Some Journey

U2

Those of you who know me know I have been a U2 fan for a long time. A while back a friend who was working on a paper about U2 for a college class interviewed me about why I like U2. The best summary I could give him was that apart from really liking the sound of their music, their lyrics so often express the thoughts of my heart. The fact that U2 is not pigeon holed into a particular genre, being Christians who are Pop artists, I have always felt that their lyrics have met me where I'm at better than artists who have conformed to a strictly pop or "Christian Music" genre. They ask the questions my heart is asking, they confront the emotions I am experiencing. I find that much of "Christian" music only expresses a small, often shallow, part of my heart. And much of pop, while expressing my heart, tends to exclude the context of my Christian worldview. I find in U2 the marriage of the two.

Scott recently passed on to me a copy of a book called Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 and I very much enjoyed it. Due to this, I have had so many U2 lyrics running through my head lately, that I think I will start posting U2 lyrics on the blog from time to time. I'll probably post some quotations from the book, too. Or I might forget about it entirely. But at least if random lyrics start popping up here, you'll know why. :)