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Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand...
Love
She's slippy
You're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel
(on your knees boy)
She's the wave
She turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Lift my days, light up my nights
One day you will look...back
And you'll see...where
You were held...how
By this love...while
You could stand...there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright (Love, love)
She moves in mysterious ways (Oh no, oh no)
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright (Move you, spirit, move, making love)
Spirit moves in mysterious ways (Yeah, move, yeah, move, make love)
It's alright, it's alright, alright (You move with it, she moves with it)
Lift my days, light up my nights, love
Achtung Baby is by far their best album ever.
TOTALLY agree!
Achtung Baby is by far their best album ever.
GREAT ALBUM & GREAT TUNE!! I like a LOT of their tunes. I find it very difficult to apply BEST to any of them. Thanx RP!
I Agree. Same here.
Although my internal clock knows the timing, the sound here is relatively timeless. My kids would not have any idea this is nearly 30 years old now.
This is one of those albums.
Don't think so. It's there, midway down the lyrics sheet; after (on your knees boy).
Indeed, this is great and it never gets old. I must crank the volume whenever anything from this album comes up. They never came close to this level in any of their later albums.
Only song from a later album that to me comes a bit close is Magnificent.
This has to be one of the best U2 songs in my opinion.
At the top of their game and it has an Irish vibe with the names of the characters in the lyrics.
So as Fred_Riley might say - a 10 from the Ulster jury.
A 10 from me as well ... my favorite song by U2, and that's high praise!
A 10 from me as well ... my favorite song by U2, and that's high praise!
Mysterious lyrics, inspired guitar work, fantastic orchestration and production and even Bono is singing at his pompous best.
This has to be one of the best U2 songs in my opinion.
At the top of their game and it has an Irish vibe with the names of the characters in the lyrics.
So as Fred_Riley might say - a 10 from the Ulster jury.
Thank you.
Indeed, this is great and it never gets old. I must crank the volume whenever anything from this album comes up. They never came close to this level in any of their later albums.
This is a religious song, and Bono is simply singing about God while using the example of a woman. It has nothing to do with how a woman moves.
God works in mysterious ways. If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. Etc.
From that perspective, it's a really well-written song. I'm not a big U2 fan, except for Unforgettable Fire, but I gotta respect the craft here.
You may find this interpretation obvious. I find it to be more than a bit of a stretch. Why would they feel the need to disguise "God works in mysterious ways" as "She moves in mysterious ways"?
You've taken the "better learn how to kneel" line out of its context.
I've noticed the similarity to the old saw, but that hardly makes it a song about the supernatural.
This is a religious song, and Bono is simply singing about God while using the example of a woman. It has nothing to do with how a woman moves.
God works in mysterious ways. If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. Etc.
From that perspective, it's a really well-written song. I'm not a big U2 fan, except for Unforgettable Fire, but I gotta respect the craft here.
I agree, at one time, one time only, even then they had a writer, a producer and an orchestra.
But this song is a 7.4
100% behind your sentiments randyblew
and Bono is an asshole IMHO
.... as they say, "YOU ARE NOT ALONE"
marvelous... love this song...
"If you want to kiss the sky, you better learn how to kneel..."
Clever stuff... practically an allusion to Jimi Hendrix... great music... love it... everybody in my church be kneeling and dancing...
and Bono is an asshole IMHO
Leaderships usually installed and supported by Western imperialist powers, who continue their exploitation of resources at the expense of the ordinary stiffs in those countries who really get the rough end of the imperialist pineapple.
That said, St Bonio and the Tax Dodgers aren't much use in ameliorating the situation. At best, St Bonio had a highly marginal impact on 'world leaders' at Gleneagles, a fleabite on an elephant. Enough to make it scratch, nowhere near enough to stop it stomping on everything in its path. Real change, as the 'Arab Spring' has shown us quite graphically, comes about from popular revolutionary action. Action that imperialist powers pay corrupt dictatorships and kleptocracies handsomely to suppress so that profits can continue to flow to capitalists and corporations in the developing world.
Well said Fred.
Leaderships usually installed and supported by Western imperialist powers, who continue their exploitation of resources at the expense of the ordinary stiffs in those countries who really get the rough end of the imperialist pineapple.
That said, St Bonio and the Tax Dodgers aren't much use in ameliorating the situation. At best, St Bonio had a highly marginal impact on 'world leaders' at Gleneagles, a fleabite on an elephant. Enough to make it scratch, nowhere near enough to stop it stomping on everything in its path. Real change, as the 'Arab Spring' has shown us quite graphically, comes about from popular revolutionary action. Action that imperialist powers pay corrupt dictatorships and kleptocracies handsomely to suppress so that profits can continue to flow to capitalists and corporations in the developing world.
"Poor countries are poor for demonstrable reasons, usually because of horribly massively oppressively corrupt leadership subjugating the general population."
Your comment is so ignorant of history that it almost needs to be completely ignored, but I'll bite.
How do you think these corrupt leaders rose to power? Were they educated by Western colonizers? Did they cut a deal with a multinational corporation to trade mineral/fossil fuel rights for power? Were they the leader of a political/military power who's opposition to communism made Western powers overlook their horrible human rights abuses? Or, were they elected freely only to go on and solidify power/change their countries constitution/eliminate their rivals? Did they leverage their country's few resources to the World Bank in exchange for loans they could never afford to pay back?
The reason why countries stay poor is because its far more expedient for richer, more powerful nations to subjugate less powerful and underdeveloped nations. We take for granted all the aspects of our well developed societies in the west; laws that people follow, courts that work, a system of health care, fair elections - but these institutions are still developing in the poorer countries Bono tries to help. That's why their called "Developing Nations."
Bono has every right to expect ask rich countries to chip in when "disasters" like the AIDS epidemic strike. After all, we profit from them on so many levels.
Food for thought.
Bono... (what the hell is a "bono" anyway) is a self-absorbed narcissistic wannabe important person.
What ever happened to the concept that in order to have credibility in a field... or political topic or discipline, one first has to achieve, earn and demonstrate some justification for holding that credibility?
Please, lead singer in a mediocre band... leads to too much time on his hands and too much income... which leads to delusions of grandeur.
As for the "rich countries owe poor countries something" philosophical concept... no country owes any other country anything, unless they inflict harm on the "other" country somehow.
Poor countries are poor for demonstrable reasons, usually because of horribly massively oppressively corrupt leadership subjugating the general population.
Re St. Bono's political activism.
I like the music, and do not agree with the content of his activism but would invite those of you who oppose to at least understand it.
Bono believes that western countries owe poor, developing countries much assistance. He apparently believes that large amounts of gifted aid will help. it makes perfect sense for him to hob nob because countries like the USA and Great Britain because these states have access to the biggest pools of resources.
Bono is not leading a fight against the contemporary ethnic cleansing or vestiges of western violent colonialism.
St Bonio invites 'strong opinions' on account of his hobnobbing with world leaders, moralist preaching, serious wealth, and tax avoidance. If he stuck to playing music folk would be more concerned by his musical ability than his personality. I was ok about U2, despite being a militant atheist, before he became a self-publicising world figure lending spurious legitimacy to Bush, Blair et al. Once he made himself a public figure, he deserved everything coming to him.
At what point is it possible to separate the music from the personalities I wonder? I'm guessing future generations, not blighted by daily press coverage will have a different angle on U2 etc. The antics of various classical composers I love, dating back a few hundred years, fortunately very rarely spoil the music for me.
Megalomaniacs (sorry 'world leaders') should be brought down, or at least brought down to earth, not hob-nobbed with. You wouldn't catch me hanging out with 'leaders'. St Bonio, Geldof and their like have made negative contributions to social justice by lending dictators (elective or imposed) social and moral legitimacy.
There's an old saying, popularised in the excellent and slyly satirical Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: anyone who seeks power should on no account be allowed to have it.
Never have liked U2......
Ditto
Never have liked U2......
St Bonio invites 'strong opinions' on account of his hobnobbing with world leaders, moralist preaching, serious wealth, and tax avoidance. If he stuck to playing music folk would be more concerned by his musical ability than his personality. I was ok about U2, despite being a militant atheist, before he became a self-publicising world figure lending spurious legitimacy to Bush, Blair et al. Once he made himself a public figure, he deserved everything coming to him.
I feel the same way. There are others on Achtung that I prefer to hear and am not burned out on.
St Bonio invites 'strong opinions' on account of his hobnobbing with world leaders, moralist preaching, serious wealth, and tax avoidance. If he stuck to playing music folk would be more concerned by his musical ability than his personality. I was ok about U2, despite being a militant atheist, before he became a self-publicising world figure lending spurious legitimacy to Bush, Blair et al. Once he made himself a public figure, he deserved everything coming to him.
araja wrote:
Note that it's "SHE moves in mysterious ways". Movement is just one of the great mysteries of women.
kaz wrote:
Has any band ever produced anything better after such a stellar album?
Do you dance to this song in mysterious ways?
Yes indeed.