Oh man. Makes me realize how deeply these songs are worn into my soul. Achtung was my first album experience and it startles me how endlessly vivid it is, to this day. Celebrating with you.
From part of a Feb.1992 letter to the editor (B.C. Christian News, Langley, B.C., Canada): Your readers might appreciate corrections to the review writer's underestimation of the overt Christian content in the album's lyrics. Dave Langille could only find U2 "spending their time in the book of Job." When he listens again he will hear: in their song 'Mysterious Ways,' which everybody seems to have as Number One everywhere, U2 ramming the 2nd Chapter of Acts down worldly throats; on 'Till the End of the World' an exquisite presentation of the Gospel account of The Betrayal, where a plain recitation of the biblical account is at the same time a modern believer’s realization that he, like all of us, has played Judas: "In the Garden I was playing the tart… I kissed your lips and broke your heart." And then, at the most glorious of Christian moments: "In waves of regret, waves of joy… I reached out for the One I tried to destroy." Perhaps the best lyric is from ‘Mysterious Ways' -- sung, you recall, on every dance floor in the world this past month -- and is the triumphant Christian epitaph of the sixties Man-Is-Wonderful-Drugs-Will-Set-Us-Free ethos. Jimi Hendrix, bless him, wrote the exemplary lyric of the psychedelic age, ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky.’ To which absolutely no one else but Bono could reply: "If you want to kiss the sky… Better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy!"
Oh man. Makes me realize how deeply these songs are worn into my soul. Achtung was my first album experience and it startles me how endlessly vivid it is, to this day. Celebrating with you.
I love this so much
absolutely brilliant!! u got me feeling like I wanna to listen to it again right now! LESGOO
ps: subbed btw 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Popped up into my feed and so happy it did :)
Which effect did you used for even better than the real thing?
Yes!
So bad ass!!
yes!!!
From part of a Feb.1992 letter to the editor (B.C. Christian News, Langley, B.C., Canada): Your readers might appreciate corrections to the review writer's underestimation of the overt Christian content in the album's lyrics. Dave Langille could only find U2 "spending their time in the book of Job." When he listens again he will hear: in their song 'Mysterious Ways,' which everybody seems to have as Number One everywhere, U2 ramming the 2nd Chapter of Acts down worldly throats; on 'Till the End of the World' an exquisite presentation of the Gospel account of The Betrayal, where a plain recitation of the biblical account is at the same time a modern believer’s realization that he, like all of us, has played Judas: "In the Garden I was playing the tart… I kissed your lips and broke your heart."
And then, at the most glorious of Christian moments: "In waves of regret, waves of joy… I reached out for the One I tried to destroy."
Perhaps the best lyric is from ‘Mysterious Ways' -- sung, you recall, on every dance floor in the world this past month -- and is the triumphant Christian epitaph of the sixties Man-Is-Wonderful-Drugs-Will-Set-Us-Free ethos. Jimi Hendrix, bless him, wrote the exemplary lyric of the psychedelic age, ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky.’ To which absolutely no one else but Bono could reply: "If you want to kiss the sky… Better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy!"