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@U2 QOM November 2008: Did a U2 song ever teach you something about yourself?
@U2,
December 02, 2008
(Each month, @U2 puts a spotlight on U2 fans with our "Question of the Month." We pose a question to our readers and invite answers of 200 words or less. If you're interested in taking part, check our home page to see if the current question is still open. If not, check back shortly after the beginning of next month and we'll have another question ready to be answered!)
U2's music is definitely no exception! Their songs have a way of making me smile...from them I think I've learned to be more optimistic. -- Lesson Medrano I would have to say that either "One" or "Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own." "One," because a lot of bad things tend to happen to me, and "One" shows how to deal with something along those lines. The lyrics talk about a couple being separate, but if you apply that concept to different situations, you will see what I am talking about. "Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own" affected my personality drastically. For the longest time, I was a cocky, arrogant, smart-ass kinda person and I didn't think anyone around me could help me. Then I heard this song, and at first I said "The music is good, but the lyrics are pointless." It wasn't until I actually needed help with something that this song showed that you truly can't make it without someone's help. -- Tanner Morris "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is the ultimate testament to faith in God when you listen to the lyrics. When I first heard it, like so many songs from U2, I understood it as a song about a relationship with someone else and the struggles you both experience. How we are all searching high and low for love in your life, essentially. But what really comes out of U2's songwriting is how this relationship struggle that seems so salient to your every thought is often also something that is happening with your relationship with the supreme being, whatever that supreme being that you believe in is, whether it be God, Allah, or whatever. When U2 uses the word "you" in any song it seems like it can be understood from the perspective of a person here on earth whom you love and/or god. ISHFWILF taught me about my personal journey of faith and how believing is
seeing ultimately. I relate to it so much in so many ways from when Bono
says "I believe in the Kingdom Come when all the colors bleed into one,"
as well as the times when we give into temptations in our lives when we're "cold as
a stone" and vulnerable: "I have held the hand of the devil,
it was warm in the night, I was cold as a stone." God truly carries
all my shame on his back. This song and the entire Joshua Tree
album were life-changing for me. -- Ian Kelly "Wild Horses" is my favorite U2 song. -- Natalie Baker I think that I could probably find something I've learned about myself in just about every U2 song. I have explained about why "Walk On" is really important to me since I can't walk, but I have learned a little about myself from two other songs. The first one would be "Stuck in a Moment" because back in 2003, I was really sick and couldn't eat very well. I was starting to get really discouraged and then I would hear that song and I realized that that is what I was: "stuck in a moment and I couldn't get out of it." I finally got myself together and realized that things could be a lot worse and I just needed to be happy for that. Another song that has taught me about myself is "Where the Streets Have No Name." When I hear that song I realize that is what I dream of, especially when Bono sings: "I wanna run, I want to hide I wanna feel sunlight on my face. These are just two examples of things I have been able to learn about myself from U2 songs, but I can't wait to see what I can learn from the songs on the new album. -- Elsha Stockseth "Stuck in A Moment ( You Can't Get Out Of)" – A real déjà vu song for me. It saved me from despair. It taught me to feel strong when I was depressed and suicidal for the past few weeks, that every trial and tribulation will pass. Taking my life away won't solve the problems, I'm such a fool worrying about myself. "Kite" – When I lost my father, I learned that life is like a kite, we never know where the wind blows -- if it breaks me or makes me stronger in my chosen path. It inspired me to write a song about it where I learned to play with the "harmony of the wind." "God Part II" inspired me to write a song that "God Does Not Play Dice." It taught me to believe in love. With love everything conquers all. And the best part is that every U2 song has taught me something, to explore my ability and share it to the world, to inspire and to enlighten. -- Lee Marvin Tang
(c) @U2/individual contributors above, 2008.
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Music
is very important to me. It's something I've always been able to connect with.
Be it happy, sad, fast, slow...Music has always been able to make my day, no
matter what!
