Songwriters: Hewson, Paul; Mullen, Larry (jr); Evans, Dave; Clayton, Adam
And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was
Lying still
Said I gotta do something
About where we're going
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night
Singing ha, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la de day
Sweet the sin
Bitter taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out
You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
You know I took the poison
From the poison stream
Then I floated out of here
Singing...ha la la la de day
Ha la la la de day
Ha la la de day
She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging
She is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes
She will...
The meaning to this song jumped out to me immediately through the intensity of the song itself. It is a sure, but slow build up of emotion and thought that stays under control.
What it means to me mirrors the feeling I get listening to it...she is plagued with something in her life that she cannot control, and she has to keep her feelings to herself...so she just thinks and does not say how she is feeling. With all that emotion in her head, she has to keep calm, and the only thing she says outloud is "Ha la la la de day
Ha la la de day", so that no-one knows how she is hurting inside.
She is "running to stand still," because she is trying to get out of the situation, while going unnoticed...almost like she is a battered woman, and put on a beautiful face, and happy and content front to her man, so that he won't beat her anymore...while planning her excape..She is raging inside, but she will "suffer the needle chill," in order to protect herself. She cries without weeping, talks without speaking, screams without raising her voice...because she is trapped in a life of pain.
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