If I was a music writer I would be able to tell you the setlist, the lighting, the effects, but I'm not. Deal with it.
One is by far my favorite U2 song, it stirs warm happy emotions inside me that I'm pretty sure I thought were suppressed deep within what remains of my soul. It makes me want to hug strangers and be nice to the incredibly stupid. There was this chick that crowded into my stolen space (we had General Admission tickets and never made it down to GA, after deeming we were too special to stand there we instead stood behind the $250 seats) and tried to side booty bump me over. 1) oh hell no! 2) I turned and stared at her as I was talking to the people I was with "who the hell does this bitch think she is?" (no, she didn't turn to look at me until I stopped staring at her. Apparently, staring directly at me will be taken as a challenge and I never back down. Beeches always look away first.) 3) wait...is that U2? Is that One? Oh...I should be nicer to people, maybe she was raised by really ignorant people. I will smile at her as we sway side to side listening and singing...
"Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...
One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it
Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...
Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...life
One"
That beech got to stand next to me for the rest of the concert without me glaring at her. The concert was in typical Bono-style...full of heart felt melodies, trying to change the world, and an alien space ship.
No comments:
Post a Comment