{"id":781,"date":"2006-07-22T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/07\/22\/running-to-stand-still-u2\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T00:51:16","slug":"running-to-stand-still-u2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/07\/22\/running-to-stand-still-u2\/","title":{"rendered":"Running to Stand Still – U2"},"content":{"rendered":"
And so she woke up
\nWoke up from where she was
\nLying still
\nSaid I gotta do something
\nAbout where we’re going<\/p>\n
Step on a steam train
\nStep out of the driving rain, maybe
\nRun from the darkness in the night
\nSinging ha, ah la la la de day
\nAh la la la de day
\nAh la la de day<\/p>\n
Sweet the sin
\nBitter taste in my mouth
\nI see seven towers
\nBut I only see one way out<\/p>\n
You got to cry without weeping
\nTalk without speaking
\nScream without raising your voice<\/p>\n
You know I took the poison
\nFrom the poison stream
\nThen I floated out of here
\nSinging…ha la la la de day
\nHa la la la de day
\nHa la la de day<\/p>\n
She runs through the streets
\nWith her eyes painted red
\nUnder black belly of cloud in the rain
\nIn through a doorway she brings me
\nWhite gold and pearls stolen from the sea
\nShe is raging
\nShe is raging
\nAnd the storm blows up in her eyes
\nShe will…<\/p>\n
Suffer the needle chill
\nShe’s running to stand…<\/p>\n
Still.<\/p>\n
This song is about drug addiction and the towers are the Ballymum towers in Dublin. I have been there. They are a very poor place, though someone said they are now demolished? I find that hard to believe. There is nothing wrong with the apartment buildings themselves (except the lack of elevators) but the drug dealing that goes (went?) on there was rampant, the poverty was rampant, the danger to the children playing around them was apparent. Apparently there is\/was a high suicide rate there. When I first heard this song I felt a great deal of sadness. I still do. I always feel hurt and pained for those who suffer from drug addiction and see no release. I think U2 understood this when they wrote this song, too.<\/p>\n
Guess they did come down: www.brl.ie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And so she woke up Woke up from where she was Lying still Said I gotta do something About where … Continue reading Running to Stand Still – U2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n