1. The album standard version is a good tune though sounds familiar u2 rock tune, the solo and the ending make the song. The strings version makes the first half of the song much more interesting and different. Prefer this version. Did they do this on the bbc with an orchestra?
  2. Great song, currently my favourite of this LP. Curious to hear your mix Sergio, can we hear it online somewhere?
  3. Ok, a bit of lyric interpretation.

    I'm assuming that when he "sees the lights of home" he's talking about that light you're supposed to see when you're dying.

    Well, since the first time I listened to it, I thought the line "do you know my name?..." was very powerful, and I just assumed that he was saying it to Jesus, with "where I'm going?" meaning if he's going to the Good Place or the Bad Place.


    But although that was in the back of my head, I wanted to find the right bible quote in which I was basing that assumption, so here's what I think was making me think that:

    He said to them, “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading:

    ‘Sir, open the door for us.’

    But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

    Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

    But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'


    Maybe not big deal, but to me that makes the line very powerful, in a song that he's facing death and a sort of crisis of faith.
  4. Originally posted by Bloodraven:Ok, a bit of lyric interpretation.

    I'm assuming that when he "sees the lights of home" he's talking about that light you're supposed to see when you're dying.

    Well, since the first time I listened to it, I thought the line "do you know my name?..." was very powerful, and I just assumed that he was saying it to Jesus, with "where I'm going?" meaning if he's going to the Good Place or the Bad Place.
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    But although that was in the back of my head, I wanted to find the right bible quote in which I was basing that assumption, so here's what I think was making me think that:

    [..]


    Maybe not big deal, but to me that makes the line very powerful, in a song that he's facing death and a sort of crisis of faith.
    That's the impression I got too! Makes it really powerful.
  5. Originally posted by Bloodraven:Ok, a bit of lyric interpretation.

    I'm assuming that when he "sees the lights of home" he's talking about that light you're supposed to see when you're dying.

    Well, since the first time I listened to it, I thought the line "do you know my name?..." was very powerful, and I just assumed that he was saying it to Jesus, with "where I'm going?" meaning if he's going to the Good Place or the Bad Place.
    [image]

    But although that was in the back of my head, I wanted to find the right bible quote in which I was basing that assumption, so here's what I think was making me think that:

    [..]


    Maybe not big deal, but to me that makes the line very powerful, in a song that he's facing death and a sort of crisis of faith.
    Do you know the passage in the Bible where you took that from?
  6. I'm getting a bit of a rocked out Johnny Cash vibe here...in the verses at least.
  7. I like your connection here. I also see possible inspiration from John 14:5, where “doubting Thomas” asks Jesus, “Lord, we don’t know where you’re going, how can we know the way?”

    (And there’s the reference to being “born again” in the second verse from John 3, too.)
  8. I was thinking about this earlier—I think we should have expected those lyrics at the end (“free yourself to be yourself / if only you could see yourself”) to come back on this album, given how hard Bono tried to make that a thing on the last tour...so this album, he made it absolutely clear that there was no way around having a large crowd of people chanting/singing his mother’s words...

    ...kinda cool, actually.
  9. Originally posted by Bloodraven:Ok, a bit of lyric interpretation.

    I'm assuming that when he "sees the lights of home" he's talking about that light you're supposed to see when you're dying.

    Well, since the first time I listened to it, I thought the line "do you know my name?..." was very powerful, and I just assumed that he was saying it to Jesus, with "where I'm going?" meaning if he's going to the Good Place or the Bad Place.
    [image]

    But although that was in the back of my head, I wanted to find the right bible quote in which I was basing that assumption, so here's what I think was making me think that:

    [..]


    Maybe not big deal, but to me that makes the line very powerful, in a song that he's facing death and a sort of crisis of faith.
    You deserve the just-created High Quality Post Lifetime Award.
  10. it's a song about dying, or near dying.

    the lights can be interpreted in many different ways, and i think that's the point; the sirens from the ambulance, the lights on the operating table, the light at the end of the tunnel that people reference on their death bed, and lastly, it could be his mother in heaven.

    They call back to the song Iris at the end - this can't be coincidental, or just because they liked it.

    Do you know my name? In your eyes I see it, the lights of home.

    He's speaking to what will happen when he sees his mother in heaven.