Last weekend I took a trip to Chicago. My good friends were getting married. For several different reasons, curiosity only one of them, I decided to take a train from DC to Chicago. Yeah, I spend 37 hours of my weekend on the train. I got to do things I usually don't have enough time to do. I read a book, I slept a lot and I listened to my music, without doing anything else (no internet connection on that train).
On my iPod I have 4 U2 albums. My favorite Joshua Tree and the three newest albums. As I was listening on shuffle I came to the song called Yahweh, which is on the album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
I know this song, it is one of my favorites when it comes to U2, and that time on the train I enjoyed it and moved on. The next day I had to go back to this song and I couldn't stop listening to it. I was just turning it on over and over again on my way to work and back.
Here are the lyrics, the bold parts are my personal favorites.
Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn
Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Don't make a fist
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn
Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?
Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city
If it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break
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