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Author/Artist: U2
Title: Bullet the Blue Sky
Album: Rattle and Hum
Transcribed by: Scott Hashbarger
Email: scootermuhbob@yahoo.com
Tune down 1/2 step. Most of the chords use a slide,
except for the Chorus.
For the slide parts (and solo) he uses distortion
with some slap back delay and echo.
Intro (also played before solo)
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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lewi Wanna Be |
#1 by lewi broadway at Nov 4, 1982 at 8:47 PM EST |
| Chaotic song. Apocalypse Now worthy. The imagery and singing just evokes spiraling smoke, burned homes and bodies, ruined cities.... | |
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Kyle Wanna Be |
#2 by Kyle Kom at May 4, 1983 at 11:31 PM EST |
| sepultura play the song a mile better. | |
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$~Andrew~$ Average |
#3 by $~Andrew~$ at May 30, 1992 at 4:31 AM EST |
| Whether live or recorded, this song is fantastic. And of course it's anti-American. The line "Who run into the arms of America" prove this. Clearly these women and children are not running into the military arms of America. I was particularly impressed with how Bono turned it round to get at America's domestic policy as well as foreign policy on the Elevation tour. I've had a problem with the gun laws in America for quite a while but the images of the little girl holding a gun made me feel physically sick. And whoever that guy is who said "There are no good guns, there are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. A gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone but bad people." He's an idiot. So that little girl is a bad person? I think not. | |
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James Wanna Be |
#4 by James Makowiecki at Aug 26, 1999 at 11:11 PM EST |
| There's a lot of stuff in this song that suggests the weapons trade, and the concomitant effects on the countries that get pulled into its tentacles: "from the firefly a red orange glow" - is the afterburner of a firefly missile. The rap delineates an actual weapons deal... this guy comes up to me, face red... the man is embarrassed or nervous about the transaction that's about to occur "he's peeling off those dollar bills, one hundred..." is the payment "and I can see those fighter planes" - the fruit of the deal. across the mud huts where the children sleep, through the valleys and the quiet city streets - here are the effects of the deal - terror and death "I take the staircase to the first floor, turn the key and slowly unlock the door, a man breathes into a saxophone, through the walls we hear the city groan, outside is America" - this is another scene where the buyer meets the seller, or vice-versa, and paints a picture of indifference to the misery produced by the weapons industry (the city groans). That a man can play a saxophone before making such a deal belies his coldbloodedness. This reminds me of stories about Nazi leaders that loved classical music and were sometimes brought to tears by it, while people were being tortured and murdered in their concentration camps. | |
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chris Average |
#5 by chris nagel at Jun 6, 2005 at 9:57 AM EST |
| I like the song I thought it really hit home with a lot of people around the USA who heard it. Bono Edge Adam an Larry Jr are all great an talented artist. I like this song best on the Rattle an Hum DVD the best elevation was a good vertion of it I also agree on what U2elevation said. | |
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