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  1. Haven't done much with it and not sure where to go next, yet with it.

    Nobody in sight and nary a bump in the night
    Nor any noise 'cept for a busker with no well-earned applause
    The bricks were still and the movement was nil
    Wind absent and the warmth heaven-sent
    Two friends uninterested in the night's end
    Sounds of arriving feet, the few left to disipitate
    Taken by winds of change in the distance

    One lonely soul singing to survive with his money bowl
    Looking to sing another day, through another day
    Sing for the moment, sing for the soul, sing to achieve his goal
    Of that he just can't fathom another day of famine

    Young child lost on the street corner, miles from home
    Lost, so alone, broken and aching, cold and shaken
    She weeps whilst the unaware city sleeps
    In their own dreams.


    I think I'll leave it as that...it's more a spoken poem than a song. I think I'll record it.
  2. Go for it! Great words.

  3. Do you think I should leave it as that?

    I might do it with Beautiful Ghost in the background.


  4. That's your choice If you think you can make it better, go for it, but be aware of overdoing it. Do what you think is the best for the song

    I think I'll try to record one of my songs later, if I can get my voice to wake up and sound decent.

  8. 4 / 10. It may be hard to hear me speaking in it as I've kept it a poem not a song.


    OK, it deserved it.

    I've always found Acrobat the weakest Achtung track followed by One and then Even Better - but even with those three, it's a brilliant album if not one of the best I've ever heard (and I've played hundreds of full albums!). But then Zooropa and Original Soundtracks came along, three and five years before I was a fan, and I listen to those a lot more lately for some reason. Although if we didn't have One, we wouldn't have U2 and have this place.

    Original Soundtracks is a masterpiece.
  9. I thought so too some time ago, but I slowly realize the beauty of Acrobat, that guitar work!

  10. It's not a bad song though. It's great but the brilliance of Achtung, something's gotta be weakest and that's the one for me. On a good day it's One that's the weakest.

    One of my favourites is Levitate. Beautiful song.
  11. The Fly and One are the weakest tracks on Achtung Baby, and even so they're better than 90% of this past decade's work.

    Acrobat is a beauty of a song, whose greatness has been dramatically improved by the fact that it hasn't been played ever. That helps.A.L.O.T.
  12. I bet they're saving Acrobat for the very last time. How has he been an acrobat all these years in regards to music, politics, family and pop culture. The decade's weakest album has to be ATYCLB by far. Wild Honey, When I Look At The World and The Ground Beneath Her Feet I'll take.

    It's a bloody strong album if all the songs are listenable and quality yet have some weak ones, not really weak in that sense. Probably the last strong album was Zooropa - Pop had some pretty crap songs on there e.g. Discotheque and Staring At The Sun (for me at least).

    I'd shit myself if they bought Acrobat out for 360. I really would. Although they ought to miss out on something given at the show I went to they played Hold Me Thrill Me. But they did play Bad and Mercy in a row, so I guess that was better than anything. I didn't mind the Crazy remix either.

    I've a few photos I've meant to upload but too small for the gallery from my show not using zoom-in at all.
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