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this is the favorite so far...
"Stand Up Comedy"
Love love love love love…
Love love love love love…
I got to stand up and take a step
You and I have been asleep for hours
I got to stand up
The wire is stretched in between our two towers
Stand up in this dizzy world
Where a lovesick eye can steal the view
I’m gonna fall down if I can’t stand up
For your love
Love love love love love…
Stand up, this is comedy
The DNA lottery may have left you smart
But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart
I can stand up for hope, faith, love
But while I’m getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady
Out from under your beds
C’mon ye people
Stand up for your love
Love love love love love…
I gotta stand up to ego but my ego’s not really the enemy
It’s like a small child crossing an eight lane highway
On a voyage of discovery
Stand up to rock stars, Napolean is in high heels
Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas
Out from under your beds
C’mon ye people
Stand up for your love
Love love love love love…
God is love
And love is evolution’s very best day
Soul rockin’ people moving on
Soul rockin’ people on and on
C’mon ye people
We’re made of stars
C’mon ye people
Stand up then
sit down for your love
Love love love love love…
Love love love love love…
Almost every song sounds different, yet still U2. there is so much depth and meaning...and a much more spiritual fervor. "White as Snow" speaks volumes: My brother and I would
drive for hours / Like we had years instead of days / Our faces as pale as the dirty snow / Once I knew there was a love divine / Then came a time I thought it knew me not / Who can forgive forgiveness where forgiveness is not / Only the lamb as white as snow
Twisting metaphors from humanity to Jesus. Since that's what Jesus does with us.
Every song tells a story about a different aspect of life and finding something or losing something.
Binding, loosing. Praising one thing or another. In each one you have to dig, dig for something else you haven't thought of yet. Cedars of Lebanon make me want to cry. No, this is my favorite.
Can’t remember what then we did
I haven’t been with a woman, it feels like for years
Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears
This shitty world sometimes produces
a rose
The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
Return the call to home
The worst of us are a long drawn out confession
The best of us are geniuses of compression
You say you’re not going to leave the truth alone
I’m here ’cos I don’t want to go home
Child drinking dirty water from the river bank
Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank
I’m waiting on the waiter, he’s taking a while to come
Watching the sun go down on Lebanon
Return the call to home
Now I’ve got a head like a lit cigarette
Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret
You’re so high above me, higher than everyone
Where are you in the Cedars of Lebanon?
Choose your enemies carefully ’cos they will define you
Make them interesting ’cos in some ways they will mind you
They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friend
I haven’t been with a woman, it feels like for years
Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears
This shitty world sometimes produces
a rose
The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
Return the call to home
The worst of us are a long drawn out confession
The best of us are geniuses of compression
You say you’re not going to leave the truth alone
I’m here ’cos I don’t want to go home
Child drinking dirty water from the river bank
Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank
I’m waiting on the waiter, he’s taking a while to come
Watching the sun go down on Lebanon
Return the call to home
Now I’ve got a head like a lit cigarette
Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret
You’re so high above me, higher than everyone
Where are you in the Cedars of Lebanon?
Choose your enemies carefully ’cos they will define you
Make them interesting ’cos in some ways they will mind you
They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friend
I've found grace inside a sound, I've found grace, it's all that I found and I can breathe, breathe now.
Heavens, stop now, Karen.
2 comments:
I really like "Moment of Surrender" right now. I like the idea of "punchin in the numbers on the ATM machine", something so mundane, common and ordinary, and yet in that moment of catching a reflection I can meet the Divine. The song seems to speak of little glimpses of kingdom, divinity and sureneder in the midst of an ever-busy, spiraling-out-of-control life. Finding God is there in the simple and ordinary, being aware of his presence and looking for it. That's a great reminder.
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