Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Get On Your Boots

U2's new album, No Line on the Horizon came out this week. The first single on the album is "Get on Your Boots." Here are the lyrics:

The future needs a big kiss
Winds blows with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it too?

Night is falling everywhere
Rockets at the fun fair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But he won’t scare you

Hey, sexy boots
Get on your boots, yeah

You free me from the dark dream
Candy floss ice cream
All our kids are screaming
But the ghosts aren’t real

Here’s where we gotta be
Love and community
Laughter is eternity
If joy is real

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful you are
You don’t know, and you don’t get it, do you?
You don’t know how beautiful you are

That’s someone’s stuff they’re blowing up
We’re into growing up
Women of the future
Hold the big revelations

I got a submarine
You got gasoline
I don’t want to talk about wars between nations

Not right now

Hey sexy boots
Get on your boots, yeah
Not right now
Bossy boots

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful you are
You don’t know, and you don’t get it, do you?
You don’t know how beautiful you are

Hey sexy boots
I don’t want to talk about the wars between the nations
Sexy boots, yeah

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound, now
God, I’m going down
I don’t wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Meet me in the sound

Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey

I am pretty sure that this is an allusion to Isaiah 52:7, "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, 'Your God reigns!'"

Here's the video
U2 - "Get On Your Boots" - OFFICIAL PROMO: Video


2 comments:

Rob Dilfer said...

This reminds me of that fateful time when the Beatles simultaneously discovered drugs and politics. I was also half expecting Bono to yell "Leonid Brezhnev" near the end of the song. Well done decoding Isaiah 52 from this song, though this is the first time I've heard the shoes that bring good news referred to as "sexy boots".

Matt said...

I think that is how The Message renders Ephesians 6:15--"putting on the sexy boots of the Gospel of peace." (But I could be wrong about that.)