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A faculty advisor to my college Christian group used to give talks about spiritual messages in U2 songs. (FYI I'm not religious anymore.) He was a huge U2 fan, and this was around their big comeback circa 2001. For instance, near the end of "Mysterious Ways," Bono says "The Spirit moves in mysterious ways." Blink and you'll miss it, but the lyric is there.
I can't imagine hearing the lyrics to "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and not realizing it's completely religious.
"Gloria" is their best religious song, and on a good day their best song period. The video was posted earlier in this thread. I'd say it beats Van Morrison's song of the same name.
I think Boy is my favorite album of theirs. Out of Control, Electric Co, An Cat Dubh, good rocking stuff.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Political activism from rock stars has a long lineage. You can trace it all the way back to George Harrison's "Concert for Bangladesh" in 1972, the "No Nukes" concert in New York in 1979, "LIVE AID" and "We Are the World" in the 1980s, and many more. Today such activism is ubiquitous. Concert-goers are urged to support a wide range of causes, and artists' web sites act as grass-roots organizations for a multitude of high-minded projects.
But no band -- and no band leader -- embodies this ideal more today than U2 and Bono. The band supports the efforts of Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and the Chernobyl Children’s Project. Bono has used his fame to put considerable pressure on countries to reduce the burden of debt on developing countries and to draw attention to the fight against AIDS in Africa with his RED project.
But what's the real draw, the music or the message?
There's several spiritual U2 songs. I don't know if it was posted already but "Where The Streets Have No Name" is a perfect example of the hidden spiritual sub-text inside of the song.
See this one...although it technically has no spiritual lyrics (unlike the others I've posted)
has a really deep feeling for me-
I take it as a song that touches my soul somehow
Too religious? No friggin way. Their religious roots underpin most of Bono's lyrics. The desire to be good, but questioning whether that is through following the rules, authentic sensuality, or moral courage are themes that run through their music, and resonate. Bono is a pretty authentic Irish Catholic. He has evolved over time, but haven't we all? Religious dogma is a road map. It does not, and cannot capture all the rawness, hypocrisy, uncertainty, and richness of life. Still, I am thankful for the perspective I was given by my religious training, and that is why U2 is just not another skank band. It is about people who genuinely desire to be good, and sometimes, just to have fun. Don't we all?
But perhaps more important, their musical talent is a gift from the gods..!
^^^^Great posts guys
I appreciate the chance to throw another into the mix here, lol
Some deep tracks from Rattle & Hum....
*There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour's getting late.*
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