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  1. It's still better than anything on ATYCLB and HTDAAB.
  2. "better than anything on ATYCLB..."

    Dude... If I wasn't typing this on my Phone while I wait for a nice young man to bring me curried goat, I would be refuting this SO hard. Instead I'll just stick with: IS NOT.




  3. Your honour, I object.
  4. Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:[..]

    I think it's safe to say Mercy will never be released officially. If we're lucky we'll have to pay another 50 dollars for it with a subscription to the website for an exclusive cd.


    They might just release it one day on another Unreleased Tracks disc. But no, it won't show up on a next studio album. Not in this state.
  5. Originally posted by sonia_lastrega:"better than anything on ATYCLB..."

    Dude... If I wasn't typing this on my Phone while I wait for a nice young man to bring me curried goat, I would be refuting this SO hard. Instead I'll just stick with: IS NOT.


    Oh yes, my apologies, ATYCLB has Grace.


  6. I join your ranks - the lyrics are uninspired in my mind - the sort of switch up "this is now that" "I'm this you are that" lyrical device reminds me too much of "Windows in the Sky" / "Always" ... it seems a kind of default lyrical play Bono does when he's trying to think of better lyrics to put down... I know.... I'm bad. Sorry.
  7. Originally posted by robotsandmonkeys:[..]

    I join your ranks - the lyrics are uninspired in my mind - the sort of switch up "this is now that" "I'm this you are that" lyrical device reminds me too much of "Windows in the Sky" / "Always" ... it seems a kind of default lyrical play Bono does when he's trying to think of better lyrics to put down... I know.... I'm bad. Sorry.


    When I'm rippin' the stitches
    Without two cents (ends?) to rub
    I'm digging the ditches
    Of someone else's luck

    Love, hears, when I lie
    Love puts the blue back in my eye
    Love will come again
    I'll be gone again
    Again

    ....
    Love's, got, to be with the weak
    Only then love gets a chance to speak
    Love will come again
    I'll be gone again

    ...
    Love is the end, of history
    The enemy of misery
    Love will come again
    I'm alive again
    Love is justice, not charity
    Love brings with it clarity
    Love will come again
    I'm alive agian
    Again..

    But we're way OT I think.
  8. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    It's unfinished which is why it's a bit clunky.

    I think its overrated, certainly its not better than stuff on their older albums (it probably stands out compared to the rest of their post-2000s stuff) but I think it has potential.

    I like the extended first verse, the rest of the song is far less memorable.


    I fuckin love it, and every time i've seen the band up close someone has always been begging for them to do something with it.
  9. Hi everyone,

    I have been reflecting a lot about u2 lately, listening to stuff I had never heard and stuff I can listen in my head as if I was with phones just from my imagination. So, I will write stuff I´ve already said and new things which I thought of.

    OBS: LOTS OF OPINION ;p

    1. I am disappointed with their management. You see golden tunes that are unrealeased or very rare such as smile, these are the hands that build america, disappearing act, wave of sorrow, mercy and the million dollar hotel soundtrack. This latter is amazing, between their greatest stuff, and I, who have their whole discography, found it this week. You also see we often get a lot of expectations and they are never met and we get disappointed.

    2. U2´s obsession for radio hits and commercial success is very bad for them. Being the biggest band in the world is not the same as being the best. Radio songs suffered a change in paradigma, in this generation, great songs are songs you can dance and have fun to. Music is not a way of expanding an ideology or speaking for people anymore as much as it was. U2 should tell everyone to fuck off like Radiohead, Pink Floyd and R.E.M did. Yes, U2 was always popular in a social way, representing the people. But this change of value in music, this want want want of U2 added up to how people hate Bono and love people who are in the papers for shaving their heads or showing their tits is causing people to hate them. The few of my classmates love U2 but think they have 2 albums only - ATYCLB and HTDAAB. U2 should make music for the art, for pushing boundaries and eventually they´ll be a consequence. U2 is trying to skip steps. You write a good song and if it is good it will turn out t be recognized, if you try too hard to make something to be recognized you limit your creativity.

    3. U2 is getting older, they should after this tour scale things down like elevation and focus on th music and the music itself. They are still a great live band, but there is a magic to them when they play smaller. If they keep trying to go big and be big it will show thy are out of fuel, they are trying t relive the past now. And they should be living anoter fase.

    4. U2 is immortal for 30 years of golden tunes, some greater than others and they can still be and still are!!!!!!!

    5. I hope that SoA is with what the band wants. In my mid it sounds somewhere in between The Million Dollar Hotel, Zooropa and African music.

    Thanx for the read and I have to admit I´m kind of pissed today hahahahaha
  10. Mercy is a fantastic song! Stop dissing it please! Haha joking, each to their own.

    1. Kingdom
    2. Mercy
    3. Winter

    If those were the first 3 we would be on for something special. I can dream, cant I?
  11. How would a man go about getting a hold of songs like Mercy and Disappearing Act?
  12. Originally posted by yuri31:[..]

    When I'm rippin' the stitches
    Without two cents (ends?) to rub
    I'm digging the ditches
    Of someone else's luck

    Love, hears, when I lie
    Love puts the blue back in my eye
    Love will come again
    I'll be gone again
    Again

    ....
    Love's, got, to be with the weak
    Only then love gets a chance to speak
    Love will come again
    I'll be gone again

    ...
    Love is the end, of history
    The enemy of misery
    Love will come again
    I'm alive again
    Love is justice, not charity
    Love brings with it clarity
    Love will come again
    I'm alive agian
    Again..

    But we're way OT I think.


    I'm sorry - I know we're way off topic but had to respond - the lyrics you posted took out the exact "I'm this/your that" "what was a this / is now a that" lyrics I disliked - these are the full lyrics to Mercy...

    was drinking some wine... and it turned to blood
    What's the use of religion... if you're any good
    I know i'm weedkiller honey... and you're sugar
    If you're the prosecution... i get away with murder
    If you were ice... i'm water
    And with your telescope... i can see further
    We're binary code... a one and a zero
    You wanted violins... and you got nero
    You're gravity... searching for the ground
    You're silence... searching for a sound
    Your heart is aching... your heart is my home
    It's fascinating... i know i'll never be alone
    When I was ripping the stitches
    Without two cents to rub
    I'm digging the ditches
    Of someone else's luck
    Love is when i lie
    Love puts the blue back in my eye
    Love will come again
    I'll be gone again... again
    If you're hunger... baby let me feed it
    If your heart is full... baby let me bleed it
    And happiness is for... those who don't really need it
    You love me... too much
    You always loved me... too much
    When I was ripping the stitches
    Without two cents to rub
    I'm in the ditches
    Of someone else's luck
    Love is when i lie
    Love puts the blue back in my eye
    Love has come again
    I am gone again
    Love's got to be with the weak
    Only then love gets a chance to speak
    Love will come again
    I'll be gone again... again
    I... i can't escape myself
    I hear you talk
    Feeling nothing
    I fear nothing
    Feel....
    I can hear so much
    Fear nothing
    I feel so much
    Fear... nothing
    Love has come again
    I am gone again
    Love is the end of history
    The enemy of misery
    Love has come again
    I am gone again
    Love is justice, not charity
    Love brings with it a clarity
    Love has come again
    I'm alive again
    Alive...
    I am alive, baby i'm born again and again
    And again, and again and again and again
    Again


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