U2 IRIS - HOLD ME CLOSE
U2 IRIS - HOLD ME CLOSE
This song is from 2015 when I was living in Market Street, Wellington, Telford. I used to work at Shawbirch Service Station, a petrol station. The incident in this song is between me and a girl who lives in the same house as me, where I sing to her.
I was staying in a room on the second floor. She was staying in a room on the first floor. We both shared the same kitchen, which was quite large.
During those days, I could sense a peer pressure from my workplace and the surrounding environment.
Peer pressure refers to the influence exerted by a person's peers, or people of similar age, status, or interests, to conform to certain behaviors, attitudes, or values. This influence can be positive or negative, and can affect an individual's decisions, actions, and emotions.
That peer pressure was like everyone was pointing at me to look at her. Also, I had a crush on her, so I intentionally went to the kitchen many times over several days just to talk to her, because I wanted her to like me.
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This was when the petrol station where I worked, Shell, was taken over by a different company called Apple Green, and their logo and colours were changed.
As mentioned in the U2 song Cedar Wood Road post, the old Shell petrol station's logo looked like the sun. It was gone and replaced by the new logo of Apple Green company. This is referred to as 'the star light has gone'.
The ache in my heart is so much apart of who I am.
I once asked her what she was doing She replied doctor. Ever since I went to the UK, I don't think much of myself at that time. When she answered like that, a thousand thoughts ran through my mind. They flowed like rivers in my mind like previous birth memories.
It's been 7 years since I came to the UK. But my condition is poor. Even those who came after me are more prosperous and have better jobs than me. My situation is just a basic cashier.
I studied at Hartley College in Sri Lanka. I had many friends. Doctors among them were my close friends. When she said her job was a doctor, all these memories came flooding back, as if I was in a coma and suddenly woke up.
Something in your eyes took a thousand years to get here.
Since I came to the UK, my behaviour character interests haven't been right. To say it directly would be impolite. That's why it's been said indirectly and politely pointed out in U2's song 'Miracle of Joy' - 'I was young, not dumb, just wishing to be blinded'. This reflects your view of me. It means that I couldn't immediately change your perception of me in your mind.
Hold me close and don't let me go.
This is truly what came to my mind when I saw her.
Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know.
This was a doubt in my mind, but I don't want to mention it here.
Hold me close
The darkness just let us see.
Where I want to be held close by her,
the darkness represents adversity, challenges, and difficult times.
Who we are I have got your Life inside of me.
I am the one who has the living life.(casual light life). This is mentioned by God.
Iris.......
Once we are born we begin to forget
That very reason we came......
We are truly born for bliss, born for this. Every human life begins with a kiss. This is clearly mentioned in U2's song 'The Crystal Ballroom'.
But you...
This occurred at a different time and place. It happened during my visit to my my cousin' home in Italy during the last months of 2022 when I went there on vacation.
I've sure I met long before the night the stars went out.
This was something I didn't expect at all. I saw the same soul again in my cousin's face. I understood for sure that it was her.
We are meeting up again.
Iris and I meet again in Italy.
Hold me close and don't let me go.
Same feeling as when we met a long time ago.
Hold me close
The darkness just let us see.
Same feeling as when we met a long time ago.
Who we are I have got your Life inside of me.
This time it is a wish that the passing of many years has created a good impression of me.
Something in your eyes took a thousand years to get here.
Bad opinion about me took me many years to get here.
The Stars are bright but do they know?
It refers to the two women involved.
The universe is beautiful but cold.
I really don't know who the universe is.
You took me by the hand.
You caught me through your agents/hands/henchmen, without directly approaching me.
I thought that I was leading you.
I thought I would guide you.
But it was you made me your man.
But my preferences and dislikes had no place, and you decided to make me a mechanical human with no room for my likes and dislikes.
Machine I dream where you are.
I dream of where you are like a mechanical man.
Iris standing in the hall.
The soul of the iris is inside my cousin's body. My cousin is standing in the hall of his house.
She tell me I can do it all.
She asked me to do some household chores for her. They were just routine tasks. But it's not just that. When I'm in trouble, some senses within me get activated. This can be called the fight for survival. It helps me survive in a dangerous situation. It means the tactics I would use to escape from her grasp. The tricks I do to escape from her clutches.
Iris wakes to my nightmare.
This is happening when I'm in Trichy Camp in India. It means she's inducing bad dreams and calling me into those dreams. Here, the bad dreams refer to a dark, imaginative sex slavery world, devoid of normal physical intimacy.
Don't fear the world it isn't there.
Such a world doesn't exist in India. There's no need to fear it. What it means here is that such a dark, imaginative sex slavery world doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean she isn't here.
Iris playing on the strand.
It also means survival through hairline escape. What it means is that the world I mentioned earlier doesn't exist here (in India), but she has come here searching for me. She stood outside the window of my room and, She lured me into her trap, calling out to me loudly, saying 'Ush, ush'. as usual she used to do everyone to catch.
She buries the boy beneath the sand.
She has a power, and when she calls out like that, the person's soul gets separated. They become dirty-minded and get hypnotized, becoming submissive to her commands. For more information on this, please refer to my blog post 'Vatapi who was digested (destroyed) by Agathiyar'.
Iris says that I will be.
She says that I would have been dead, meaning my soul would have been separated and I would have been under their control, with a dirty mind, and would have been ruined.
The death of her,
It was not me.
But that was her death, not mine. She was attacked by the Lord Shiva and became a dirty mind. Moreover, they won't be able to change anyone else from now on.
Iris.....
She said free yourself to be yourself
If only you could see yourself.
It means that if I can take care of myself, I don't need to go on pilgrimages.
In U2's song 'The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)', it says 'I was young, not dumb, just wishing to be blinded. By you, brand new, we were pilgrims on our way.' Now, since I've come to my punk rock party, I no longer need to go on pilgrimages. Because I was born again to the latest sound. It means I've regained my lost vision. Also, I didn't go on a pilgrimage with anyone.
New race is different and brand new is different. Brand new is the new that no one has touched.
I was young, not dumb, just wishing to be blinded" lyrics by U2 - miracle of joy ramone means, my behavior and character is not right. So i had to pilgrims with brand new mentor. I did not go on a pilgrimage, nor do I need to do it anymore.
A mentor is only necessary for someone whose behavior and character are not good, but for someone with good behaviour, a mentor is no need.
Furthermore, it was because my old habits and customs were blindly followed that I needed to go on pilgrimages with a mentor. But after correcting myself for over 7 years and coming to my party, they are no longer needed.
Now, those who saying to me that, 'I need a mentor' is the one who needed mentor. This is because their habits and customs are extremely blinded, bad, and cruel.
My Additional note...
I wasn't aware of U2's album 'Songs of Innocence'. I had an iPhone, and while I was on Market Street in Wellington, the entire 'Songs of Innocence' album by U2 was downloaded to my iTunes. That's when I first listened to those songs.
I have a strong devotion to God. Since I was at the BP petrol station in Spalding, I clearly understood that some power within me driving me.
Those songs automatically downloading onto my iPhone was a huge surprise to me. I completely believed that they were the songs given by God to me.
I strongly believed that the automatic download of those songs was an act of God. This is because many such incidents had happened to me during those days.
Later, I found out that the album was given for free to everyone by Apple. That too was an act of God. Later, I clearly understood that God was guiding me within me.
I am self-directed.
