FEZ- Being Born
A Passengers type experimental type thang with distortions, musical shifts and loops that even loop their own mantra from Get On Your Boots, just two song earlier, this is the strangest thing on the album, musically and lyrically. When I was first listening through the album I jotted thoughts down alongside the lyrics and on this one I have just a huge circled question mark! I feel like leaving it at that and then I feel bad that you Googled or searched for this page to come up and like the dog in Old Mother Hubbard you would get nothing from an empty cupboard!
The location is Fez for sure, geographically described. The birth? It could be the birth of the album or it could be some kind of spiritual birth, the description seems perfectly physical! Bono is into his rebirth and indeed we will come back to that when we get to the penultimate track Breathe. The heart setting sail as the last line and does give the sense of human potential to create and imagine and create and discover and ultimately contribute. That could happen at the birth of a baby, an album or in a spiritual rebirth. And Fez seems an exotic and intoxicating place to dream all things new.
Now are you sorry I didn’t just say, “The cupboard is bare!”
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