As I often do, I was surfing ‘YouTube’ the other day and saw the video clip of U2’s “Miss Sarajevo”. A powerful, almost haunting song inspired by a documentary of the same name that Bono helped produce about a beauty pageant held in war torn Yugoslavia with guns booming all around, a sort of protest song.
Bono introduces the song by saying;
I'd like to dedicate this song to those who lost their lives
In London, in the UK bombings last week... and Iraq
We want to turn our song into a prayer
And our prayer, is that we, they, we
Do not become a monster in order to defeat a monster
That's our prayer
The song moves stunningly through some powerful lyrics that include lines like;
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Good challenge Scott.