Monday U2: Heartland

Being a total U2 fanatic (or maybe just fan sans the lunacy), and partially to cover my ass during days of low blogging content, I’m now starting a new weekly feature in addition to my Friday Canine: Monday U2. Start the week out with some good melody-harmony-rhythm trifecta we call … music.

First up (and yeah, it’s not Monday yet … poo!), is one of their best songs, and a tragically under-appreciated one at that: the spiritual and amazing ‘Heartland’ from Rattle and Hum.

See the sun rise over her skin
Don't change it
See the sun rise over her skin
Dawn changes everything
Everything
And the delta sun
Burns bright and violet
Mississippi and the cotton wool heat
Sixty-six a highway speaks
Of deserts dry
Of cool green valleys
Gold and silver veins
Of the shining cities

In this heartland
In this heartland soil
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland, heartland

See the sun rise over her skin
She feels like water in my hand
Freeway like a river cuts through this land
Into the side of love
Like a burning spear
And the poison rain
Brings a flood of fear Through the ghost-ranch hills
Death valley waters
In the towers of steel
Belief goes on and on

In this heartland
In this heartland soil
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland, heartland
Heartland
Heaven's day here in the heartland