1. My top 3 songs on the record. Easily.
  2. Has anyone else noticed this?

    The ending of Landlady ties in with Surrender? Surrender keeps popping into my head. The sounds are very similar towards the end of both songs.
  3. Originally posted by kobrien:Has anyone else noticed this?

    The ending of Landlady ties in with Surrender? Surrender keeps popping into my head. The sounds are very similar towards the end of both songs.
    Surrender? The War song?
  4. Originally posted by ultravioletPOPstar:After a few listens of the album, this is one of my favorite tracks. I hope they play it, but I am afraid it won't make it to the setlist. One can always hope!
    This will be a snooze fest live. I hope they don’t play it. The majority of the audience hasn’t been into the new stuff live since the vertigo tour and a mid tempo anti-climactic song like this will be bad.
  5. N.2 album Song.great tune
  6. Yes Surrender from War. The ending sound of landlady takes me to the 2:50 point of surrender. Similar sounds I guess for my non musician ears
  7. I really love the first verse because I feel like is "too specific" to be made up.
    Which means that I believe that scene actually happened (the "you have a key" and the "how do you know it's me?" part)... I like the line either if it happened or not, but if I believe that that actually happened, I get really emotional with it...
  8. Yeah...i agree.too personal
    I can image Bono coming home drunk in the night with Ali screaming ":you have the key!!!"
    And Bono... How you Know it's...ich....me?
  9. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
    I really love the first verse because I feel like is "too specific" to be made up.
    Which means that I believe that scene actually happened (the "you have a key" and the "how do you know it's me?" part)... I like the line either if it happened or not, but if I believe that that actually happened, I get really emotional with it...
    To me it means bono coming home from a long tour or something like that and feeling anxious and slightly disconnected or even changed (hence I ask you how you know it’s me), but Ali still trusts him so she doesn’t need to let him in (only figuratively, of course) because it is still his home, he has the key. And he can’t quite understand how she does it

    edit: I edited it a bit to make ir clearer
  10. Originally posted by marianarielli:[..]
    To me it means bono coming home from a long tour or something like that and feeling anxious and slightly disconnected or even changed (hence I ask you how you know it’s me), but Ali still trusts him and lets him in (and he can’t quite understand how she does it)
    Oh, the poetic explanation, it's awesome!
    he's said a few times something to that extent, so I assumed it was something like that (although your post put it a lot clearer). No doubt is more beautiful this way, but I feel more emotional if I believe that it actually happened in real life...
  11. Like it at first listen, love it later but it became haunting after the lines " the strangers that protected me / to bring me back to you " suddenly hit me. To me, it's what Bono felt at the moment when he almost die, like the bike accident in NYC or the terrorist attack in Nice. And he truly felt blessed that some people saved him so that he had a chance to get back to his lady. That's simply so touching.
  12. Originally posted by grace:Like it at first listen, love it later but it became haunting after the lines " the strangers that protected me / to bring me back to you " suddenly hit me. To me, it's what Bono felt at the moment when he almost die, like the bike accident in NYC or the terrorist attack in Nice. And he truly felt blessed that some people saved him so that he had a chance to get back to his lady. That's simply so touching.
    Yes. When I hear that line I also think of all the tours Bono has been on with the band and especially during the Zoo TV era the interesting situations he sometimes found himself in...and yet he always found his way back home, sometimes despite himself. Same with the line "every dawn that woke me was to get me home to you" = waking up in yet another hotel room, anticipating another show but also ready to go home?

    Love the "every wave that broke me" line as a callback to Every Breaking Wave.

    Love the lines "every false emotion" and "how unswerving our devotion to the lies we know are almost true." And "every sweet confusion" and "every grand illusion." Where other writers would often resort to sentimental, overly positive lyrics to end a "love song" like this, I have always admired Bono's admission that real commitment in marriage is the "grand madness" and often difficult, so let's not sugarcoat the bad things. Makes the song more powerful for me.

    Basically, I love everything about that final coda - probably my favorite part on the entire SOE album.