Love is the Higher Law
“Madison Square Garden. October 27, 2001.And it’s not like U2 was my favorite band or anything. I thought “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” were incredible, mind-twisting, truth-laid-bare songs. But other than that, Bono had never really reached me. When All That You Can’t Leave Behind came out in November 2000, I loved “Beautiful Day” and liked the rest of the album. But it was just an album. I appreciated it, but didn’t need it.September changed that.The so...ng I latched onto most, the song that I would play ten times in a row because I needed to hear it all ten times, was “Walk On.” It was that unexpected, almost religious thing: the right song at the right time.And it wasn’t because they were big rock stars. Instead it was the opposite of that. I think one of the reasons they’ve spoken to so many Americans right after 9/11 is because they know what we’re going through. They lived through Ireland in the ’70s and the ’80s.MoreLess
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