Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

I think this song is completely about breakup. A really, really nasty one. Almost like the breakup of a marriage... and y'know how one of the band members had gone through a divorce at the same time of the Achtung Baby writing, maybe this song came out of that. I love to listen to this song when I'm angry or unstable. It's quite an angsty song, and I always calm down listening to it. "Took a drive in the dirty rain, to a place where the wind calls your name Only the trees and river laughing at you and me Hallelujah, Heaven's white rose The doors you open I just can't close" That's sheer poetry. It evokes quite vivid images in my mind- a man driving down a watery, glistening black street in a dirty red pickup truck, rain beating down in sheets... and then he and the girl, "Heaven's white rose", are sitting by the river, a churning brown river, making love in the mud- and her hair is black, her dress is white, and it's getting stained from the mud they're rolling in, and the trees provide little shelter, and wind is whistling through the branches... I get so caught up in this song. I love it to death.