faithasawayoflife: U2's "Let Me In The Sound" = "Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound?"

Mark Meynell, All Soul's London, has made a wonderful and I think brilliant observation connecting the repeated theme "Let me in the Sound" throughout their new album No Line On The Horizon. As most people who have been listening know, their first single, Get On Your Boots, includes a bridge with this:

Let me in the sound, now
God, I’m going down
I don’t wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound
Let me in the sound

Could refer back to the song Drowning Man on their album War, perhaps, and be a way to speak of law and gospel, dying to sin and rising in the new life found 'in the sound' of grace. Could be. . .

The next reference on the album is the beginning of Fez . . . Being Born (interesting title in connection to our line of reflection, and could be connected to Atomic Bomb's "All Because Of You" with the first line "I was born a child of Grace). Here we simply get a litany of the "Let me in the sound".

Then Breathe, the song that closes out the album. Mark writes:

This is one of my absolute winners. My first impression is that it’s a reflection on how in Christ we have the fullness of life, despite whatever the world has to offer us, even if that means there is suffering and cost. It takes courage, it takes a determination to serve sacrificially - but I’ve found grace and so i can breathe now… In other words, i can TRULY live. It is set in the real world of news reports (e.g. Chinese stocks and Avian flu). There is nothing more fundamental than breathing - nor pleasurable when you think about it: think of taking a deep and long breath on a cold crisp blue-skied winter’s morning in the countryside.

Read the rest of his post here.

The song lyric in Breathe ends:

We are people borne of sound
The songs are in our eyes
Gonna wear them like a crown
Walk out, into the sunburst street
Sing your heart out, sing my heart out
I’ve found grace inside a sound
I found grace, it’s all that I found
And I can breathe
Breathe now

People born of sound: a reference to the fact that God creates through the word (Genesis 1, John 1).
Crown and sunburst streets language recalls the vision of heaven in Revelation.
The language of lost and found (from Amazing Grace) have shown up in U2's work since the single "I Will Follow" from their first studio album, Boy, in 1980. So that's one clue. That it is Bono's favorite hymn is another clue. They've sung Amazing Grace in concerts many times over the past 20 years. If this an underlying theme of the album, as I think it is, wow.

Anon and peace,
Chris