lol...i didn't hear Let it Be...when i listened to it for the 2nd time, i thought it sounded familiar, and then i immediately thought of "Can't Help Falling in Love".
I've gotta say that this song really moves me. i was thinking the other day about how, when NLOTH was first being promoted, i read in several different sources (including the book with the disc, i believe) that Bono had written mostly from the 3rd person for this album, creating a series of "characters", because he felt that he had exhausted himself as a source. Listening to this song...it's hard to put into words, for me...it sounds, in spots, intently personal. i wonder if the parts of the song about "words would find me...rhymes began in me, summer sang in me, summer sings in me no more"...i wonder if Bono was having a crisis, writers block, if you will...it makes me think of someone saying to themselves "man, this used to be so easy...why is it so hard now?". Some of the other phrases during the verses, especially the bit that's been excised from this version about being borne a child at a young age and learning that, instead of mellowing you out, it only reinforces your fierce determination to right the wrongs that you perceive in the world...that so sounds like Bono himself, as opposed to one of these characters. I like the characters just fine, but i remember someone (read: Bono) saying once that soul music was when the singer decided to reveal rather than conceal...i suspect that that is why this song moves me so deeply. this song is really glorious. i know i've already read a bunch of negative reviews of it so im sure that no one else will agree with me, but i love it. i know that parts of it are specifically calculated to make the listener feel a certain way, but...so what? the song works, as a complete, unmitigated success, for me.
