Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. Log in. Lyrics Artists add. Bad U2 95 Comments 1 Tags. Bad song meanings. Add Your Thoughts 95 Comments. A song about Dublin city. And a song about a drug called heroin that's tearing our city in two Rich people stuff dollars in the back of their pocket while poor men lie in gutters with needles stuck in their arms.
Screw them, I say. This is a song about a friend of mine who was given on his 21st birthday enough heroin into his bloodstream to kill him. This is a song called Bad. No Replies Log in to reply. There was an error. General Comment Some of these lyrics mean a lot to me. When at school I was very shy and I think I had like a split personality.
When with friends I would be pretty loud but if even one other person was there that i did not like I would stay mostly always quiet.
The line "If you should ask then maybe they'd Tell you what I would say " rings a bell. I remember some people asking how I had done in an exam, but they did not ask me, they asked my friend standing next to me. Like most people I had good times and bad times in my life. This song really gave me strength to cope with the bad times. And that's what music is all about, touching people.
Thanks again for this great song. Evey band has that one song that you recognize from the first note and eveytime you hear it, its like you are hearing it for the firs time. This is is the song that is timeless and still has as much meaning today for people as it did back in the early years. If there ever was a signature song for any band this is the one for U2.
Simple the BEST!!! This is the song that got me hooked on U2. The live performance during Band Aid was phenomenal. When the song is on I always try to sing-a-long. With emphasis on trying :- Put a recording device next to me and you will hear the strangest sounds and englishlike words. The base line, The calmness of the drums that slowly comes more and more into play, the voice of Bono crying out loud and last but not least the Guitar rif.
Best U2 song ever. It's simply a powerful song with a message that always seems to change based on my mood and struggles. It doesn't have to be drug addiction to overcome, to me it is any problem that prevents your ability to grow and move forward. Sometimes there is no solution to the problem because its simply who you are and how you are wired. If I could I would Even if you don't understand the lyrics, the song is magic.
The song gives me an energy boost every day. Bad was a song long forgotten until I entered therapy for addiction in HTDAB had just been released and Vertigo caught my attention as it described the way I felt in the first months of recovery - the jungle was my head I remember sitting in my car and weeping when it's truth got a hold of me.
I knew I would have surrender to a lot of painful realities and in therapy I felt like I was being torn in two. It became a mantra for me as I had to learn to "let it go" all the twisted thinking and feelings of shame that I had buried for decades.
It was also a song of hope for me because I clung to the hope that I would be able to break free Going through coginitive behavioral change I felt beat up - blue and black - regularly. I had bloodshot eyes from the angst that came with learning to live without my vice worrying about the day the pain goes away - Fast Cars. Both painfully and beautifully Bad captures for me the despair and the hope I encountered in struggling throught deep personal wounds that I tried to hide through vices.
BAD captures the hollow, empty feeling of living a lie - isolation, desolation, condemnation of self - but ends with hopeful, determined statement to be wide awake and not sleeping I love the angry passion in Bono's voice reaching to hit that high note when singing "I'm wide awake" and the driving high octave base line and drums It has changed me for the better.
There's no other word to describe it. Bad is a song that speaks on several levels. On the one hand, the speaker could be a strong person trying to free a weaker person from their circumstances. On the other hand, the speaker could be a person in troubling circumstances attempting to break free. For me, there are two sections I find particularly powerful. The first is "This desperation, dislocation, separation, condemnation, revelation, in temptation, isolation, desolation.
It talks about God's ability to meet us in our circumstances and reveal himself to us in the depths of whatever we are dealing with. The second section is "I'm wide awake, wide awake, I'm not sleeping. While we may be "awake," we're essentially asleep as far as reality is concerned. This section is a declaration that we are here to live in the reality of our lives, regardless of the situations we find ourselves in.
This is where I draw my strength from and this is why Bad is the song I try my best to live by. Bad takes pain, caresses it gently, pulls it out with a scream, and sends it flying away. I don't know what it is about Bad, but I feel it in my bones and it's proof positive that music, done rightly, heals like nothing else can. Hearing that song for the first time ripped something open and let it out, and for those who heeded it - nothing's the same.
Contrast it to Numb, which explores inside the bubble of denial, isolation, numbness. They separate out, come together, bits pop up and subside. Bad is heart; Numb is head, and together they are revelation.
Listening to "Bad" now, 27 years later, continues to blow me away. While everyone else was making disposable Pop, or worse, adolesent Hair Band rock, "Bad" speaks from a much, much deeper place.
Looking back at that entire decade, "Bad" is the one song that stands out as something truely unique. Bad is my favorite U2 song since '84! I really love it. And OW said the song would be called S, just like the band that sold over million, played sellers all over the world and won 19 Grammy Awards for it? Or is he just a fool, a fool? I know Bono said the song was helpful, and it could be. But Bono has always been a master at writing texts that can have two meanings.
I believe this song is praying to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane to be your farmer. Jesus has many songs and Christian themes. The first two verses show that what Jesus struggled with he knew would happen the next day. He mentioned it in wheat and prayed that this cup would leave me. He wanted to give up, let go, but at the end of the second level he realized that if he did, the flames in the air and the fire would be expelled from him.
In verse 3, he acknowledges that if he goes to the end, people will see his soul free and enter the light. But he was still struggling and telling himself that he was awake, that he was not sleeping. That is, he had to face it even when his students were asleep.
If he could ask in the middle verse, maybe they would have told him that I would say that the high priests would question him and he would not say much. Then paint was applied to the bloody eyes of the Roman soldiers. However, in the literal list of this frustration there was a terrible detail of what happened to him. Much of the beauty of U2's melodies lies in mystery Bono may have kept a particular case or example in mind when writing this song, but he wrote it so well that it could lead to many other experiences.
Malo is the national anthem to overcome the obsessive relationship with my close friend and love On Live Aid, Bono stands on the opening riff of the Ages. He said the song was from a friend of mine in Dublin and they gave him coffee on the 21st. So the song was sung with a little regret so that his friend Bono would leave him.
Bed was originally a song composed by Bono and recorded unforgettably. Only later, when Bono sang the song live, did he realize that the song was just a close friend's 21st birthday. And au w said the song would be called, the same band that sold more than million Al, ran shows that sold worldwide and won 19 Grammy Awards for it.
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