El talento creativo de Bono se ve reflejado a la perfección en la lírica de Stay (Faraway, so close), perteneciente al disco Zooropa de 1993. La imagen que ven es parte del video promocional, el cual emula a la película para la cual se elaboró la canción "Faraway So Close", protagonizada por la bellísima Natasha Kinski. El film trata sobre un grupo de ángeles que viajan a la tierra. Uno de ellos se enamora de un humano. ¿Les suena familiar? Será porque existe un remake americano llamado "City of Angels" que cuenta con las actuaciones de Nicholas Cage y Meg Ryan.
Stay retrata la travesía de una mujer absolutamente perdida. Sufre un accidente y ni siquiera lo nota. Vaga por las calles con alguna interrogante. La voz de Bono y su toque omniciente da a entender que el sufrimiento obedece al amor, a la lejanía. Esta absoluta confusión sobre el destino, la realidad y la pérdida, más el arreglo en guitarra de "The Edge" que nos recuerda un familiar ritmo estilo "Manhattan sad blue" (canciones ideales para escuchar cuando se observa una metrópolis desde un veinteavo piso a la medianoche) nos fabrican un ambiente de nostalgia y placidez soberbio.
Una de mis canciones favoritas de U2 que les sugiero que bajen y escuchen en silencio -y a oscuras-.

Stay (Faraway, So Close)

Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke, don't even want to
I see you check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
The wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you, you don't mind
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive
Hey babe, is that what it is?

Red lights, grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows

And if you look, you look through me
And if you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

If I could stay... then the night would give you up
Stay, and the day would keep its trust
Stay, and the night would be enough

Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio
With satellite television
You can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast, and Berlin

And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout I'll only hear you

If I could stay... then the night would give you up.
Stay then the day would keep its trust
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay and the night would be enough

Three o'clock in the morning
It' quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel hits the ground