OF INTEREST - CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS

I should start out by saying that I am a Liberal and a BIG U2 fan. I have always listened to their music and they are my favorite group. I admire Bono (lead singer) and the group. Their songs are filled with inspiration and feelings. Bono has a tendency to write heart felt songs about our world that inspire and cause us to remember the trials and tribulations of others. He has the uncanny ability to help us walk a mile in anothers shoes, so to speak, and end by reminding us that there is always HOPE.


During the Obama campaign a song titled - The City Of Blinding Lights was used as a backdrop. This song is by U2 and was inspired by a trip that the group took in 1980 to New York City. Later after 9/11 U2 once again came to New York for a concert. Bono said that when the lights came up he looked out across the crowd and he could see the tears in their eyes and he was tremendously inspired by the emotions that came pouring out of this group of people.


I guess with all that had happened he saw that there was still hope and a resolve in the American people. That we had lost something but we intended to carry on and so we did. He wrote City Of Blinding Lights. This is the lyrics to the song. As you read them keep in mind that we lost so many that day, we were naive before 9/11 and we still rose above all that had happened and we came together.


The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now


Neon heart, day-glow eyes
The city lit by fireflies
They're advertising in the skies
And people like us


And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground


Oh you look so beautiful tonight...


In the city of blinding lights


Don't look before you laugh
Look ugly in a photograph
Flash bulbs, purple irises the camera can't see
I've seen you walk unafraid
I've seen you in the clothes you've made
Can you see the beauty inside of me?
What happened to the beauty I had inside of me?


And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground
Oh you look so beautiful tonight...


In the city of blinding lights
Time...time....time...time...time...won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man


Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight


In the city of blinding lights,The more you know
The less you feel
Some pray for, others steal
Blessings not just for the ones who kneel, luckily




Hope you can see the beauty in his song..... U2 recently sang at the "We Are One" concert for Barack Obama. Bono is a Liberal and a Humanitarian. I was so happy to see U2 perform at this concert.


Also, this is one of my favorite songs and I just wanted to post the lyrics so I could have them and if you are so inclined you can read them too. This is a song by U2 and it is called So Cruel.


We crossed the line
Who pushed who over?
It doesn't matter to you
It matters to me


Were cut adrift
But still floating
I'm only hanging on
To watch you go down...my love


I disappeared in you
You disappeared from me
I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted


The men who love you, you hate the most
They pass through you like a ghost
They look for you but your spirit is in the air
Baby... you're nowhere


You say in love there are no rules
Sweetheart
You're so cruel


Desperation is a tender trap
It gets you every time
You put your lips to her lips
To stop the lie


Her skin is pale like gods only dove
Screams like an angel for your love
Then she makes you watch her from above
And you need her like a drug


You say in love there are no rules
Sweetheart
You're so cruel


She wears my love like a see-through dress
Her lips say one thing
Her movements something else
Oh love... Like a screaming flower
Love dying every hour


And you don't know if its fear or desire
Danger of a drug that takes you higher?
Head of heaven, Fingers in the mire


Her heart is racing... you cant keep up
The night is bleeding like a cut
Between the horses of love and lust
We get trampled underfoot


You say in love there are no rules
Sweetheart
You re so cruel


To stay with you
I'd be a fool
Sweetheart
You re so cruel.