'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'

' I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' started out life as something completly different, a jam called, for some mysterious reason, 'Under The Weather Girls'. It was a bit of a one-note groove but it had a great drum part so we kept the drums and this whole new melody came and all the music changed to fit around that melody.--Adam

That song wasn't as arduous as most, even though it had its moments, and we knew it was going to be our trophy.--Larry

It was kind of an interesting jam, an odd backbeat from Adam and Larry. At first I wasn't so convinced. It sounded to me a little like 'Eye of the Tiger' played by a reggae band. There are only a few moments of full-on electricity-in-the-air creativity that I remember from the making of that album, but the birth of 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' is one.--Edge

I started to realize taht the lyrics on the first four albums are not really lyrics at all, they're sketches. I wasn't a writer really I was a painter, or an emoter or a shouter. I seemed to have almost a fear of writing, it was an advanced form of procrastination. With Joshua Tree, I decided I'd better write some lyrics. I was reading more anyway so I was more awake to the word. I discovered a love for writers and started to feel like one of them.--Bono

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