Yes U2 I said yes U2 I will U2 Yes: A No Line on the Horizon review in lyrics

Yes, girls: I know a girl who’s like the sea (“No Line on the Horizon”); she’s a rainbow and she loves the peaceful life (“I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”); women of the future/Hold the big revelations/I got a submarine/You got gasoline (“Get On Your Boots”); I haven’t been with a woman, it feels like for years (“Cedars of Lebanon”).

Yes, love: Only love, only love can leave such a mark … only love can heal such a scar … only love unites our hearts (“Magnificent”); love, love, love, love, love, love, love (“Stand Up Comedy”); it’s not if I believe in love but if love believes in me (“Moment of Surrender”); got a love you can’t defeat (“Breathe”); once I knew there was a love divine (“White As Snow”).

Yes, music: The songs in your head are now on my mind (“No Line on the Horizon”), meet me in the sound (“Get On Your Boots”), to the rhythm of my soul (“Moment of Surrender”) while the band in my head plays a striptease … the songs are in our eyes … sing your heart out, sing my heart out (“Breathe”).

Yes, Pepsi: Every generation gets a chance to change the world (“I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”).

Yes, Windows XP: Force quit and move to trash (“Unknown Caller”).

Yes, Mrs. Hawking: She said, “Time is irrelevant, it’s not linear,” then she put her tongue in my ear (“No Line on the Horizon”).

Yes, natal care: I’m being born, a bleeding start (“FEZ—Being Born”); I was born, I was born to be with you … from the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise (“Magnificent”); every day I die again, and again I’m reborn (“Breathe”); baby, baby, baby, baby, baby (entire U2 catalog).

Yes, Travel Channel: I’m a traffic cop, Rue du Marais (“No Line on the Horizon”); Bay of Cadiz and ferry home … African sun at last (“FEZ—Being Born”), the road refuses strangers (“White As Snow”); Chinese stocks are going up … and I’m coming down with some new Asian virus (“Breathe”); watching the sun go down on Lebanon … unholy clouds reflecting in a minorette (“Cedars of Lebanon”).

Yes, Hallmark: If only a heart could be as white as snow (“White As Snow”); you don’t know how beautiful you are (“Get On Your Boots”); shout for joy if you get the chance (“Unknown Caller”); this shitty world sometimes produces a rose (“Cedars of Lebanon”).

Yes, money: I was punching in the numbers at the ATM machine (“Moment of Surrender”)

Yes, lyric-sheet proofreading: Napoleon, not Napolean, ruled France (“Stand Up Comedy”).

Yes, bastard: “Magnificent”

Yes, yes — oh, God, yes: Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (“No Line on the Horizon”); magnificent (“Magnificent”); oh, oh, oh, oh (“Unknown Caller”); oh oh oooohhhhhhhhh (“Moment of Surrender”); oh, oh, slowly now, oh, oh (“I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”); God, I’m going down (“Get On Your Boots”); love, love, love, love (“Stand Up Comedy”); head first, then foot (“FEZ—Being Born”); breathe now (“Breathe”).

Yes, informality: Oh, so now it’s Danny Lanois? You’re a genius, but the kids at the new school will still make fun of your headband.

Yes … will.i.am?: “Magnificent” (“additional keyboards”)

No, “music by U2”: “Get On Your Boots” (back to the cobbler), “Stand Up Comedy” (worse than Neil Hamburger).

Yes, “music by U2, Brian Eno and Danny Lanois”: “No Line on the Horizon” (best opener since “Zooropa” on album of same name), “Magnificent” (Who’s on handclaps? Danny? Clap, Danny!), “Moment of Surrender” (Your attention, please. Now arriving at Loops and Organ Chords International Airport: passengers in sunglasses, walking in slow motion, seen in Anton Corbijn sepia), “Cedars of Lebanon” (best album closer since “Love Is Blindness,” maybe better than that).

Yes, “lyrics by Bono”: See above, except “Magnificent.”

No, “lyrics by Bono”: Everything else, with special recognition given the tragic “Get On Your Boots.”

Yes, No Line on the Horizon? Yeah, hey hey (“Get On Your Boots”).