'Moment of Surrender' tells the tale of a lost soul, borrowing an 'Alcoholics Anonymous' term.

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1 The first item here are the lyrics to, 
'Moment of Surrender' by U2

2 The first track on my iPhone Player with this blog -
is that song.

If you can read (below) as it is delivered -
wondrous experience.

3 Below the lyrics there is a quote from an interview with Bono. 

It was sent to me by Martin a friend with Angel wings.

It says a lot to me.
Songs speak to me .........

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The moment of surrender::

I tied myself with wire

To let the horses roam free

Playing with the fire

Until the fire played with me

The stone was semi-precious

We were barely conscious

Two souls too smart to be

In the realm of certainty

Even on our wedding day

We set ourselves on fire

Oh God, do not deny her

It’s not if I believe in love

If love believes in me

Oh, believe in me

At the moment of surrender

I folded to my knees

I did not notice the passers-by

And they did not notice me

I’ve been in every black hole

At the altar of the dark star

My body’s now a begging bowl

That’s begging to get back, begging to get back

To my heart

To the rhythm of my soul

To the rhythm of my unconsciousness

To the rhythm that yearns

To be released from control

I was punching in the numbers at the ATM machine

I could see in the reflection

A face staring back at me

At the moment of surrender

Of vision over visibility

I did not notice the passers-by

And they did not notice me

I was speeding on the subway

Through the stations of the cross

Every eye looking every other way

Counting down ’til the train would stop

At the moment of surrender

Of vision of over visibility

I did not notice the passers-by

And they did not notice me

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Moment of Surrender tells the tale of a lost soul,

borrowing an Alcoholics Anonymous term

for the moment an addict admits helplessness.

"The character in the song is a junkie, so that's where I got it,"

says Bono, who has written about heroin addiction before, most famously on 'Bad', 

from 'The Unforgettable Fire' Album.

"I've been surrounded a lot 
in my personal life by addiction -

- in the last few years, in particular,"

Bono says. 

"I know a lot of people -

- not least the bass player in the band -

- who have had to deal with their demons 
in courageous ways."

In the Nineties -

- around the time he was engaged to Naomi Campbell -

- Clayton grappled with alcoholism, and went to AA himself.

"And maybe there's a part of me that thinks,

 'Wow, I'm just an inch away,''' Bono continues. 

"There's no doubt about the fact that 
I have a wild streak and 

I'd be very capable of setting fire to myself. 

So, you know, I don't go to church for the view."

Moment includes a phrase that's close to sacred for Bono:

"vision over visibility"

Until now, he never found a home for it in a song, 

but he used it as a title for a painted self-portrait in the Eighties,  placed it in poems and essays, 

and even squeezed it into a live version of Rockin' in the Free World.

"It's an idea that I've held on to quite tightly over the years," he says.

"It's like Martin Luther King's speech -

- the moment when you see the place,

but you can't see yet how to get there."

The slogan stands for an insistence on looking past 

what you can see in favour of what could be.

For Bono, the world as it is will never be enough. 

"I'm not the tattooing kind, 

but if I had a tattoo, that would be it," he says.

"Elvis had 'taking care of business'.

I've got 'vision over visibility’."

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