Though he said he saw things there “that are really hard to explain,” he felt that through the band they could communicate what was happening via song. “I’m blessed because I’m part of the U2 group and they’re really good.

They have an ability to express inexpressible thoughts,” he says. The song’s lyrics took aim at President Ronald Reagan. The song’s lyrics were inspired by a trip Bono and his wife, Ali, took to Central America, where U.S.

He spoke with Edge about what he’d been through in El Salvador, and with a “nod to Jimi Hendrix,” Edge put the “fear and loathing” into his guitar solo on the song. Bullet the Blue Sky represents U2 at perhaps their most caustic. “We strapped my feelings to the song ‘Bullets the Blue Sky,” he recounts. He then went on to explain how the lyrics developed. “I used the language of the Scripture to describe the situation: ‘In the howling wind comes a stinging rain / See it driving nails /Into the souls in the tree of pain / From a firefly, a red orange glow / See the face of fear / Running scared on the valley below/ Bullet the blue sky.”Īs for the character Bono created that’s described in the lyrics as having a “face red like a rose in a thorn bush” and who’s “peeling off those dollar bills”? That was Ronald Reagan. “As a student of non-violence I had a violent reaction to what I was witnessing,” he explains.

Michael from Cincinnati, Oh This song was covered by Christian rock band Human on their 1998 album Out Of The Dust. The video is part of Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics exhibit, which will premiere at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on May 20th and will run through November 27th. Lyrics to Bullet The Blue Sky U2 Artistfacts Michael from Cincinnati, Oh Human's cover is buried about 4:52 into the track 'Hand Me Down', starting about 20 or 30 seconds after that song actually ends. Bullet The Blue Sky - YouTube 0:00 / 4:32 Bullet The Blue Sky U2 2.64M subscribers Subscribe 5.4K 342K views 4 years ago Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Bullet The. The exhibit, which explores important socio-political topics in the U.S. Through rock music, features more than 50 artists and political figures.

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