This is the month that music lives for. Rejoice in the sound of music and live as if tomorrow will never come for today you have song and wine and of course U2, rejoice life is full of laughter and sorrow and yet tomorrow is not far off if you believe in yesterday.
At the beginning of every October, I play this track. I don’t know why, but I just do. The song is a haunting song, consisting of 26 words and two themes.
The first theme has to do with death. Obviously, it’s Bono’s reflection of a tree losing its leaves, which I think is a metaphor about losing his mother. The mother I feel he is speaking of is Mother Nature, stripping us bear of our emotional being as we take on winter. As I listen to the track, I envision a heavy, grey sky above me, almost suffocating. A lone tree, away from the forest on the horizon, stands naked before me.
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