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Another Unlikely Lyric

I’ve been listening to U2’s “I Will Follow” for over 25 years (not continuously). But only recently did I pay attention to this lyric:

Your eyes make a circle

Two eyes, of course, make a line.

So I am forced to conclude that the person whom Bono is addressing has more than two eyes. Actually, since three eyes make a triangle and four eyes, however you position them, don’t really look circular, I think he must be singing to somebody with, at a bare minimum, five eyes.

posted 7 July 2008 in Tasty Bits and tagged , . 1 comment

One Comment Thus Far on Another Unlikely Lyric

  1. Scott Underwood Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    If he went the long way around the head, your eyes would describe most of a circle, so maybe Bono was considering non-Euclidean geometry when he wrote that.

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