The Wanderer U2 Featuring Johnny Cash

[Thrashslashedmashedp]

I'm not going to lie, calling a spade a spade here. I think religion is bullshit, and more a crutch in fear of their life ending and not being remembered. that's my opinion, but what I came here for was a man that inspired music I want to write and who I grew up with. Johnny Cash.

[djbarcode5xyz]

This reminds me of Alpine, TX, and west Texas in general. Listened to it a lot for the short time I lived out there. Reminds me of when I was happy.

[Martin1735]

Great song, really very inspiring!

[ErockWErock]

I SAY THE KILLERS OR BRANDON FLOWERS COVER THIS!!!!!

[Epicentr31]

@ErockWErock That would be... AMAZING!!!

[ErockWErock]

I SAY THE KILLERS OR BRANDON FLOWERS COVER THIS!!!!!

[compster48]

Cash &U2,what a combination & who'd of thoughtit?

[mike098456]

@compster48

I bloody agree.

[bluescommander]

This is a love song, above all other things.

[5AmSuN]

When I first heard this, I actually thought it was Edge singing. XD Hey, I was young and stupid then, didn't know better :P

[Penisbaard]

Geweldig _O_

[danzab22]

Armenia though the lyrics are definately subjective in many ways it is definately a sad song, Johnny Cash it at his best when he's critical, and he's critical of people who are selfish, people who use religion to justify their own means and talks of the experience of searching for the answer. But it's definately not a positive song about society or peoples selfishness.

[barn524]

this young Johnny kinda looks like a young Bono....just here tho I guess....must be the hair!

[MrMelodynelson]

this song are full of shit and truth.

[thebuzdar]

none of this is happening lol u gays are just crazy teapartiers lol

[ramtwos]

mrgyn...you dont no what yr taklking about F U

[Mrgyn]

@ramtwos

I was talking about how this song was used by a Christian show called "Heart of the matter" that debunks Mormonism.

[st123722]

HAHAHA SUM ONE SAID HE SING ABOUT MORMONISM HAHAHA OH SHIT THAT FUNNY

[82558061]

great song

[ArtDog010101]

This song makes me want to lift up my hands and heart and praise the Lord. This should be played in churches.

[lasalasg]

JOHNNY CASH, el màs grande. un mito. una leyenda, que pena que se pierda el tiempo en musicas totalmente vanale. ¡ ¡ GLORIA A TI EN EL CIELO JOHNNY ! !

[HitchikersBlues]

Johnny Cash another great Irish American Soul...Rock n Roll Johnny we love U2!!

Mr.ReedG, or whatever your silly name is? ...your on the wrong page man!

This is Rock n Roll...and Soul and... whatever? we know it we love it!! Peace & Love...

[davieboyplays1]

the AMAZING MR. JOHNNY CASH!!!!!

[XillaCompany]

Great song with a beautiful lyric, makes everything feel timeless

[MrReedg]

andy loves it. like he loves latin girls

[elcaptainkebab]

Of course tho, the bible isnt the beginning and end of spirituality.

[Jazzydiva29]

Not sad, prophecy being fulfilled today! Kind of exciting. He was best friends with Billy Graham remember & got his Doctorate in Bible. This is referencing scripture. Partly Daniel 2.

[shayneby]

@1:25 I stopped outside the church house where the citizens like to sit.

They say they want the kingdom but they don't want God in it.

This is what is happening now to America. How Sad

[Armeniacolombia29]

@shayneby What's sad about it?

[shayneby]

Kind of sad that what Johnny cash was singing is what is happening to America now. Listen to the song. Touching lyrics. Don't you see.

[Armeniacolombia29]

@shayneby Yea I listened to the song a number of times, I wouldn't consider it necessarily a sad thing.

[planes3333]

@Armeniacolombia29

thanks for upload dude, I really get a good feeling of my spirituality being lifted and I got choaked up, peace out : )

[tangerinespeed0]

@Armeniacolombia29 What @shayneby is trying to say is, "religious" people sit outside the churches and proclaim that America is the kingdom of god... but they don't really want god in their "kingdom." They just want some way to justify discriminating against people who are not like them.

[Rutlefan]

@Armeniacolombia29

The line means that people are content with a safe, complacent faith, at peace with the status quo; that is, they don't want their attitudes/actions to be challenged. It's the same criticism Keirkegaard and MLK had of the established churches of their times. So you don't see why this would sadden someone? No wonder that there are many like you, and so what, but I'm surprised someone as dense as you appear to be would post such a profound song.

[Armeniacolombia29]

@Rutlefan Wow what a way to characterize someone you don't know.

[ZackisDead]

@Rutlefan Your religious knowledge is surpassed only by your readiness to judge others. The OP that the uploader was responding to was basically saying it's sad that people in America don't want to be Christian (separation of church and state), which is a far greater misunderstanding of the song than you're projecting onto others.

In any event, you're interpretation is wrong. Per Johnny Cash and U2: "The lyrics describe a man searching for God in a post-Apocalyptic world." So much for your ego

[cleo715]

@Armeniacolombia29 I do consider sad having a church were people don't have any intention of listening to God's message, and much less acting like it (meaning loving and accepting your peers, forgiving)...if the intention is just for citizens to sit, well a public park would suffice, I guess what's sad it's that the "church house" that this song refers to gives people the feeling of entitlement to be judgemental since they're "church-going" people, when in reality they're basking in emptiness

[MiscellaneousOther]

@cleo715 I like your interpretation of god's message (loving and accepting your peers, forgiving etc.) but it doesn't fit with what is in the bible. I see in the old testament a god for just the israelites who encourages them to commit genocide on others (the canaanites) and to offer up their own daughters to be raped instead of their guests. The new testament god and the old testament god cannot be reconciled. I agree with your beliefs of tolerance and forgiveness, but I don't think god does.

[renix]

@shayneby Mmm. yeah not a sad thing. About time we stopped acting like children.

[ArtDog010101]

It's sad. It's joyful. It's beautiful. It's frightening. It's all those things. That's what makes it U2 and Cash.

[MediaFilter]

@Armeniacolombia29 One way of looking at it, even if you're not into worshipping God as a separate entity, is that people are forgetting themselves... forgetting what made their past actions special, even great. Loss of the god within themselves; a loss of sensitivity, humility, self-perspective. What's sad is that any society that is dead in it's heart to these things becomes increasingly a society not worth living in.

[TheFirstJedi]

@Armeniacolombia29 Damn straight.... we don't need "God" in our kingdom! :)

[Mrgyn]

@shayneby

He is singing about Mormonism.

[shayneby]

@Mrgyn really? How is that? Please explain.

[Mrgyn]

@shayneby

It perfectly explains Utah and the Mormons there. They want the Kingdom but they sure as hell don't want the King in it.

[shayneby]

@Mrgyn

Ok. Is that why Shawn McCrany uses it as his team song for his show? Maybe. Well the mormons got it all wrong. Joseph Smith put alot of people in bondage. Amazing! Thanks man.

[Mrgyn]

@shayneby

Yeah that's probably why he does. Although the song is also about other things as well.

[st123722]

@Mrgyn The lyrics describe a man searching for God in a post-Apocalyptic world. HAHAHHAHA HE DOESNT TALK ABOUT MORMONISM AT ALL IN THAT SONG HAHA

[st123722]

@Mrgyn Hahahaha stupid mormonism XDDD Oh shit that made me crack up AHhahaha Yea and Lady gaga sings about buddism hahaah

[Mrgyn]

@st123722

Excuse me? You really need to get rid of that ego of yours. This songs lyrics are open to interpretation and I shared that the lyrics relate to Mormonism at one point in the song.

You loud ignoramus.

[st123722]

@Mrgyn ego hahaha ego mormons have bigger ego then me and no mormonism in that song

[Mrgyn]

@st123722

I'm not a Mormon. The verse is insulting Mormons.

[st123722]

@Mrgyn A cobanation of the STDs guanaria, herpes, siphallis and aids

[paddykill]

@Mrgyn hahah



[mustsyfart2001]

@shayneby "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

That god?

[Treefrogs2]

@mustsyfart2001 "homophobic"- according to the bible god is not homophobic. That word means to "fear"

God in the old testament determined that homosexual acts were detestable and an affront to the good order of creation.

[mustsyfart2001]

@Treefrogs2 Actually if you look it up in almost all dictionaries it is along the lines of "fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals" -Merriam-Webster.

But that is even the least critical part. Don't worry though, there is no such god of the bible anyways. :)

[elisdewaard1]

@mustsyfart2001

read the bible better, then you see other things... look up the god of ''Moloch''

also read the other part about God, read about the stories of Moses, Abraham etc.

[mustsyfart2001]

@elisdewaard1 Oh, like how Abraham was going to sacrifice his own son? Do you think that's a good idea? Would you sacrifice your own son upon an altar if you thought your god told you to do so? And of course you're going to say "But, but, but in the story god sent an angel to stop him!" Still, Abraham was really going to do it. A terrible story, children in this day and age have been killed by events like these.

[cctman]

@mustsyfart2001 You absolutely miss the whole point... The best thing about that historical event was that he was so committed to what God wanted best and trusted in him that he was willing to do anything God asked of him. Of course God stopped him from doing this but how many people today have dedicated their hearts to God as Abraham did? None! That is sad!

[samojednom]

@shayneby Prophetic song, talking about America today. Where religious nuts wave the Bible but don't live by it. Where their "holier than thou" attitude does not apply behind their closed doors. Where Jesus looks at us as if we are all the same, but that is not how these folks look at other people of different color, religion or sexual orientation. Sad, indeed.

[losdeftones09]

@samojednom its more than just "in" america

[AnelIsaac]

@shayneby Not only there. Some other places, such as my hometown. I'm ashamed of it...

[jacojahoss]

The Johnny Cash 'Columbo' episode "Swan Song" was a classic. And this is a great, eerie track. Would be nice to hear a totally acoustic version.

[manumcgoo]

johnn cash wata legend...im 15 and i cant stop listenin 2 his songs.....and this isnt jus a phase

[jeannevdb]

great share! thank you!

[TreesTheGreenLove]

Love it!

[KENOEFF]

cool share

[bigeeezy]

Very cool. Thanks sean for sharing

[orangewoman671]

Love it! Thanks Cantshaketheblues for the share! 5*

[CDBigShow]

must EVERY U2 song I hear sound like Bono the vampire is in a stadium?

[zacsutubeaccount]

I just LOVE this song, i mean the backing is incredible!!

[argoninja2112]

it's somewhere different for me.

this is one of the saddest songs i've ever heard.

i always find it hard to focus on anything else when this is playing.

those backing vocals are so perfect and devastating.

i've been very curious to hear Bono's version from the Zooropa sessions.

Brian Eno wanted him to release that version instead,

but Bono wanted Johnny's voice.

it's not only perfect for the song,

but it serves as another mask,

like The Fly character or MacPhisto or The Mirrorball Man.

[borselva]

totally with you, argoninja. Bought this album when seriously down, didn't really help me at that time! So, still this evokes that sadness.

[slickmagic]

very true, The best is " I went out walking under an atomic sky"

[borselva]

slickmagic, all the lines with I evoke personalising, up to us whether they apply or conjure up the right picture. For me, "atomic sky" is linked to the dvd "the atomic cafe", apocalyptic pictures there.

[Armeniacolombia29]

I agree with borselva. Lol

[slickmagic]

why?

[slickmagic]

true because of the propaganda and atomic bomb and what not, but its so hard to not take what he says and see it and feel it when walking down the street listening to it. try it. go out for a walk and just feel it instead of trying to find the root meaning. it feels better. your right in seeing what maybe the meaning but, i like to just feel it, let it sink real down low and make you feel....angry and all those feeling music gives you.

[Armeniacolombia29]

The words(lyrics) are subjective, that's what I believe. Someone might take it spiritual, another metaphorical, another literally, etc.

[borselva]

I like your idea of listening to it while "walking down the street". I live in the country, lake view, in The Netherlands, but I can imagine that with the sky coloured like in "Seven", and being in a particular state of mind in a 21st century megalopolis, it combines to make you feel, well, depressed, but at the same time impressed by the music.

[slickmagic]

Thats Right also. JOHNNY CASH FOREVER! I always thought of this song being about him, in general. Searching for god.

[leiberfrasmilch]

The most inspiring song I ever heard.If this song don't heal ya nothin will.

[planes3333]

@leiberfrasmilch

I got some good healing from this song, and from other really big sources ; )

[leiberfrasmilch]

@planes3333 Yeah,keep training.Body ,mind and spirit.

[planes3333]

@leiberfrasmilch

thanks