Why aren't "Got To Give" lyrics included?

BF25394 said:

quartered said:

Major snoozefest! 

Spunkie is likely 12-years-old and it's not clear to me that BF25394 knows how language works, so...

However, lastexitlondon has made a real leap - the one that Ed wishes had not led the character in Comes then Goes is none other than Vicky Cornell! This is not rocket science. I apologize, so sorry, about the sarcasm...

I have to admit that I sort of admire your outsized confidence despite having so little insight about art or people.

BF25394 said:

Spunkie said:

BF25394 said:

Spunkie said:

BF25394 said:

quartered said:

Are all of you morons?

It's about he and his wife, which he also references at the end of Upper Hand (goes from 'just need a few of you' - i.e., his wife and two daughters to 'maybe just the two of you' - only his two daughters) and Setting Sun (which is all about he and his wife). He doesn't want to be too overt about what he's alluding to in Got to Give (although Setting Sun is pretty direct, so not sure about that), but it's clear (although I guess you could argue it could be about any of his past relationships, but seems unlikely) there are four (well five - the daughters are kind of rolled up in one) main characters in the album - Chris Cornell, Trump, Ed's wife, Ed's daughters, then one for Jeff's wife (Won't Tell), and the whole Seattle scene remnants (Wreckage).

You're projecting a lot onto all of these songs. "Won't Tell" is about a dream that Jeff had about Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, not Jeff's wife. And sometimes, as in "Waiting for Stevie," Ed just invents characters and stories. Don't assume that these songs are autobiographical, other than "Something Special," which Ed has talked about. I don't hear "Wreckage" as being about Seattle; I hear it as being about America in a divided time, trying to figure a way out of the morass we've been in since Trump came down the escalator nine years ago and took our public discourse and politics to new lows.

Do you believe U2s vertigo video, too?

Refresh my memory. Isn't that the one where they're in silhouette? What about the video are you referencing?

The make up a bunch of stories about where the song supposedly came from.

Well, everyone should have been warned that they were dealing with an unreliable narrator when Bono skipped cuatro through trece when counting off at the start of the song.

kmcmanus said:

yosi said:

I have no actual knowledge what the songs are about, but I do have some vague memory of reading that Get it Back is about Chris Cornell. Can anyone corroborate that for me?

I thought it was too. I also thought maybe Matt wrote the lyrics (he definitely wrote the music) but I can’t find anything confirming or denying that now

BF25394 said:

Jimmydean55 said:

BF25394 said:

Spunkie said:

BF25394 said:

Spunkie said:

BF25394 said:

quartered said:

Are all of you morons?

It's about he and his wife, which he also references at the end of Upper Hand (goes from 'just need a few of you' - i.e., his wife and two daughters to 'maybe just the two of you' - only his two daughters) and Setting Sun (which is all about he and his wife). He doesn't want to be too overt about what he's alluding to in Got to Give (although Setting Sun is pretty direct, so not sure about that), but it's clear (although I guess you could argue it could be about any of his past relationships, but seems unlikely) there are four (well five - the daughters are kind of rolled up in one) main characters in the album - Chris Cornell, Trump, Ed's wife, Ed's daughters, then one for Jeff's wife (Won't Tell), and the whole Seattle scene remnants (Wreckage).

You're projecting a lot onto all of these songs. "Won't Tell" is about a dream that Jeff had about Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, not Jeff's wife. And sometimes, as in "Waiting for Stevie," Ed just invents characters and stories. Don't assume that these songs are autobiographical, other than "Something Special," which Ed has talked about. I don't hear "Wreckage" as being about Seattle; I hear it as being about America in a divided time, trying to figure a way out of the morass we've been in since Trump came down the escalator nine years ago and took our public discourse and politics to new lows.

Do you believe U2s vertigo video, too?

Refresh my memory. Isn't that the one where they're in silhouette? What about the video are you referencing?

The make up a bunch of stories about where the song supposedly came from.

Well, everyone should have been warned that they were dealing with an unreliable narrator when Bono skipped cuatro through trece when counting off at the start of the song.

Bono did that on purpose. Something about an old producer coming back for their 14th album or something. It’s been a while since I read the interview. I know he took a lot of shit for it, but it seems it was on purpose. 

I had my tongue firmly planted in cheek there. I did not actually think Bono does not know how to count to four in Spanish.