The U2 song for which Bono thanks God every day

Do not believe that it is an exaggeration when someone says that this song has helped him go on or even saved his life. There are songs that listened to in particular moments assume meanings that go beyond rationality, songs that support us in dark moments.

The artists also have songs that help them not to lose the compass in difficult times, for Bono It is a song written by himself: “City of Blinding Lights”included in the album of U2 of 2004 “How to Distantle An Atomic Bomb” (Read the review here).

In the book ‘U2 by U2’ Bono This is how the song explains: “The first verse lies in London and the refrain in New York. The thing I had in mind was my first trip to London with Ali (his wife, ed), when we were teenagers, on the ferry and on the train, walking towards Piccadilly Circus and up for Wardour Street, simply discovering what a big city could offer you and what could he take away from you. Madison Square Garden during the elevation tour, where the lights turned on and 18,000 New Yorkers were in tears, jumped up and down, and I screamed them, ‘oh, you are really beautiful tonight “.

Bono He said that while the band played in New York only a few days after the attack of 11 September, he remembers having seen the crowd dancing and having remained amazed by the resilience of human beings, shouting that compliment and later inserting it in the song. “This is what this song speaks, remembering those times. It is a question of regaining a sense of wonder, of being in a city and of reminding yourself that you don’t have to lose your soul to earn the world. I thank God every day for the infinite quantities of grace and for having covered the cracks in which I would have fallen”.