All That You Can't Leave Behind

"Seems I'm a free man..." -Unknown

I really can't figure out why I've got such a thing for U2 lately. I just can't stop listening to their music, and I'm constantly teaching myself the guitar riffs and bass grooves for their songs.

When I came to the Police's music, it was due to my first real encounter with love, and those songs got me through rather hard times. Each song seemed to somehow describe me in different ways. "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", my favorite song, is about a boy who has been in love with this girl for such a long time, yet never had the courage to tell her. That was exactly the case with the Third. Other songs, like "King of Pain" and "Walking On The Moon", are more self explanatory to describe how I was feeling, but the fun-filled and reggae-tinged "So Lonely" (which is a song about loneliness sung in a happy-go-lucky way) pushed me to continue being my usual hyper energetic self.

So I fell in love again, and it seemed there was another band to raise to the challenge; U2. I really began to pay attention to them after watching their Live Aid Concert performance from 1985, which featured "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Bad". "Bad" really melded with me for some reason, especially the way Bono was so emotionally attached to ever word he sang. I pulled out the old Best Of albums I had gotten for Christmas a few years back, and started to understand why they were so popular. They were simple, but they were good! "Beautiful Day", "Mysterious Ways", "I Will Follow", "Walk On". Especially "Walk On". All of these began to describe my feelings, and it was refreshing to find new old music.

Now I'm on my own again. I wonder what band I'll find next? ^.^

"And if your glass heart should crack, and for a second you turn back...oh no...be strong. Oh, oh, walk on!" -U2

-dL