#U2 #Desire #ElevationTour #Boston2001

Yeah
Lover I'm off the streets
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar, on fire
Desire

She's the candle
Burning in my room
I'm like the needle
Needle and spoon
Over the counter
With a shotgun
Pretty soon, everybody got one
And the fever when I'm beside her
Desire
Desire

Desire
Desire

Burning
Burning

She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah, she's the promise
In the year of election
Ah, sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher
Stealing hearts at a traveling show
For the love or money, money?
Desire
Desire
Desire
Desire

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This song is about the ambition and dedication required to be a successful band. It also criticizes American preachers who swindle followers out of their money.

The song incorporates a blues style. U2 became interested in American forms of music - gospel, blues, folk - after touring there in the early and mid '80s.

The first single from the album Rattle And Hum, "Desire" was also the first song performed in their tour documentary Rattle And Hum.

The Edge (Hot Press, October 1988): "Music's become too scientific, it's lost that spunk and energy that it had in the '50s and '60s. When I listen to most modern records I hear a producer, I don't hear musicians interacting. And that quality, that missing quality is something we were trying to get back into our own music. What I like about Desire is that if there's ever been a cool #1 to have in the UK, that's it because it's totally not what people are listening to or what's in the charts at the moment. Instead it's going in exactly the opposite direction. It's a rock and roll record - in no way is it a pop song."

On the Zoo TV tour, Bono would perform this as Mirrorball Man, wearing a shiny preacher's suit that looked like a disco ball and kissing his image in a mirror. He used the character only in the US, where scandalous preachers were prevalent.

In concert, Bono changes the lyrics a bit to "And the feeling when I'm inside her" instead of "And the fever when I'm beside her." 

This won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group in 1989. It was also the 1988 Rolling Stone Readers Pick for Best Single.

"The rhythm is the sex of the music," Bono says of the song in the band's book U2 by U2. "I wanted to own up to the religiosity of rock 'n' roll concerts and the fact that you get paid for them. On one level, I'm criticizing the lunatic fringe preachers 'stealing hearts at a traveling show' but I'm also starting to realize there's a real parallel between what I am doing and what they do."⭐©U2

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