1. This isn't my favorite song on the album, but it is the one I find going on repeat in my head all the time. Single stuff.
  2. I dont really like the pre-chours verse/part:
    Hold me close, hold me close and don't let me go
    Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know....


    Sounds like a bad eurovision song

    However, the chorus and verses are really good. And the rest of the song after this part is just amazing:
    The stars are bright but do they know
    The universe is beautiful but cold


    Especially the last two lines of the track

    Also, im not sure what to think of this line:
    Iris says that I will be the death of her
    It was not me


    Its a beautiful lyric, but isn't it somewhat blunt?
  3. Can't get into this one as much. Sounds too much like an ATYCLB throwaway
  4. Originally posted by blink:I dont really like the pre-chours verse/part:
    Hold me close, hold me close and don't let me go
    Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know....


    Sounds like a bad eurovision song

    However, the chorus and verses are really good. And the rest of the song after this part is just amazing:
    The stars are bright but do they know
    The universe is beautiful but cold


    Especially the last two lines of the track

    Also, im not sure what to think of this line:
    Iris says that I will be the death of her
    It was not me


    Its a beautiful lyric, but isn't it somewhat blunt?

    My interpretation of that line, "It was not me", he felt guilty that he was a pain in the arse when he was young and somehow drove her to death. Maybe he is coming to terms with it now, and trying to free his soul of the guilt??
  5. ^ Yeah, that "It was not me" part is heartbreaking. To me, Bono says "it was not me" as any kid says it when they meant "sorry, mom".
  6. Bart didn't know who Iris was ?! Someone please take away his U2-fancard.

    I don't get it : Edge sings a happy oeh-oeh-oeh while Bono sings a sad Iriiiisss. That's messed up. There are sad and happy parts overall in there. Musically and lyrically. But then again, that's also the way you remember someone you've lost...
  7. Best song on the album for me.....
  8. from Brian Boyds article in The Irish Times:
    This new U2 album could be read as Bono’s All About My Mother. The song Iris (Hold Me Close) – Iris is his mother’s name – finds him singing about her untimely death. “The ache in my heart is so much a part of who I am . . . Hold me close and don’t let me go . . . I’ve got your life inside of me . . . We’re meeting up again.”

    Standing up and walking around the room, he highlights a lyric in the song. “I sing this verse which has ‘Iris standing in the hall, she tells me I can do it all,’ and then there’s a typical mother’s line when she says to me, ‘You’ll be the death of me.’ But it wasn’t me. I wasn’t the death of her. I was not the death of her.”

    “The mother is so, so important in rock music. Show me a great singer and I’ll show you someone who lost their mother early on. There’s Paul McCartney, there’s John Lennon. Look at Bob Geldof and what happened to his mother.

    “In hip hop, by contrast, it’s all about the father – being abandoned by the father and being brought up by a single mother. But for me it’s all about the mother. I had rage and grief for my mother. I still have rage and grief for my mother. I channelled those emotions in music, and I still do. I have very few memories of my mother, but all of them are in the song Iris.”


  9. Classic.
    The way bono sings the 'iris' part is quite haunting. Beautiful
  10. Chris Martin on backing vocals here actually.