"It was very emotional," drummer Larry Mullen recalled in a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. "It’s a very special song, because it’s the first time that we ever really made a statement." "You know people are dying every single day through bitterness and hate, and we're saying, Why? Years later, Bono would confess that "it was a song whose eloquence lay in its harmonic power rather than its verbal strength." I just can't agree with this whole, 'If you don't agree with me I'll put a gun to your head' vibe.