Full Circle

November 23, 2004

As I was listening to the new record by U2, I couldn’t help but notice the similarity in lyrics written by Bono almost 25 years apart.

Gloria
Bono 1981

I try to sing this song
I, I try to stand up
But I can’t find my feet.
I, I try to speak up
But only in you I’m complete.

Gloria
In te domine
Gloria
Exultate
Gloria
Gloria
Oh, Lord, loosen my lips.

I try to sing this song
I, I try to get in
But I can’t find the door
The door is open
You’re standing there, you let me in.

Gloria
In te domine
Gloria
Exultate
Oh, Lord, if I had anything, anything at all
I’d give it to you.

Gloria
In te domine
Gloria
Gloria

All because of you
Bono 2004

I was born a child of grace
Nothing else about the place
Everything was ugly but your beautiful face
And it left me no illusion

I saw you in the curve of the moon
In the shadow cast across my room
You heard me in my tune
When I just heard confusion

All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am…I am

I like the sound of my own voice
I didn’t give anyone else a choice
An intellectual tortoise
Racing with your bullet train

Some people get squashed crossing the tracks
Some people got high rises on their backs
I’m not broke but you can see the cracks
You can make me perfect again

All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am…I am

I’m alive
I’m being born
I just arrived, I’m at the door
Of the place I started out from
And I want back inside

All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am

Posted by pablohart on November 23, 2004 06:09 PM

Comments

the "zoo" is over, Bono is now fully a man on a mission: Love and Peace Or Else. sign me up :)

i love your post. if you watch the DVD, you hear Bono talking about how this is their "first" album. in fact, the idea of "vertigo" came from a line in an extra song on their first single, Out Of Control. it's like they picked up--musically and spiritually--where they left off 20 years ago.

I was born a child of grace Nothing else about the place Everything was ugly but your beautiful face

Take this heart... and make it break

Posted by Nathan Hart at November 24, 2004 10:11 AM

yeah, after listening to it last night, i said this is the album bono has always wanted to make. raw and real.

Posted by manda at November 24, 2004 3:40 PM

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