I Still Haven 'T Found What I M Looking For'
Spirituality is a sense of connection to something superior that ourselves, and normally involves a search for meaning in life. Though all faiths emphasise spirituality as being a significant part of faith. Many people confuse religion and spirituality as being the same thing. Religion is a set of beliefs and rituals that claim to get an individual in a connection with God, and spirituality is a focus on spiritual things and the spiritual world instead of physical/earthly things. U2 one of the biggest bands in the world is also one of the most spiritual. U2 constantly puts their Christian belief and Biblical subjects at the centre of their music throughout their time as a band, but have never represented themselves as a Christian band. Their
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It is the second song from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the album's second single in May 1987. The song was a success and became the band's second successive number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" displays influences from gospel music and its lyrics define the spiritual desire to be with god. The song describes the journey that humans go on in our mission to find God.
U2 has written a variety of spiritual songs, ‘I still haven’t found what I’m looking for’ makes distinct references to Jesus, ‘I believe in the kingdom… you broke the bonds and you loosed the chains’ which is …show more content…
‘Yahweh’ (which takes its title from the Hebrew word for God), is the content and intimate dialogue with the Lord, where Bono rests clear his seeming flaws – ‘Take this mouth/so quick to criticise/take this mouth/give it a kiss’, whilst never stopping to subject the purpose of devotion to hard questioning through the catchphrase of ‘Yahweh/Yahweh/still I'm waiting for the dawn.’ The song ‘40’ was released on the album version of "Two Hearts Beat as One", since its live debut on February 26, 1983, in Dundee, "40" has been a staple of U2's live concerts, having been performed almost 400 times. The lyrics are a alteration of the Bible's Psalm 40, "I waited patiently on the Lord/He inclined and heard my cry/He lifted me up out of the pits/and out of the miry
It is the second song from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the album's second single in May 1987. The song was a success and became the band's second successive number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" displays influences from gospel music and its lyrics define the spiritual desire to be with god. The song describes the journey that humans go on in our mission to find God.
U2 has written a variety of spiritual songs, ‘I still haven’t found what I’m looking for’ makes distinct references to Jesus, ‘I believe in the kingdom… you broke the bonds and you loosed the chains’ which is …show more content…
‘Yahweh’ (which takes its title from the Hebrew word for God), is the content and intimate dialogue with the Lord, where Bono rests clear his seeming flaws – ‘Take this mouth/so quick to criticise/take this mouth/give it a kiss’, whilst never stopping to subject the purpose of devotion to hard questioning through the catchphrase of ‘Yahweh/Yahweh/still I'm waiting for the dawn.’ The song ‘40’ was released on the album version of "Two Hearts Beat as One", since its live debut on February 26, 1983, in Dundee, "40" has been a staple of U2's live concerts, having been performed almost 400 times. The lyrics are a alteration of the Bible's Psalm 40, "I waited patiently on the Lord/He inclined and heard my cry/He lifted me up out of the pits/and out of the miry