing Called Love" she says "you I know I ain't no Queen of Sheba" sheba was involved with King Solomon.... yadda yadda.)