“Do you know what it means to us that an iconic band such as yours does this for us? It means EVERYTHING. Thank you,” shared another.
Someone else said, “Watching this from Israel and just crying. Thank you so much. It warms the heart in these unbearable dark days.”
The lyrics of “Pride (In the Name of Love)” also include:
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man, he resist
One man washed on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
The Backstory of ‘Pride (In the Name of Love)’ by Bono
Bono, the lead singer of U2, is unapologetically and publicly against violent behavior. Along with a number of causes, such as fighting AIDS and extreme poverty, Bono also joined Voices Against Violence along with Tony Bennett back in 2013.
And even before then, he wrote “Pride (In the Name of Love)” in 1984, the year Ronald Reagan won the election for a second presidential term. According to Genius, “Originally Bono wanted to write a song about Ronald Reagan’s arrogant pride in his military power, which inevitably led to heightened nuclear tensions during the Cold War.”
However, after reading biographies of leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, Bono “decided to focus on the pride ingrained in the causes of the African-American Civil Rights movement, and the comparison between the violent and nonviolent approaches each leader took.”
