So Cruel ; Achtung Baby (6/12)

Hoy os dejo un trozo de mi vida que Bono ya supo evocar incluso antes de que ocurriera con esta escalofriante letra sobre una de esas relaciones absurdas en las que uno cuando se quiere dar cuenta ha sido atropellado y abandonado en la carretera. Luego con el paso de los años uno recapacita y entiende que quizás las cosas no fueran así, que simplemente uno vio unas luces y decidió abalanzarse sobre ellas. Quizás más que una letra sobre la crueldad, podríamos hablar de una letra sobre la idiotez como el propio Bono concede en la última estrofa. Una de las mejores letras sobre rupturas jamás hechas junto al "Insurrección" de "El Ultimo de la Fila" o "Nothing compares 2 U" de Prince.

You're so cruel

Who crossed the line, who pushed who over?

It doesn’t matter to you, it matters to me.

We’re cut adrift, but still floating.

I’m only hanging on to watch you go down, my love.

I disappeared in you

You disappeared from me.

I gave you everything you ever wanted

It wasn’t what you wanted.

The men who love you, you hate the most

They pass right through you like a ghost.

They look for you, but your spirit is in the air.

Baby, you’re nowhere.

Oh, love, you say in love there are no rules.

Oh, love, sweet-heart, you’re so cruel.

Desperation is a tender trap

It gets you every time.

You put your lips to her lips

To stop the lie.

Her skin is pale like God’s only dove

Screams like an angel for your love

Then she makes you watch her from above

And you need her like a drug.

Oh, love, you say in love there are no rules.

Oh, love, sweet-heart, you’re so cruel.

She wears my love like a see-through dress

Her lips say one thing, her movements something else.

Oh, love, like a screaming flower

Love dying every hour.

Ah, you don’t know if it’s fear or desire,

Danger the drug that takes you higher?

Head of heaven, fingers in the mire

Her heart is racing you can’t keep up.

The night is bleeding like a cut

Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.

Oh, love, to stay with you I’d be a fool.

Oh, sweetheart, you’re so cruel.