{"id":427,"date":"2006-09-20T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/waiting-for-bono-on-bebo\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:09:28","slug":"waiting-for-bono-on-bebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/waiting-for-bono-on-bebo\/","title":{"rendered":"waiting for bono on bebo"},"content":{"rendered":"

waiting for bono on bebo [mp3<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Waiting for Colgan<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m so tired, I’m so tired of the telephone…
\nThe telephone rings…
\nThe sound of cigar…a booming voice in a booming town
\nShattering the glasses of the drinking classes
\n1995 Puligny Montrachet<\/a>, 400 quid a bottle…glug glug glug…
\nGood buy…good boy<\/p>\n

One hundred years, one hundred bum steers, one hundred and
\nseventeen thousand black beers before your peers
\nOne hundred ears flappy happy happy clappy ears
\nIt’s hard not to be happy when you feel the sappy in someone
\nelse’s veins
\nAs they kick a banana ball through the splits
\nOn your birthday
\nAnd Ireland
\nWins the triple crown on your birthday<\/span><\/a>
\nIt’s your birthday, it’s your birthday
\n
\nI’ve been waiting
\nWaiting a long time
\nOne hundred years
\nIt gets tiring all this velvety blackness
\nthat’s what Le Brocquy calls it…
\nVelvety blackness but there’s no nothingness
\nOh no, just everythingness and judgment
\nThe judgment of your peers…
\nWhere’s Gaybo? Who’s Ryanair? W
\nhere are the trolley dollies?
\nIt’s not dollys on the trolleys now
\nIt’s the living and the dead clogging up the arteries of the
\nhealth service
\noh yest late to the late…late to the Late Late Show
\nIsn’t Brendan Gleeson the business
\nThe pricks
\nThe celts
\nWaiting, waiting for the tiger to catch its tail,
\nI’m waiting for the phone to ring
\nMichael Colgan
\nThe sound of cigar
\nBooming town, booming voice, shattering the glasses of the
\ndrinking classes
\nPuligny Montrachet 1995
\n400 quid a bottle
\nGlug glug glug
\nOne hundred years
\nI’m so tired<\/p>\n

Louis and Anne, remember you gave me a signed copy of the
\nunforgettable fire?
\nI told you I loved it? I lied. I never listened to it.<\/p>\n

Too busy
\nWaiting
\nWaiting for language to turn to liquid
\nWaiting for language to be our own again<\/p>\n

Oh, Joyce had his revenge on they that put it in our mouth
\nHis revenge
\nWas to chew it, bite into it, masticate and masterbate it
\nMake chewing gum of it
\nSpit it into hand and stick it on the bottom of a schoolboy’s
\ndesk<\/p>\n

Me…I shrank it, swallowed it, made a fart out of it, made a fart
\nout of everyone who didn’t like the smell of it
\nSuch confusion caused by ignoring the obvious
\nMetaphor…I only met her for a drink…ha ha that’s what Simon
\nsays
\nBlack Bush. George Bush the da says
\nThe bombs are dropping closer, the Brudder Nikki Sudden
\nShattering the glasses of the drinking classes
\nPuligny Montrachet 1995 glug glug glug<\/p>\n

Mother’s milk
\nI never had the mother tongue…
\nJust the father’s cranky aloof and lofty voice
\nThat language was always there growing like teeth in the gum,
\nlike Chomsky says
\nI got closer to the brain than anyone before or after<\/p>\n

I could hear you thinking,
\nI can hear you thinking now
\nBlinkin’ phone rings…sound of cigards
\nMichael Colgan birthday parties
\nPuligny Montrachet, 1995, 400 quid a bottle
\nglug glug glug<\/p>\n

I’m so tired
\nAll those PhDs
\nAll those questions
\nWhere’s Godot
\nWho’s Godot…
\nEveryone knows that
\nphone rings, sound of cigars
\nTable at the Unicorn
\nPuligny Montrachet
\nGlug glug glug
\nBig smoky voice shattering the glasses of the drinking classes
\nBirthday party sort it out…
\nTell them death isn’t funny but eternity is a laugh
\nTell the tiger not to eat its tale
\nAh to win the triple crown on your birthday
\nParties, it’s great to have them and not be there…
\nBut don’t leave people waiting for too long
\nOne hundred years, it’s a long time
\nThe table is set, it looks great Michael
\nThe sound of cigar, booming town, booming voice
\nShattering the glasses of the drinking classes
\nPuligny Montrachet, glug glug glug
\nWaiting, waiting, waiting…to be fuckin’ understood
\nWating, waiting, waiting…for Colgan
\nGood boy, goodbye.’<\/p>\n

– Bono<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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