4:45
single, 1989
Written by Patti Smith and Ivan Král, 1979
I didn't know until I wrote this up that this was a Patti Smith song. The Edge's driving guitar riff on this track is a great complement to Bono's hissing, murmuring, crooning vocals. The lyrics are impressionistic, depicting a state of confusion, falling, wholly subsumed in some mysterious woman who has the singer in thrall. The homophone at the end of the chorus — "I'm dancing barefoot / Heading for a spin / Some strange music drives me on / Makes me come up like some heroine" leaves the interpretation open that the narrator may be talking about a very real addiction to a drug.
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