Book of your heart

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Book of your heart
« on: December 06, 2017, 07:29:19 PM »
Think I’ve figured out every song except this one - anyone got any idea what this masterpiece is about? They’re the best lyrics on the album for me, but I can’t decipher them
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Re: Book of your heart
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2017, 08:48:49 PM »
Oops, I put my interpretation on the other thread entitled "Book of Your Heart".

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Re: Book of your heart
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2017, 09:33:06 PM »
Oops it looks like I’ve yet again started a duplicate thread


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Re: Book of your heart
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2017, 05:16:27 PM »
Really like the song. Only problem for me is that it sounds too similar to an Interpol song. Can't figure out which one yet, but I'll find it.

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Re: Book of your heart
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2024, 02:08:16 AM »
I don't find the other thread, so I will post here.,

First of all, the phrase 'Book 0f Your Heart" is from The Bible, the Message translation by Bono's friend Eugene Peterson.

Psalms 18:24-34 "God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes."

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And Bono wrote in the deluxe liner notes:
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'NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE MALE EGO DARLING’, AS MARIANNE FAITHFULL PUT IT. I GET IT. THE MID-LIFE CRISIS OF THINKING YOU’RE NOT HAVING ONE.

LOVE HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUR NUMBER ONE SUBJECT BUT LOVE IS NOT ALWAYS LOVING. ‘ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH FOR ORDINARY LOVE?’ IS THE RIGHT QUESTION. SO MANY SONGS SKATE AROUND THIS SUBJECT, BUT THE TWO EXTRA TRACKS ON THE ALBUM DO NOT.

AS COLD AS A CONTRACT IS THE BOOK OF YOUR HEART.

I WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT COLD PASSION. I REREAD YEATS IN THE FISHERMAN WHERE HE SPEAKS OF HIS DESIRE FOR A POETRY ‘AS COLD AND PASSIONATE AS THE DAWN’.

I TRIED TO THINK THAT THROUGH, I CAME UP WITH ‘THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF THE SCAR’

THAT IS THE CONTRACT OF THE HEART’.

IT’S A KIND OF REFERENCE TO MARRIAGE, TO THE PLEDGE OF RELATIONSHIPS. THERE IS A COST TO THE PLEDGES MADE IN YOUNG LOVE BUT IN THE END THE COST IS NEVER HIGH ENOUGH, IS IT?

(IT’S SO WORTH IT.)


IF IT’S ANYWHERE INTERESTING WRITING WILL ALWAYS UNCOVER THE WRITER AND I WANTED TO DIVE NAKED INTO THESE SONGS OF EXPERIENCE.

NOT JUST SKINNY DIPPING WITH THE ONES I LOVE. I WANTED TO TAKE MY SKIN OFF.

PERFORMING IS ALWAYS A STRIPTEASE BUT IN WRITING YOU UNCOVER STUFF YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU WEREN’T WEARING. YOU EXPOSE YOURSELF.
https://digilander.libero.it/u2anchetu/t_soe_note.html
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Re: Book of your heart
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2024, 09:06:21 AM »
I wanted to read that, I really did, but Shouty Bono is just intolerable.
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