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Rating: The impossible.
The feat of turning a vague yet melancholic and misunderstood text into a stadium anthem.
The Zoo TV, Achtung Baby, and Zooropa.
Their "era" that I love the most.
As some of you may have noticed, I prefer writing thoughts and impressions about singles rather than albums.
In this case, I think it's better because for the two albums mentioned, there are a total of 13 reviews and I don't think it's necessary for me to write the usual already known anecdotes about U2.
So I decided to review my favorite song by the 4 Irishmen (despite everything they've released, I love it), released as a single in 1993 and included in the soundtrack of Wenders' film Faraway, So Close!.
Bono in the studio with Flood, working on the lyrics of a demo to be delivered to Frank Sinatra, brings out closed shopping centers, the night, traffic lights, and gray mornings.
Words never spoken, wrong advice to give to oneself, and fear. Fear of not being heard. Fear that the night is not enough.
You know that song that causes you a strong sense of sadness? That song that's a punch to the heart?
Mine is Stay without a shadow of a doubt, and I waited a long time before writing about U2 because I didn't know where to start, and if I would be capable. Maybe I've only written nonsense, but it doesn't matter, we all have a song,
that song that causes that break inside.
Picking up a guitar and playing that opening E is enough for me to realize it now.
And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout, I'll only hear you
As if the fog had a sound.
We are surrounded by antennas, TVs, and overwhelmed by radio signals but we don't hear our voices, which are (or were) so close.
You can give as many meanings as you want to Stay.
All will be damn in tune with what you feel and with your time.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (05:00)
Green light, 7-Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke, don't even want to
Hey now, check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
The wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you you don't mind
Because when he hurts you you feel alive
Oh now, is that what it is
Red light, grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around
You used to stay up to watch the adverts
You could lip-synch to the talk shows
And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk it's not to me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing
If I could stay, then the night would give you up
Stay, and the day would keep its trust
Stay, and the night would be enough
Faraway, so close up with the static and the radio
With satellite television you can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast and Berlin
And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout, I'll only hear you
If I could stay then the night would give you up
Stay then the day would keep its trust
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay and the night would be enough
Three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter as an angel runs to ground
Just the bang and the clatter as an angel hits the ground
02 Slow Dancing (03:21)
My love is cruel as the night
She steals the sun, and shuts out the light
All of my colors, they turn to blue
Win or lose
She does it slow dancing
Slow dancing
She does it slow...dancing
All night long
Scarlet eyes and a see-through heart
She saw me coming right from the start
She picked me up, but had me down on my knees
Just a' beggin' her, beggin' her please
Take me slow dancing
Slow dancing
She took me slow...dancing
All night long
And I don't know a man
Search for himself in his lover's eyes
No I don't know why a man
Sees the truth but needs the lies
My love is restless as the wind
She moves like a shadow across my skin
She left with my conscience, I don't want it back
It just gets in the way
If you wanna go slow dancing
Slow dancing
She took me slow...dancing
All night long
Slow...dancing
Slow...dancing
Slow...
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