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Old Post 02-16-2007 04:14 PM - Jesus showing up in Window in the Skies...
So I was listening to WITS last week when the lyric suddenly "clicked" with me for the first time... if it's not how anyone else interprets it, that's totally fine, but I find it entirely possible for the "window in the skies" to be salvation...

The shackles are undone
The bullets quit the gun
The heat thats in the sun
Will keep us when there's none

The rule has been disproved
The stone has been moved
The grain is now a groove
All debts are removed, ooh

> The whole "chains being dropped" imagery there...


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

>"see what our love has done, is doing to me"... could be God's love working through a person

Love makes strange enemies
Makes love when love may please
Soul in a strip tease
Hate brought to its knees

Sky over our head
Can reach it from our bed
If you let me in your heart
And out of my head

>It was actually the last two lines of this verse that made me think about this song in that light - "you let me in your heart and out of my head" ... isn't that, really, what we're asking God to do? Let us into his heart and out of our sinful selves?


Oh I know I hurt you and I made you cry
Did everything but murder but you and I
But love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize

>And then that whole last stanza seems like a pretty cool verse of praise...

Believe me, I hate it when people over spiritualize things, but I think the God-reading of this song is fairly relevant to it.

T

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Old Post 02-16-2007 04:18 PM -
I purposely and determinedly try NOT to read that into the song when I hear it. It's almost impossible to deny the message there, but if you try really really hard (like me) you can pretend you don't see the religious imagery and enjoy the song despite it.


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Old Post 02-17-2007 05:37 AM -
One of Bono's great talents is that he speaks in Biblical metaphor quite naturally and so those who have that frame of reference will recognize the imagery. But he is also vague enough that someone without that frame of reference will find their own interpretation without being lost at sea so to speak.

In the Conversations book Assayas comments on the fact that even when answering questions that have nothing to do with religion Bono would often use biblical imagery or metaphor in his answers. I've noticed that he also will use sexual imagery to talk about spiritual things and biblical imagery to talk about sex. LOL

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Old Post 02-18-2007 05:02 AM - Re: Jesus showing up in Window in the Skies...
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Originally posted by tommycharles
So I was listening to WITS last week when the lyric suddenly "clicked" with me for the first time... if it's not how anyone else interprets it, that's totally fine, but I find it entirely possible for the "window in the skies" to be salvation...

The shackles are undone
The bullets quit the gun
The heat thats in the sun
Will keep us when there's none

The rule has been disproved
The stone has been moved
The grain is now a groove
All debts are removed, ooh

> The whole "chains being dropped" imagery there...


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

>"see what our love has done, is doing to me"... could be God's love working through a person

Love makes strange enemies
Makes love when love may please
Soul in a strip tease
Hate brought to its knees

Sky over our head
Can reach it from our bed
If you let me in your heart
And out of my head

>It was actually the last two lines of this verse that made me think about this song in that light - "you let me in your heart and out of my head" ... isn't that, really, what we're asking God to do? Let us into his heart and out of our sinful selves?


Oh I know I hurt you and I made you cry
Did everything but murder but you and I
But love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize

>And then that whole last stanza seems like a pretty cool verse of praise...

Believe me, I hate it when people over spiritualize things, but I think the God-reading of this song is fairly relevant to it.

T


i thought very similar things when i first heard this song

excellent

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Old Post 02-20-2007 11:01 AM -
you are correct of course,

however up until this thread I hadn't thought of it in those terms.

I'd heard it as a love song. funny that.

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One of Bono's great talents is that he speaks in Biblical metaphor quite naturally and so those who have that frame of reference will recognize the imagery. But he is also vague enough that someone without that frame of reference will find their own interpretation without being lost at sea so to speak.

In the Conversations book Assayas comments on the fact that even when answering questions that have nothing to do with religion Bono would often use biblical imagery or metaphor in his answers. I've noticed that he also will use sexual imagery to talk about spiritual things and biblical imagery to talk about sex. LOL

Dana




It really is amazing and an incredible gift he has.


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Old Post 02-25-2007 12:52 AM -
Well, he's gotta do something for us dirty-minded atheists....

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Well, he's gotta do something for us dirty-minded atheists....


ha ha, yeah, sort it out.

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i'm sorry. those conclusions make no sense.

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Personally I think the songs are about Africa and what we can do to stop poverty within it. We do have the money and all that but the prime Minister won't help out as much as he should do, sorry to those who disagree with my idea. What I am saying is that the whole song must be telling us to do what we can and help those who are less fortunate. WITS x (Ps: That is my login name)

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Old Post 03-29-2007 07:01 AM -
When I first heard it I thought he was singing

Oh can't you see what the Lord has done.

I had to google the lyrics.

"the stone has been moved" I think is fairly obvious ressurection imagery.

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"the stone has been moved" I think is fairly obvious ressurection imagery.



yeah, that's the most obvious of the lot


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Personally I think the songs are about Africa and what we can do to stop poverty within it. We do have the money and all that but the prime Minister won't help out as much as he should do, sorry to those who disagree with my idea. What I am saying is that the whole song must be telling us to do what we can and help those who are less fortunate. WITS x (Ps: That is my login name)



I don't disagree----I think that's the intent of the song, or at least part of it. But looking at the whole body of Bono's lyrical work, you'll see biblical references in dozens of songs, many of which aren't necessarily intended to be biblical/religious at all.

Springing to mind is "after the flood all the colors came out" of BD....among many, many more.


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....could just be a stone in his shoe....
...I know how painfull that can be myself.....

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....could just be a stone in his shoe....
...I know how painfull that can be myself.....


RFLMAO..............Um.........................No

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