Showing posts with label u2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label u2. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2005

how to dismantle an atomic bomb

and the other solutions to pressing problems, like finding world peace and the cure for aids.

u2 always gives me a buzz. my favorite among their new songs is the current single, city of blinding lights. it's romantic pala, especially when you hear the chorus. my all-time favorite song is stay (faraway, so close), i think from achtung baby, i don't remember. the title suggests something romantic, right? and if you hear the melody, you would think it was. but i read the lyrics just a couple of weeks ago and i realize it was about domestic violence (i think). hahaha was i way off mark there.



so i was right all along. somewhere in this site i wondered how i was going to get over a major distraction, which at the time hadn't taken on massive proportions like that of a few weeks ago. what do you know? you fight off a distraction by getting distracted with something else! but make sure you have a deadline for that, so that the distraction does not become an object of obssession as well...

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

pathetic is as pathetic does

i have three songs in lss mode. the first one is coldplay's speed of sound. not that surprising with the airplay it's been getting, but considering the way i felt about the band before this record, it was a miracle. this is one song i loved from a band i hated (the other one is be yourself by audioslave). not that i'm changing my mind about the previous singles, i just changed my mind about the band. now i can be an authentic fan of brit music.

the next one is u2's sunday bloody sunday. it was almost two weeks ago when i met up with ness and i dropped over at tower to look at the merchandise. they are having a full blast promotion of the old u2 albums, and for the first time i listened to some live albums, which featured the song. it has a different sound when performed live, and i loved it.

the last one is an uncanny choice, constantly by vanessa williams. i kept hearing the song left and right because of nina and mymp, but it stuck because it describes partly what state i'm in right now. however much i try, i can't seem to avoid it. can't seem to think of anything else.

Saturday, July 23, 2005

sunday bloody sunday

times are rare when sunday seems like a real weekend. today there are no worries, no anxieties, no last-minute fuss. the whole day is devoted to the serious business of bumming, chilling out, and watching csi ny reruns, without having to think of waking up early tomorrow.

the weather isn't the best, but just cool enough to help me keep my mind on track. ha. that's funny. as if i would dare tell what nonsense i've been working on.

i can't believe the news today
oh, i can't close my eyes and make it go away

how long...
how long must we sing this song?
how long? how long...
'cause tonight... we can be as one tonight

broken bottles under children's feet
bodies strewn across the dead end street
but i won't heed the battle call
it puts my back up
puts my back up against the wall

sunday, bloody sunday
sunday, bloody sunday
sunday, bloody sunday
alright let's go

and the battle's just begun
there's many lost, but tell me who has won
the trench is dug within our hearts
and mothers, children, brothers,
sisters torn apart

sunday, bloody sunday
sunday, bloody sunday

how long...
how long must we sing this song?
how long? how long...
'cause tonight... we can be as one tonight...

wipe the tears from your eyes
wipe your tears away
i'll wipe your tears away
i'll wipe your tears away
oh, wipe your blood shot eyes

sunday, bloody sunday
sunday, bloody sunday
yeah let's go

and it's true we are immune
when fact is fiction and tv reality
and today the millions cry
we eat and drink while tomorrow they die

the real battle yet begun
to claim the victory jesus won
on...

sunday bloody sunday
sunday bloody sunday

-- u2, sunday bloody sunday