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Every Breaking Wave" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the second track from their thirteenth studio album, Songs of Innocence, and was released as its second single. It was produced by Danger Mouse and Ryan Tedder, with additional production from Declan Gaffney.

Lead vocalist Bono said that the band began recording "Every Breaking Wave" in Sydney, Australia, but "then it went down the drain for seven years, up the arse, as these things do."[2] The song was originally intended to be included on U2's 2009 studio album No Line on the Horizon. In an article previewing the album several weeks before release, Rolling Stone called the song a "swelling soul-pop song, with bright synth sounds influenced by OMD".[3] However, the track was ultimately left off the album at the advice of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who told the band that the song "deserves to be finished."[4][5] Speaking of material the band were working on, Bono said the song was producer Jimmy Iovine's favorite.[6] Bono mentioned tentative plans for the group to release a follow-up record, Songs of Ascent, comprising songs from No Line's recording sessions,[5][7] and said that the first single was intended to be "Every Breaking Wave".[5] However, the project was continually delayed, as U2 struggled to complete an album to their satisfaction and were limited by other commitments.[8]

When the group resumed their U2 360 Tour in August 2010, they debuted "Every Breaking Wave" with a live performance, making it one of several unreleased tracks to be debuted.[9] As the band continued recording for their next studio album, the song was altered; after Ryan Tedder was brought on as a co-producer in 2013, the song was one of the tracks that he changed most, as he introduced a new chorus melody and moved the old one to the song's bridge.[10]

Bono described the song as being about the difficulty of "giv[ing] yourself completely to another person", with lyrical characters who are "addicted to sort of failure and rebirth".[10] He referred to the chorus lines "Every dog on the street / Knows we're in love with defeat / Are we ready to be swept off our feet / And stop chasing every breaking wave" as a chance for the characters of two lovers to "make a break for it". A previous version of the song included the lines "After every peak, the trough / I can feel the energy drop / Will we ever know when to stop / With this chasing every breaking wave", which Bono said "has a certain despair that's powerful."[11]

An acoustic version of the song, recorded in Malibu, California, was included on the deluxe version of the album. This version features the Edge on piano and an orchestra accompaniment written by David Richard Campbell.[11]

The song's official music video is a truncated, four-and-a-half-minute version of the 13-minute short film Every Breaking Wave, which was directed by Irish director Aoife McArdle.[12][13] The film dramatizes the violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland during the 1980s by depicting a teenage couple on opposing sides of the conflict. McArdle used the album and acoustic versions of "Every Breaking Wave" in the film, along with another track from Songs of Innocence, "The Troubles".[14] The film premiered on 12 February 2015 before the music video was released on 23 February.[14]

Ben Patashnik of NME said that "Every Breaking Wave" is "characterised by restraint rather than bombast and is another obvious highlight, concerned with relaxing into calmness rather than killing yourself trying to take every opportunity out there. It's subtle and sensitive, and it shows that U2 are still capable of true wonder".[15] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine cited the Edge's "whining guitar strains" on the song as one example of his "melodies and atmospheric licks" being "the real star of the album".[16] Kenneth Partridge of Billboard said the track is "strong enough to keep fans from messing with their iPhones" and suggested it could be paired with "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" for live performances.[17] Evan Sawdey of PopMatters said the track was "perhaps the album's most successful pop moment".[18] Jon Pareles of The New York Times said it was one of the album's "two most direct songs about romance, with sturdy melodies and straightforward buildups", describing it further as being "tinged with misgivings and ambivalences."[19]

Carl Wilson of Spin said he was "less moved" by the track than others on the album, saying it sounded like "someone turned the 'U2' dial up to 11".[20] Reviewing Songs of Innocence, Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said, "You might detect a certain whiff of desperation in the fact that parts of the album sound distinctly like Coldplay", citing the resemblance that the guitar line to "Every Breaking Wave" has to a melody from Coldplay's song "Paradise".[21] Kitty Empire of The Observer echoed this sentiment, saying that the song "creates a little fold in the time-space continuum, by sounding like Coldplay sounding like U2".[22] Dan Lucas of Under the Radar called the song one example of the band "self-plagiarising" themselves on the record, saying "the intro... is essentially a polished 'With or Without You'".[23]

Rolling Stone ranked "Every Breaking Wave" as the third-best song of 2014, calling it a "stark, shimmering ballad" that stands as the "emotional centerpiece of Songs of Innocence".[24] The magazine later ranked it the 49th-best song of the 2010s.[25]

And finally, the killer end. Should we end before we begin? Do I want to risk getting hurt. Do I want to take the chance and give it up to God? Or do I protect myself from all of it by not opening up at all. Do I do it alone or do I ask for help? I think we can all identify with those words in some way.

So you are saying you have NEVER been wrong in the past. Happy and argue are not two words I would use together, as usually arguing involves anger, and has a tendency to devolve into one or more of the participants lashing out.

There is a major flaw in that arguement. I KNOW what it is; specifically, the theory of relatively only applies to things that have mass. Information, regardless how it is obtained, does not have mass. I have had knowledge about things that I could not have obtained via presently available information or methods. Not only did I KNOW the knowledge was 100% accurate, it was confirmed to me by the person or persons directly responsible for it.

What I hear/see/feel as I read the above paragraph is, you turned what I said 180 d taken something you misunderstood competely, out of context, and have not only did you misinterpret what I said/typed, you have made judgements about my character that are not correct. The feeling your words are conveying, the tone if you will, is one of disdain, and you feel justified.

Obviously you know what you mean. And typing is far from the best way to express yourself because it leaves so much to interpretation. I can tell you absolutely there was no disdain. You presented conflicting ideas in what I read. I have no idea what your reality is. I only know what I thought I read in it. Always, I can be wrong.

Ahhh, so you are now a literalist? Countries cannot isolate themselves physically but they sure can politically. Religion has power if people believe in it. Money can be used by people for evil and money, when accumulated can corrupt people. Calling money evil is just a euphemism for what it does to some people. I know your point here is people. Nothing I said about any of that does not take it into account.

Sorry but I think you are miles off base thinking a lack of flexibility is a good thing. Standing firm in a global situation might apply. And there may be times when sticking to your guns is appropriate. But for the most part, an unwillingness to listen and adapt when someone else may also have a relevent point of view just leads to stand-off and leaving no room to live with each other.

Come to think it of it, a lack of flexibility could be a life saver. If faced with having to shelter in place during a hurricane with two options to choose from, a structure made of concrete which lacks flexibility or a tent made of fabric which is highly flexible, I would go with the concrete every single time. I realize saying that lacks flexibility.

The play thing was simply saying if you are causing some of your own grief that you need to recognize it and make changes. I have no idea what your situation really is or how it came about. So the idea may or may not apply to you.

Bono has a knack for all sorts of things. He can pure nonsense and there are people who will attribute profound meaning, and will tell you EXACTLY what HIS meaning is. They will tell you in no uncertain terms the exact bible reference he was drawing from even. My favorite quote of his is:

Have you ever felt, or rather knew, that if you wanted to, you could communicate with every life form on this planet, and they with you? A feeling of expansion where you were filling up all the available physical space around you, yet you knew, could see with your own two eyes, you were still regular you? It is the coolest thing EVER, well, so far anyway.

"Breaking the Plastic Wave," a global analysis using first-of-its kind modeling, shows that we can cutannual flows of plastic into the ocean by about 80% in the next 20 years byapplying existing solutions and technologies. No single solution canachieve this goal; rather, we break the plastic wave only by takingimmediate, ambitious, and concerted actions.

Although progress has been made in addressing the global plastic challenge, commitments by governments and industry will reduce the annual volume of plastic flowing into the ocean by only about 7% by 2040. Most new regulations focus on specific items rather than systemic change, and do not significantly curb the projected growth in plastic production. Businesses are focused mainly on recycling or otherwise disposing of plastic, but significant efforts are also needed to eliminate its use.

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