wow...this is weird....I wonder what he's thinking and singing...

it looks a bit like my baby's crying, what with his eyes screwed up.

oh my! he must be singing sometimes... he look like he's about to cry.... so what he's thinking about.. must be his dad..

More likeBono: "Atssschiuuuu!"Susanne: "Bless you!" Gives Bono a handkerchief.Bono: "Od, dank yyyy, I dink I god gold"

!lol!

no offense susanne... but I didn't really think your joke was well placed.... I don't know.. this picture makes me feel strange.. as if we're looking at something we aren't supposed to see... he looks so vulnerable, so broken.. it just doesn't feel right for me..

most likely it is his dad he is think of. He always seems to have the shades off when he sings that. I noticed that even The Edge seems sad when they are playing that song.

well its strange, but alot of videos I saw them performing sometimes, he didnt take them off... NBC, MTV Jammed, san diego 1.... I can't remember wich other... oh yeah top of the pops too... and prolly more..

Hmmm, I thought too that this pic could be taken during the SYCMIOYO... And yeees, he does look as if he is going through something hard... And me mean girl just go around joking when I shouldn't. Oh dear.

don't feel bad about it... it's just my lame feelings.. I don't know... this confuses me... same with seeing the pics of Bono and the others carrying the coiffin of his late dad... I feel that those pics don't belong here... that they're personal.. not meant for us...

oh my..poor baby=(he looks really heartbroken here=( I've never seen anyone in the band even smile duringthis song..we can see that bono is still fighting with this..I feel so sorry for him,so really realy sorry..

sorry for my bad typing..

it's not about the typing, it's about the message! and yours was very moving... If you look at this pic long enough, I get a sad feeling of it... you can feel his pain..

You know back in the day I thought the press was too intrusive when he was burying his papa...the photos were plastered everywhere on the internet the news etc. not just here....it was sad and he was going through so much last tour...talk about feeling for him I was so stressed out last tour watching him because he was pushing everything to the limit....I don't see how he made it through....He's much more relaxed even with his hectic schedule this tour than last time and it shows...he looks better and sounds better in my opinion(although he sounded damn good last time)...and hey girls the minute he doesn't make you feel his songs or worse yet HE doesn't feel something he needs to cash it in a say adios!....grrr.....look on the other side he may have needed to suppress a sneeze and was buckling in ...you just never know whatz going on from a photo like this...so don't be sad ..*hugs b-babes* grrr

Every time I hear him sing that song, you can hear the sadness,yet it is so passionate. I kind of can relate to his problems with his dad,since I have the same with my mom. Some of the stories he tells are so similar to mine. It's like things were never settled or understood between them. They may have been on speaking terms,yet his dad never showed him how he understood him. I don't know of course,but that is how I feel everytime he sings that song,it is like a prayer to his dad, in hopes that he can hear him everytime he sings it. Very powerful song, I think the one time he sang it under the Brooklyn Bridge, it made me get a bit misty.

I find it to be more of a plea for himself..... :)

to his dad.... ;)

this doesn't look like a sneeze to me... but oct, the Brooklin Bridge one confused me... that was the first time I saw him performing the song WITH his shades on.... and I still wonder why...

No that was ment to be facetious about the sneeze....but we really don't know what he's singing here do we? He had his glasses off at my shows for quite a few songs not just the one...oh you know where he talks about his eyes being sensitive and swelling in this interview he had that happening last tour...but I don't remember him mentioning it the pop tour....I still have to finish the article...me bad.... Hey Oct how about him really liking Tom Jones???? confess i knew it already.... hehehehe.....grrr also now that he's given such an in depth saga how does my story that I wrote for Zookeeper resignate with you now????? I used some parallels that he talks about in Rolling Stones...the piano... the imagination... the imagery of illusion... the quick misconceptions.... *waves* gotta go i'm late for a meeting ...be good girls...grrr

woah what article???? and I reall think this is sometimes... there's no other song where he's so emotional... and the vertigo tour shows I saw, he only took them off during sometimes, and the san diego one I saw he did only took them off for a few secs...

maybe taking off his shades during sometimes it is like a sign of respect for his father, this is not the show anymore,it is a very intimate moment for him and his father....from what I read in B on B book he had a sort of hate-love relation with him..I'm sure Bob loved his children but he was too "angry" to show them...sometimes pain for losing someone you deeply love makes you apparently tough...

Yes, I really get where he is coming from with his relationship with his dad. Like I said, I have a very simmilar one with my mom.

is your mother still alive oct? if so, then maybe you can change that before its too late! and Bono also recalled it was something with irish males being so stubborn and too proud to talk... well my father is also terribly stubborn.. and angry a lot... I guess it's just a male thing or so..

Yes she is alive and she lives about 200 hundred miles away. I have tried forever to fix things. I respect her and love her but she is so negative and not fun to be around that I can't take it anymore. She can be real mean. There are three of us kids and only my sister talks to her and still has a lot of troubles dealing with her. I would be there for her if she really needed it,but too many bad things have been said to keep up a good healthy relationship. Sad,and you don't even know how hard I tried.

I'm sorry for you Oct..

that sounds really badd! But at least she's here... who knows for how long? no matter how negative she is, enjoy the moments with her now she is alive... otherwise you'd badly regret it, as bono does now..

Please, please try to make the relationship work, my dad just had a stroke day before yesterday - no idea what will happen, but I am so thankful that he knows I love him.

Oct, I never got to really know my father, I lived with him in the same house sure, but then when I was 15 he got a heart attack and died... And I always feel bad afterwards that I never tried to get closer to him.. That's why I started to feel so bad while I started to think what Bono is thinking in this pic, while I was just joking.

I'm sorry to hear that susanne and lalatoots... well I never got to know my grandfathers very well, one died when I was very young, the other when I was uh 9 or so.. I can't remember them,... but that's different than not having a good relationship with your parents... that's just not supposed to be bad!

She just doesn't want to be around ME. I saw her at my sister's little boys birthday a year ago and she said not one word to me. I let my daughter go with my sister to visit her this past summer. Now my daughter gets the stories I tell her. She and my dad had a very bitter divorce. She never got over it and she is not happy that I have contact with my dad. I was always on the level with her when i did talk to my dad and she just wasn't willing to deal with it. My dad however has tried to have a relationship with my kids and me. My mom doesn't even send birthday cards to my kids!! So it is tough to deal with and I know when she finally goes it will be terribly sad, but it has been years of on and off again. I think she knows I love her, I know she loves me,but for some reason, we can't be in a room together.

that sounds really bad.. I wish I could say something that would actually help... but I cant...

Ya, there isn't much to say is there. I just read what Lala wrote,and I just dont't know what to think if she really gets sick.

It is so hard Oct, you always know your parents are going to pass one day, but you just never expect it to be now. It is suppossed to be after my kids are grown with their kids. Any ways, I am not going to keep going on about this, but its what is going on right now and I just needed to vent:( It just seems once you finally make peace with your parents, this happens.

wow...I read this all...word for word...I feel so close to you...well my father died when I was 15...I really loved him and I had a great relationship with him...it was not the same with my mom coz she was always upset and tough to me,don't know why...things got worst when dad died because she really loved him,he was her reason to live.So she turned her anger to me,she did criticize everything I was doing..even if good...oh well I could save the world,be a famous rockstar or whatever but she would be upset as well..I didn't understand her and I grew up by myself she was too angry and busy with her pain to take care of me...then one day she got sick (I was 22) and she died for a cancer in 3 months...now I am angry with her coz she left me too early to face this fuc...g world and we did waste so much time to make war to each other....not a long time ago a friend of her told me that she was so proud of me and she considered me as the best daughter in the world...she never told me,never!...why??..I will never understand that...what can I say? Oct it's difficult,I didn't get on well with my mom,but when she died I felt like a tsunami run over me and I still miss her...I wish you to find your mom again...

oh my..I've read through all these things,and I realize how lucky I am!my family often argue,but just about these little things that always end up as a laugh..I feel so terrebly sorry for all of you that have,or have had a bad realationship with your parents=(=(=(=(=(=(=(

quite impressive that one single picture can make us all into these emotional stories... sigh, sometimes I wish I wasn't this young... cuz I really can't talk with you gals about this.....

Well I'm of an *coughs* age Ingrid and I can't talk either ....ummm maybe too close to our lives need to escape into *happyhappyU2land at Matts house*....grrr

uhhh matts house???? you mean, he's THAT obsessed that he has a house full of u2???? okaaaay I wanna go there, with you^^ it's all we can do!

Yes I agree Soulcat, this got to heavy, I guess we all have some kinda hurt with someone. My door is always open for my mom though, its her that does not want to enter. I swore I would break the cycle of my parents, and so far I have. I have a good relasionship with both of my girls. I try to remember all the great times I did spend with my mom though and she taught me a lot of things. That is what I hang on to now. She may someday want to see me who knows. But this is the happy house of U2 so lets not dwell on sad things so much.