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It may have already been done. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, the second cut on The Joshua Tree, has one of those seemingly casual melodies that, a little like a high-flying version of the Police's Every Breath You Take, is heard once and slips directly into the collective memory. It manages to work much of what the band believes in, yearns for and has gone through, in the past and in prospect, into a single simple, elegant reflection:
I believe in the Kingdom Come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
But yes I'm still running
You broke the bonds
You loosed the chains
You carried the cross
And my shame . . .
You know I believe it
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for . . .*
Let them run on, then. They are not likely to get caught. And they already know the way home.
FOOTNOTE: *Copyright (c) 1987 by U2. All rights for the U.S.A. administered by Chappell & Co. Inc.