"Where the Streets Have No Name' is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because it's a sketch - I was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location.
I was trying to sketch a feeling. I often feel very claustrophobic in a city, a feeling of wanting to break out of that city and a feeling of wanting to go somewhere where the values of the city and the values of our society don't hold you down.
An interesting story that someone told me once is that in Belfast, by what street someone lives on you can tell not only their religion but tell how much money they're making - literally by which side of the road they live on, because the further up the hill the more expensive the houses become.
That said something to me, and so I started writing about a place 'where the streets have no name."
- Bono from Propaganda 5, 1987
get ready for the new U2 album everyone. it's going to be filled with something we need from music, heartfelt messages.
I just want to lay down and listen to music all day. I wish I had that time. Actually, I wish everyone had that time to just lay down and escape the world while at the same time be able to learn so much about it in music's melodies and lyrics. If I ever become the Chief-Executive-President-Dictator-Director-General-Fuhrer of the World, I promise to institute a day where everyone will be forced to lay down and enjoy their day being lost in song. What an awesome world that would be. (of course anything by Katy Perry or the Jonas Brothers will be deemed highly illegal on penalty of public tar and feathering.)
But for now, all I can ask for is a break. Even just a little one.
Pictures do speak a thousand words, or at least relate to lyrics
First off, thank you to everyone who takes time to read this blog. it means a lot. I just hope to provide something worthwhile...
with that note, I cant seem to write any coherent posts (I have like 3 half finished ones on my hard drive) so I thought I'd just show you some lyrics and pictures associated with them that have been lingering in my mind lately (I'll prob end up adding to this):
"I still believe in summer days, the seasons always change, and life will find a way." - Winter Song
(the numbers on top of the boys are the blocks the within a refugee camp that wall off the rest of the world to them. the crazy thing about this picture was that each box seemed to somehow really capture the boys individuality)
"In my life as I walk these streets, Love open my eyes show me what you see" - Never Let Me Go
"Daisy give yourself away. Look about the rain, a beautiful display of power and surrender, giving us today, when she gives herself away." - Daisy
"They say that things just cannot grow, beneath the winter snow, or so I have been told." - Winter Song
