 The Joshua Tree (1987) [ larger cover art ] |
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Yeah
Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky
The rivers run but soon run dry
We need new dreams tonight
Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose
Dressed all in ribbons and bows
Like a siren she calls to me
Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country, yeah
Set me alight, we'll punch a hole right through the night
Every day the dreamers die to see what's on the other side
She is liberty, and she comes to rescue me
Hope, faith, her vanity
The greatest gift is gold
Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country, yeah
Naked flame, she stands with naked flame
I stand with sons of Cain
Burned by the fire of love
Burned by the fire of love
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: May 07, 2013 - 13:04 big stud Romeo Tuma wrote: The Joshua tree is a plant in the southwestern United States, with sword-shaped leaves and greenish-white flowers grouped in large panicles... a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century named the plant the Joshua tree, after Joshua of the Old Testament— the forks of the tree reminded them of Joshua's hand raised as he prayed, and also the shape of the leaves reminded them of Joshua's spear... the name of U2's album, The Joshua Tree, is complicated... first, the entire album has a religious theme... second, the title is a tribute to the global power of the United States... third, the album also shows U2's fascination with American culture, politics, and forms of music... Everybody in my church loves this song... |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: May 07, 2013 - 12:58 3times in 24 hours? U2 is Bills new favorite?! |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 09:57 Toke wrote: I have just read that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28.So a replacemt will be required... any suggestions follks ??? Sure, how about this guy? He'd get my vote before St Boneface  |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Mar 26, 2013 - 08:23 I like this  neuticle wrote:taped this off of my folks' LP, listening to it in my Walkman in the back of the van, driving down 395 back to LA, glorious... |
| sbegf (Manchester, Maryland) | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 08:21 ckcotton wrote: I have the opening guitar riff s a ring tone for one of my best buddies.... Thought he was callin. Did you say hello to no one in particular? |
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 08:15 I have the opening guitar riff s a ring tone for one of my best buddies.... Thought he was callin. |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 15:09 Toke wrote: I have just read that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28.So a replacemt will be required... any suggestions follks ???  |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 15:05 Toke wrote: I have just read that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28.So a replacemt will be required... any suggestions follks ??? A wild guess.... some Argy called Francis? |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Feb 22, 2013 - 21:34 incredible... love it... |
| SirLars (London, ON) | Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 06:25 while this is not my favourite U2 song.... I can guarantee I'd take this over opera... |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 06:24 I have just read that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28.So a replacemt will be required... any suggestions follks ??? |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 22:04 Desert works here... rivers run dry at a desert... the elemental imagery works... this song rocks... it is from one of the best albums in infinity... |
| iTuner | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 21:59 AndyJ wrote: U2 = PSD... Then Neil Young = PSD
First time ever two PSDs back-to-back... I am shocked at my actions... My brain shrivels at the combination of U2 and Neil Young.... without pause... I have operas on CD... I am not afraid to play them... Otherwise, carry on in the RadioParadise.com fashion we all love and enjoy... I know where the Rossini is stored... I can lay hands on Massenet right away... and I know the secret hiding place of -both- copies of Rusalka by Dvorak... And I will play them -all- before I will sit thru 5 minutes of politically correct valium... Wanker |
| tdturner (Vancouver) | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 21:58 Still top o' the pops! |
| Sasha2001 (The business end of Bloomberg's education machine.) | Posted: Dec 22, 2012 - 05:45 My hand down, favorite U2 song. But ive never seen them play it live. I dont know what i'do if they ripped into this number and I was at the show. Probably get naked and just lose it. |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 12:59 AndyJ wrote: U2 = PSD... Then Neil Young = PSD First time ever two PSDs back-to-back... I am shocked at my actions... My brain shrivels at the combination of U2 and Neil Young.... without pause... I have operas on CD... I am not afraid to play them... Otherwise, carry on in the RadioParadise.com fashion we all love and enjoy... I know where the Rossini is stored... I can lay hands on Massenet right away... and I know the secret hiding place of -both- copies of Rusalka by Dvorak... And I will play them -all- before I will sit thru 5 minutes of politically correct valium... Let the record show, your honor, that the views of this obviously misguided soul do not reflect the views of all Oregonians. |
| TuneAgeWhereWoof | Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 12:55 It's obviously a God Like song.. and sorry but just too over-played for my taste.... |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 20:38 i love the 'yea ah' he starts off with and riffs all thru the song |
| BCarn (British Columbia) | Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 16:51 Gee AndyJ, why don't you enlighten the rest of us unworthies and submit 48 hours of music that you think we should be listening to. Pretentious ass. Judging by the rest of the comments, you are quite alone. Very alone. |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 00:25 AndyJ wrote: U2 = PSD... Then Neil Young = PSD First time ever two PSDs back-to-back... I am shocked at my actions... My brain shrivels at the combination of U2 and Neil Young.... without pause... I have operas on CD... I am not afraid to play them... Otherwise, carry on in the RadioParadise.com fashion we all love and enjoy... I know where the Rossini is stored... I can lay hands on Massenet right away... and I know the secret hiding place of -both- copies of Rusalka by Dvorak... And I will play them -all- before I will sit thru 5 minutes of politically correct valium... Get over yourself, opera boy. ("Rusalka, Massenet" . . . ooooooh, we're so impressed.) |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 06:07 AndyJ wrote: U2 = PSD... Then Neil Young = PSD First time ever two PSDs back-to-back... I am shocked at my actions... My brain shrivels at the combination of U2 and Neil Young.... without pause... I have operas on CD... I am not afraid to play them... Otherwise, carry on in the RadioParadise.com fashion we all love and enjoy... I know where the Rossini is stored... I can lay hands on Massenet right away... and I know the secret hiding place of -both- copies of Rusalka by Dvorak... And I will play them -all- before I will sit thru 5 minutes of politically correct valium... lighten up, for real. should have stopped at "My brain shrivels " because apparently it has. |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Aug 12, 2012 - 12:40 U2 = PSD... Then Neil Young = PSD First time ever two PSDs back-to-back... I am shocked at my actions... My brain shrivels at the combination of U2 and Neil Young.... without pause... I have operas on CD... I am not afraid to play them... Otherwise, carry on in the RadioParadise.com fashion we all love and enjoy... I know where the Rossini is stored... I can lay hands on Massenet right away... and I know the secret hiding place of -both- copies of Rusalka by Dvorak... And I will play them -all- before I will sit thru 5 minutes of politically correct valium... |
| sloroll64 | Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 18:29 Good song for Sunday! No guilt for missing church. :-) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 18:24 sandpebble wrote: Indeed it does!!!! Yes! Hope you are having a great time right this minute... |
| stunix (Narrowboat nr Caen Locks) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 08:18 instant PSD. |
| sandpebble (near Paradise) | Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 15:46 romeotuma wrote: THIS SONG ROCKS! Indeed it does!!!! |
| ziakut (Right Here) | Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 15:46 For me, the one song I increase the volume for of U2's output. Great tune. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 11:14 sublime... love it... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 10:12 westslope wrote: It does! Indeed, it does!!!!
So I never had any desire to visit Nevada other than to go hiking in the mountains and desert. But romeo, now I want a ticket to your hotel room. :-) You are welcome anytime! Everybody in my hotel room really loves this song... |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 10:10 romeotuma wrote: THIS SONG ROCKS! It does! Indeed, it does!!!!
So I never had any desire to visit Nevada other than to go hiking in the mountains and desert. But romeo, now I want a ticket to your hotel room. :-) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 26, 2012 - 19:02 THIS SONG ROCKS! |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: May 15, 2012 - 16:27 taped this off of my folks' LP, listening to it in my Walkman in the back of the van, driving down 395 back to LA, glorious... |
| BijouBijou | Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 23:03 One of the best transitions I've ever heard... from Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn, to this... Brilliant. Just brilliant. |
| iTuner | Posted: Apr 07, 2012 - 21:28 While U2's overall allure has faded I still remember buying this CD when it came out my freshman year in college and this song still plays strong. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 24, 2012 - 08:02 brilliant song from a truly great album... |
| dwlangham (Nowhere to be found) | Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 07:24 To be there, at least once in life: Naked flame She stands with a naked flame I stand with the sons of Cain Burned by the fire of love Burned by the fire of love |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 09:56 Poacher wrote: Yep - the Irish marching dwarf is rather good if one can turn off his bombastic attitude. While watching him playing Glastonbury this year I remarked to Mrs Poacher that if he had some Humility about him they would have been much bigger. . . Yea I think they are quite big enough, thank you. So big they lost me long ago. |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Feb 21, 2012 - 15:34 Playing this directly following Porcupine Tree's "Trains" clearly illustrates how pedestrian this music is. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 12:34 romeotuma wrote: The Joshua tree is a plant in the southwestern United States, with sword-shaped leaves and greenish-white flowers grouped in large panicles... a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century named the plant the Joshua tree, after Joshua of the Old Testament— the forks of the tree reminded them of Joshua's hand raised as he prayed, and also the shape of the leaves reminded them of Joshua's spear... the name of U2's album, The Joshua Tree, is complicated... first, the entire album has a religious theme... second, the title is a tribute to the global power of the United States... third, the album also shows U2's fascination with American culture, politics, and forms of music... bump... this song is marvelous... |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jan 29, 2012 - 17:40 BKardon wrote: Pretty solid tune. Will age like a fine wine, I'm sure. This is quite a good tune - from the superior, pre-sunglasses era. |
| Imkirok (The Arctic Hinter Land) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 13:16 coloradojohn wrote: I love how the tempo shifts constantly, how the melody soars and runs in and out, and all the while the peerless guitar punches staccato nails through the sky and the bass goes all Wild West as the whole magic thing goes galloping across the dusty plains, transcending the sonic plane... Magikal1act wrote: THIS is by FAR the GREATEST description of ANY song I have ever read. Thank you for making me smile and laugh out loud with joy at the poetry and the music all at once. Rockin' my friend, you should be a music writer. Pure poetry...yesssssss.... Oh, I think coloradojohn's pales in comparison to Romeotuma's. :) |
| Magikal1act (San Francisco Bay Area) | Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 17:24 coloradojohn wrote: I love how the tempo shifts constantly, how the melody soars and runs in and out, and all the while the peerless guitar punches staccato nails through the sky and the bass goes all Wild West as the whole magic thing goes galloping across the dusty plains, transcending the sonic plane... THIS is by FAR the GREATEST description of ANY song I have ever read. Thank you for making me smile and laugh out loud with joy at the poetry and the music all at once. Rockin' my friend, you should be a music writer. Pure poetry...yesssssss.... |
| coloradojohn (Tokyo till Jan. 29, then it's back to Rocky Mtn Way!) | Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 17:49 I love how the tempo shifts constantly, how the melody soars and runs in and out, and all the while the peerless guitar punches staccato nails through the sky and the bass goes all Wild West as the whole magic thing goes galloping across the dusty plains, transcending the sonic plane... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 17:43 We be dancing... love it... |
| Alexandra (PNW) | Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 17:42 *turns up to 11* |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 12, 2011 - 19:00 Love this song... love this whole album... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 08, 2011 - 22:00 What a great classic song, from a magnificent album... love it... |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 14:49 randyblew wrote: My favorite song, my favorite album, my favorite band. Lyrically unmatchable. Soaring guitar, yearning voices. If this is whining, would that we were all so whiny. Yeah Desert sky Desert rose Sleep comes like a drug Set me alight She is liberty Sleep comes like a drug Naked flame roger that... |
| randyblew (Raleigh, NC) | Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 10:37 My favorite song, my favorite album, my favorite band. Lyrically unmatchable. Soaring guitar, yearning voices. If this is whining, would that we were all so whiny. Yeah Desert sky Desert rose Sleep comes like a drug Set me alight She is liberty Sleep comes like a drug Naked flame |
| drsteevo (Location Location) | Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 06:10 clymbon wrote: I guess I just don't like vocalists who whine instead of singing... Why are you posting this comment under a U2 song? Bono has a great voice, not sure why you are hearing a "whiner." Must be something wrong with your ears. |