To understand Dirty Day, you have to understand the circumstances it was written under. Bono was improvising at the mic and Charles Bukowski was in his head. Tragedy and black feelings were there, maybe springing from his guilt about leaving his wife and children behind and a conversation, or perhaps a letter, between a father and the son whom he abandoned. Taken in that context, you can hear the father explore his thoughts, justifications, consequences, and emotions as he looks back many years later. The conversation seems to have been sparked through some kind of contact with the son, or perhaps it is just the result of the father examining his life.
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I don’t know you…
And you don’t know the half of it
I had a starring role…
I was the bad guy who walked out
They said be careful where you aim
Because where you aim you just might hit
You can hold onto something so tight
You’ve already lost it
Dragging me down
That’s not the way it used to be
You can’t even remember
What I’m trying to forget
It was a dirty day
A dirty day
You want explanations…
I don’t even understand
If you need someone to blame…
Throw a rock in the air
You’re bound to hit someone guilty
From father to son
In one life has begun
A work that’s never done
Father to son
(And love…it won’t last kissin’ time)
Get it right
There’s no blood thicker than ink
Hear what I say
Nothing’s simple as you think
Wake up
Somethings you can’t get around
I’m in you
More so when they put me in the ground
It was a dirty day
A dirty day
Hank says
The days run away like horses over the hill
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