![]() I feel a long way from the hills of San Salvador Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister ![]() Hillstreet Blues and a preacher on the Old Time Gospel Hour Her lover's turning off, turning on the televisionĪnd I can't tell the difference between ABC News Outside it's America, outside it's AmericaĪnd in the next room I hear a woman scream out ![]() We take the key and slowly unlock the door Through the valleys and the quiet city streets Lapping them down one hundred, two hundredĪcross the mud huts where the children sleep In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum There was much sadness in this song for sure.In the howling wind comes a stinging rain (From left, Adam Clayton, Larry McMullen Jr., Bono and The Edge of the band U2 in an image for The Joshua Tree).Īlso inspired by a trip Bono took to Central America in 1985 during an El Savaldor Civil War, Mothers of the Disappeared sings of the Comadres, a group of women who had lost their children, who were taken in the night by death squads of the El Salvador Civil War. Bono is quoted in reference to this song as wanting to go beyond an abstract criticism of foreign policy by taking a look at “the violence we all contain within us.” (See our review of the Mailer book here). The friend lost is Greg Carroll, a Maori from New Zealand whose work ethic and friendship is praised by the song and the band.Įxit is said to be inspired by two books looking at famous murders, namely by Norman Mailer‘s The Executioner’s Song and Truman Capote‘s In Cold Blood. The song of a friendship prematurely lost comes alive with One Tree Hill. Using a bluesy harmonica and drums baseline, getting caught up in an entanglement seems inevitable. Trip Through Your Wires sings of a relationship between a man and woman where the singer feels like the pun he plays on the notion of a trip wire works against him emotionally. In God’s Country moves to the politics of the United States, the ethos represented by The Statue of Liberty, and what politics of the mid-1980s means to that ethos. ![]() A political homily of a song, the look is speaking of the humanity that is central to the worldview of the band U2. Red Hill Mining Town opens the second side of The Joshua Tree album with a look at the human cost of a miner’s strike in the United Kingdom. (From left, Larry McMullen Jr., Bono, Adam Clayton and The Edge of the band U2 in an image for The Joshua Tree). Smuggling heroin into Dublin, Ireland is the subject matter, with some ruminations for how somebody gets themselves into such a place that this is their chosen path. Running to Stand Still is the final song from the first of two sides of The Joshua Tree album. Inspired by a trip Bono took to Central America in 1985 with Amnesty International, Bullet the Blue Sky was inspired by staying with a group of guerillas in the middle of El Salvador mountains in the north of the country. That the song lends itself both to the intensity of a personal relationship plus that of the band with its fan lets me appreciate this song all the more. The issues very well could have been the object of real relationships. With or Without You is the song of a tortured relationship. Gospel music is said to have been an inspiration for this song. The allusion to olive turning to rust, for example, is a clear reference to colors representing the Catholic and Protestant divide of Ireland from U2′s youth.Īccording to Bono from a magazine interview, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For is “an anthem of doubt more than faith,” as opposed to an anthem for love or spiritual enlightenment one might think at first listen. Therefore, the song carries the political conscious that is a hallmark of the band U2. Where the Streets Have No Name opens the album by introducing fans what it means to the neighborhood divisions of wealth, religion, and cultural standing in Ireland that knowing the streets people live on tells you more about a person than the legitimate name of the streets. (The 1987 cover of The Joshua Tree album by the band U2). into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, which recognizes the band’s switch from a Post Punk sound to a distinctly pop sound recognized in this 1987 album. Bruce Springsteen inducted Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album for Irish rock band U2.
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