Zooropa's glorious promise of the new Man, in sever shades, as confident and cunning in Science as Poetry, Better by Design. U2 have been there and they know.
U2 is fresh off it's triumph of having resurrected Berlin, tossing off their rough treatment at the hands of America and the bitch called the Blues, that Angel of Harlem. The Rattle and Hum has given way to a Computer Screen Glow. The inheritance of Europe's Doom.
There were Nazi prophecies in the Bible and Nostradamus and Helene Blavatsky.
Side One begins with ...
Zooropa- ambient opening with piano chords, The Edge comes in with a guitar sound that bounces and skips like a digital stone across a neon pond
Horoscope to Spectrescope
Drug Addicts and Poets- Business Men and Button Pushers
Zooropa- All Strife's Quelled! Entertainment, Shopping, Food!
Zooropa- Don't Fight, Just Shop!
Zooropa- But Hitler's Personal Clairvoyant was an Eastern European Jew!
Zooropa- America, Just Stay OUT of It!
Zooropa- Now Hitler travels in UFO's through the center of the Hollow Earth. He was known to have many doubles.
Zooropa- Coming back from the far side of the moon
Zooropa- Television and Flying Saucers. We sent a Rocket into Space!
Zooropa- End of the World Gospel (Further elaborated in Closing Theme; Johnny's Cash's "The Wanderer"
Zooropa- It's that time of Day (When people don't go Outside anymore...)
Babyface- Neon brush and bass-pedal soft-core
Numb- Touring Musician retreats into Valium and Computer Game inspired Coma and then tries to mumble his way out of a Paper Bag
Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto
Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto
Lemon
Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto
Lemon (Continued)
In the future most people have tried a Lemon once or twice, the citric acid burn on the tongue a fond memory. Flora and fauna have been driven from Mother Earth and the Human Race drags it's knuckles and curses.
Stay-
Just the bang and the clatter as an angel hits the ground
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