Friday, February 24, 2006
The Bomb Part 3 1/2: From Anality to Freedom via Loud Creativity
It is either among his most cringeworthy/corny lines or among his most profound/prophetic.
Likely both.
When Bono sings "Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby's head;" his passion borders on the embarassingly exhibitionistic; he means it. One can almost watch him pushing past the cringe factor; knowing it will morph into, and unloose the prophetic...if only enough veins pop in his neck. He is giving birth himself, perhaps. At the very least, he is shamelessly singing for his life; maybe even to maintain his wobbly freedom.
Almost as if keeping his day job and eternal salvation secure was proportionate to his (and our)abandonment to the truth of the
CONTINUED: here