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I was there for you, baby When you needed my help Would you deny for others What you demand for yourself? Cool down mama, cool off Cool down mama, cool off You speak of sights and wonders I need something other I would believe if I was able But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table You were pretty as a picture It was all there to see Then your face caught up with your psychology With a mouth full of teeth You ate all your friends And you broke every heart thinking every heart mends You speak of signs and wonders But I need something other I would believe if I was able But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table Where you live should not decide Whether you live or whether you die Three to a bed Sister Ann, she said Dignity passes by And you speak of signs and wonders But I need something other I would believe if I was able I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table, hey Edit Lyrics.
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No, I really don't think its to do with tAfrica at all. It sounds like Bono is talking about someone he finds mysterious "You speak of signs and wonders I need something other" It also sounds like this person is very talented, "You had so much to offer". I also get the impression that this person treated others cruelly. It sounds like this person's ego then got too big "your face caught up with your psychology With a mouth full of teeth You ate all your friends" This is not how someone speaks about a country.
People don't feel this way about countries Floyddead on October 17, Your request is granted. General Comment Though you might look at it somewhat either way I think, like Montrose, that he is doing good where he is. Who else is in the unique position that Bono is in to influence people of political power? We've all heard it said that politicians listen to him. Bono has explicitly said that he had both America and the organized church in mind. The antagonism toward these two entities, America and the church, is not wholesale, but focuses on one particular idea—mercy.
Bono sees Christ as a figure who came to liberate people from bondage to many things, setting the example to follow. From the outside looking in, Bono sees America as the richest nation in the world that is being corrupted in many ways by its vanity and greed. The brightest star is America. The blackest whole is greed. This would not be uncommon for Bono to say either as he uses Satan as a ploy in much of his communication.
Bono has been heavily involved in promoting dept relief to Africa. He also is a preacher of Aids awareness in Africa. This year at least a million Africans, most of them young children, will die of malaria and two million will die of AIDS. Now, it seems that the tables have turned and America is not returning the favor in kind. Here, Bono sees the obligation of humanity to have mercy on humanity.
The implication is that America demands mercy for its own, but denies it to those who are outside. Here, Bono is holding the organized church responsible for, what he perceives to be, their lack of mercy. This is one of the primary reasons that he does not join a church. He believes that the church in America, the evangelical church should be leading the way in relief efforts, sharing what he believes to be an essential element of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Christ had mercy on her.
It is rather bleak. But I don't know: that's just my interpretation. I don't know what "three to a bed" means maybe something about each of us joining into a community of care and selflessness. Like many U2 songs this could mean 2 things or 3 or maybe 5 different things e. But I believe Theresa1's intepretation is most compeling. She rightly asserts that Bono is stealing from the New Testament concerning how many followers of Jesus keep demanding more and more signs and wonders to prove his claims.
It's probably about The Soviet Union also but my sense from the first time I heard it was that it was a personal song, meant for each of us specifically. I used to like these nuts until they went UN Socialist on us. The song is about the U.
He's a complete hypocrite. I read in an interview with bono that this song is about russia, and how they don't give back to their people and their people are suffering.
I wish I could remember the site I found that interview on That's gonna bother me now. This song is about how the American Government offers countries like Africa the 'crumbs' of their aide This is an example of adult spiritual spoiled brat syndrome.
It is yet another case of someone having an adequate chance to pursue a course of scriptural truths from God's word that they have heard of; but deciding to sit, rebel, test, and be insolent instead. People who really don't want to bother themselves with obeying ALL of God's commands make excuses. Jesus response to them was: "A wicked and adulterous generation keeps on seeking for a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah. With that he went away, leaving them behind. Nevertheless, many of these wicked people failed to change their mind even after this.
Whose "crumbs" is Bono waiting for - ones from Jesus, as in the biblical account this is obviously copped from? In that case, here's a question: Why? That makes no sense. If he's borrowing language right out of God's book, why is he ignoring its context? In the scriptural account, a Phoenician woman, not of the Jewish nation, which Jesus was assigned to help first, requested help from Jesus.
Jesus let her know by metaphor that at that time his service was to be primarily to the Jews; but she humbly responded: "Yes, Lord; but really the little dogs do eat of the crumbs falling from the table of their masters.
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