Listened: Monday May 17
Another appropriately momentous album appearing early in the process. I actually got into U2 before the Beatles – early high school. They were the first band I fell hard for. And to this day I have never been to one of their shows. Someday I should change that.
This album is – for lack of a better phrase – dead sexy. With amazing lyrics.
“I’m only hangin’ on to watch you go down, my love.”
“Love is clockworks, and cold steel, fingers too numb to feel.”
“Who’s gonna ride your wild horses? Who’s gonna drown in your blue sea?”
“One life, you’ve got to do what you should.”
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