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Bono on Stories Told Through Color

I feel badly in need of inspiration. The color is going out of my life. Autumn is retreating as the cold North Wind marches on.

Bono

U2 18 Vertigo/05 Live from Milan

Bono:

“So, we’re making a DVD here…tonight.
Thank you for being a part of the film…the little movie we’re making of tonight.

Grazie mille.

You kinda invented the movies, though, didn’t you?

Yeah.

They’re on the stained glass windows. They were the first movies.
Stories told through…color…projected by sunlight.
The Duomo just up the road, was like the first cinema in Italy.
Duh…I don’t know what I’m talking about here but…uh…excusez moi.
Anyway, uh…

I can talk if I want to!”


I Still Haven’t Found What I’m looking For

I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run, through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you

I have run, I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
Sing for us…

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertip
Burning like a fire
I was burning inside her

I have spoke with tongue of angels
I have held the hand of the devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
Take us to the Duomo

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
And yes I’m still running

You broke the bonds and you loosed the chains
Carried the cross, took my shame
Took the blame
You know I believe it

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
I still…

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