Staring at the sun lyrics2/1/2024 Are they afraid of what they find when they look inside of themselves? Bono says these people (government/military state) is still in town or in control. "Those who can't do" are the teachers or the people who set our morals in society who create these myths to scare people out of using drugs or to be introspective and question what is accepted as truth or right. I would take the the song quite literally. His description is almost identical to the mythical articles on the california university students. They also held religious conversations with god while under the influence.This story has never been proven and actual names were never given (check out Erowid for more on this myth).īono is probably relating his own trip with the students who were sprawled out on the grass for hours. There was a story going around in the 60's that a group of california university students were so high on LSD that they were staring at the sun while laying on a grassy hill for several hours that it didn't bother them but in fact burnt part of their retina and could not see anything closely. Even if its hopeless, he'll press on, and take the pain, because its what everyone else really should be doing. He'd rather go on truly looking at our world, seeing the horrors of a west that doesnt care about the poor, seeing brutal regimes across the globe and greedy individuals who couldnt care less, and pain, and disease, and famine, and drugs, and go blind from it, than be just another person avoiding the glare. (lol).īut, be that as it may, he'd rather go blind. There are forces byond thier control there are governments, parents (which might represent being brought up to continue things as they were, rather than truly decding to change things), etc etc etc.īut, be that as it may, he'd rather go blind. It is a cry for more people to join, it is encouragement to those who already are, but it is intrinsicly hopeless because they know it will not happen. but that they have to make such an assertion points out a glaring and obvious truth: almost everyone else is not willing to stare at the sun. "I'm not the only one" is repeatedly asserted, because they are trying to show that there are people out there who really do care, who really do want to solve these problems. I think the ones who are willing to put up with the pain of staring at the sun, the ones who will scratch at the insect even if they cannot necessarily solve the problem, are the ones willing to take a real look at our world, take a real view of our problems, and (hopelessly in most cases) try to solve them. I do not think that staring at the sun means ignoring the ills of the world, in fact, i think it means the opposite. Do you want to see what the scratching bringsĪnd those that can't do often have to preach
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