#Show me a big mac wrapper movie

In the most recent album Bono chants “let me in the sound, let me in the sound”, and in many ways that is the secret to his remarkable lyric writing. Still I am a bit stunned that the incredibly obvious references to the Bible (including a reference on the front of “all you can’t leave behind to a verse in Jeremiah that Bono calls God’s phone number) and theological truth seem to go without notice by the majority. In fact he makes a point of saying that the songs mean different things to different people and that’s how he wants it to be.

It surprises me that Bono never corrects people about the songs. One review in Time magazine of “all that you can’t leave behind” said Grace was a love song to a girl, and another review in the same magazine a number of years later pronounced “magnificent” as a self-indulgent reference to Bono’s relationship with the audience. It has fascinated me just how many journalists miss completely the heart of the songs. They played a lot of older songs, a number I didn’t recognize at the time, but it was when Bono finished the concert with “40” and my friend leaned over to me and said “You know where this comes from don’t you?” that the penny dropped and I started to understand that behind most songs the band has written lies a deeper meaning than is immediately obvious to the thousands of fans who sing along at the concerts.

#Show me a big mac wrapper movie

My affection became a deep love when on one day my friends and I went to see the movie at the cinema and then that evening were within spitting distance from the stage at the Sydney entertainment centre when they joined BB King for the love comes to town tour. I first came across “the boys” in grade eleven as they released Rattle and Hum. Not only that, I would have to create a new category on the blog, because for me the wrestle with faith has a soundtrack.

I realised this morning as I donned my concert t-shirt sent to me by my sister and brother-in-law, that I would need to explain my love for the band U2. The wrestle with faith has an Irish soundtrack.