Chris, all these poeple are into the Jewish/Christian myth. It is a long tradition of "rappers" all the way back to Songs of Solomon in the Old Testament. Prince Charles, though future leader of the Church of England, was considering the merrits of returning to the fold of the Catholic Church. Bono,...

It seems to me that there are influences of the poem "Dark Night of the Soul" by San Juan de la Cruiz on Leonards version of "Undertow". That mystical undercurrent of moving out through the melancholy of ones own soul through the dark night and into some form of union with the infinite. "On a dark n...