Birdwell (small hint... permanent links?)

Birdwell (small hint... permanent links?) writes: I would be asking Bono what happened to the poet i knew from Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby...even Boy has more concrete meaningful lyrics than ATYCLB does. Does literary and obscure and ambiguous naturally mean more meaningful? What's more meaningful than the truth? What's more meaningful than life and how we live it? If the words are more see through, does it make the song more shallow? I think I prefer to hear 'I'm still enchanted by the light you brought to me' than to have to ponder about 'sliding down the surface of things' or that horrible 'wild horses' song. I don't want to be agist, but I really do think ATYCLB has probably more to offer to the over 30s. Mortality probably isn't something the young wish to address. You see this in lyricists... they tend to go from romantic drivel in their 20s (and I mean that in the best sense) towards painful simplicity past 30. Check Nick Cave, check Gav. See, they're all trying to be Bob Dylan. It works for some, and though I must admit I prefer Gavin's impossible lyricism on say, Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves, to any move to simplicity that I believe he is making or aspires to make, I do appreciate the change and desire to get down to the essence of things.