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116 | Vaughan S. Roberts www.jrfm.eu 2018, 4/1, 111–116 each other” … The song is a bit twisted, which is why I could never figure out why people wanted it at their weddings. I have certainly met a hundred people who’ve had it at their weddings. I tell them, “Are you mad? It’s a song about splitting up.”12 It is clear from the titles of the albums Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experi- ence that William Blake’s poetic imagination and his two contrary states of the human soul are shaping U2’s own collective artistic vision in the second decade of the 21st century. Yet, it is arguable that in songs such as “Exit”, “Until the End of the World” and “One” a similar dynamic was already in play in both U2’s lyrics and their performance. In this respect the “Joshua Tree Thirtieth Anni- versary Tour” was not an expression of “Kumbaya” but a re-envisaging of the two contrary states of religious faith and of political faith that have consistently informed U2’s music. BIBLIOGRAPHY @U2 Staff, 2017, Final Thoughts on The Joshua Tree Tour, @U2, 5 November 2017, https://www. atu2.com/news/u2-staff-final-thoughts-on-the-joshua-tree-tour-2017.html [accessed 17 January 2018]. Blake, William, 2001 [1794], Songs of Innocence and of Experience, DjVu Editions Ebooks, http:// triggs.djvu.org/djvu-editions.com/BLAKE/SONGS/Download.pdf [accessed 9 January 2018]. Eno, Brian, 2017, Brian Eno on Atheism, Surrender and Control, https://www.youtube.com/watch?- v=li0RLw7Rpqo, [accessed 17 January 2018]. Exit (U2 Song), 2018, Wikipedia https://en.wikipe- dia.org/wiki/Exit_(U2_song) [accessed 17 January 2018]. Mojo Staff, 2017, U2 Joshua Tree Exclusive in Latest MOJO, MOJO, 16 February 2017, https://www. mojo4music.com/articles/25194/u2-joshua-tree-exclusive-latest-mojo [accessed 9 January 2018]. One (U2 Song), 2018, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(U2_song) [accessed 17 January 2018]. DISCOGRAPHY Achtung Baby (U2, 1991). Songs of Innocence (U2, 2014). Songs of Experience (U2, 2017). The Joshua Tree (U2, 1987). 12 “One” (U2 Song) 2018.