A description of the song from an article:
With soaring strings and a haunting piano melody, the tune is remarkably different to the stadium rock sound of their recent smash hit album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It is huge but in a very different way and for a very different reason; Bono is learning to play piano.
"I think that is going to be our biggest song in a long time. It’s a psychedelic pop song with 6/8 timing. You never hear that, it’s very, very rare"
"It’s a song that every generation has to sing, it’s the eternal song. It’s about what’s possible and still everything is possible.â€
The shackles are undone
the bullet's quit the gun
the heat that's in the sun
will keep us when there's none
the rule has been disproved
the story has been moved
the grain is now a groove
all debts are removed
oh can't you see what our love has done
oh can't you see what our love has done
oh can't you see what our love has done
what it's doing to me
(awesome guitar)
love makes strange enemies
makes love where love may please
so that (it should/if you) tease
hate brought to its knees
the sky over our head
we can reach it form our bed
if you let me in your heart
and out of my head
oh can't you see what our love has done
oh can't you see what our love has done
oh can't you see what our love has done
what it's doing to me
oooh oooh oh oooooooh
oooh oooh oh oooooooh
please don't ever let me out of here
i've got no shaaaaaame oh no oh no
oh can't you see what love has done
oh can't you see
oh can't you see what love has done
what it's doing to me
i know i hurt you and i made you cry
did everything but murder you and i
but love left a window in the skies
and to love i rhapsodize
oh can't you see hwat love has done
to every broken heart
oh can't you see what love has done (continues in bkgrd)
for every heart cries
love left a window in the skies
and to love i rhapsodize