It's always nice to have one's thoughts confirmed by the B man (my tweet/graphic from July)...
iNNOCENCE AND eXPERIENCE. (And apparently Bono kept Adam's glasses). "Change the World." #U2ieTour pic.twitter.com/WpF9jbK9gx
— Tim Neufeld (@timneufeld) July 3, 2015
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And then this excerpt from the band's SiriusXM interview, to be aired on Friday, August 7, in which Bono discusses the connection between Songs Of Innocence and the upcoming Songs Of Experience...
“The philosophy of the first album is probably best contained in a line from our second album October in a song called Rejoice. And the line is, ‘I can’t change the world, but I can change the world in me.’ That was the position that I think we felt when we were in our younger times,” he explained. “For Songs of Experience, it’s a different line — it’s in [the song] Lucifer’s Hands, which is an outtake that really has both innocence and experience in it – and it has the line, ‘I can change the world, but I can’t change the world in me.’
Bono continued: “So the thing is, when we were younger, we were fighting very much with the physical world and trying to make it a better place, trying to fight when we would see injustice wherever it raised its head. Whereas in the ‘90s we made a kind of a change, and we started fighting perhaps more interesting enemies, the ones that you find in your own life, in your own heart — the hypocrisy of the human heart is great material — and just finding those kinds of enemies, you know, it’s the world in you rather than the exterior world.”
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