Saturday night, I saw U2 at Soldier Field in Chicago. I keep trying to write about it but I either start talking about how amazing they sounded or how I can't believe that it took me like 20 years to see this band live and I still can't manage to give a decent summation of just how amazing the whole experience was. Also, there is no way to say you had some sort of visceral or spiritual experience when they encored the second time with “With or Without You” without sounding like a douche, so I’m not even going to try.
Some of the great moments for me:
*Hearing the opening chords of "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and having the band stop playing entirely while the sold out 60,000 person audience sang their hearts out, acapella.
*Looking around me while I'm rocking out to "Pride" and thinking to myself that this fucking rocks.
*Being completely moved when Bono, saying goodnight after the second encore, looks out into the audience and says, "Thank you for giving us this amazing life."
That still makes me tear up a little bit.
Great review of the show here.
Saturday in general was probably one of the best days I've had in the last ten years and for more reasons than just the concert. I am on the precipice of some amazing happenings and even with all my doubts and insecurities, I just know in my gut that things are going to work out the way I want them to. Me one year ago would scoff at such a statement, but the me now is seeing the world in a much different light. And I'm thinking that perhaps articulating what you want, even if just to yourself, somehow sets the universe in motion, and maybe that knocks over a book that blows out a candle, and eventually leads you to falling in love with a guy you knew in high school, which in turn inspires you to pursue what your truly passionate about and even if you end up with a broken heart, realizing it isn't all in vain.
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Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did
And hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin
I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone
Or anything at all
Who's to say where the wind will take you?
Who's to say what it is will break you?
I don't know, which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around?
Don't want to see you cry
I know that kiss is not goodbye
It's summer, I can taste the salt of the sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on the breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me...
I'm a man, I'm not a child...
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes
Who's to say where the wind will take you?
Who's to say what it is will break you?
I don't know, where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around?
I don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye
Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Rooftop to the basement
The last of the rock stars
When hip hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
That was the big idea
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