Love Is Blindness Lyrics
Love is blindness, I don't wanna see
Won't you wrap the night around me?
Oh, my heart
Love is blindness
[Verse 1]
In a parked car in a crowded street
You see your love made complete
Thread is ripping, the knot is slipping
Love is blindness
[Verse 2]
Love is clockworks and cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle, blow out the candle
Love is blindness
[Chorus]
Love is blindness, I don't wanna see
Won't you wrap the night around me?
Oh, my love
Blindness
[Bridge]
A little death without mourning
No call and no warning
Baby, a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense
Love is drowning in a deep well
All the secrets and no one to tell
Take the money, honey
Blindness
[Chorus]
Love is blindness, I don't wanna see
Won't you wrap the night around me?
Oh, my love
Blindness
About
Love is Blindness is the final song on U2’s Achtung Baby.
Viewpoints abound, but a commonly held belief is that the song drives home the point that capital-L LOVE for anything–be it a partner, a country, or a god–can deprive us of all good sense and vision. It may even cause us to betray or destroy the object of our love.
There’s strong evidence to support that Bono is telling of destructive love through the eyes of a terrorist, who loves his cause to the point of killing the innocent to supposedly further it. Domestic terrorism was something U2 had addressed previously in songs like Sunday Bloody Sunday, which pertained specifically to the violence in Northern Ireland that U2 grew up watching on the news (they’re from Dublin).
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