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Originally Posted by JunkFoodGenius
"Do They Know It's Christmas" is the best sanctimonious song EVER. I sang that at karaoke a few weeks ago, prefacing it as, "The scariest song of all time." Aside from the obvious "there is snow in Africa" (Mt. Kiliminjaro[sp]) and most of Africa couldn't care about Christmas, we see Bono getting his start at being smug and pointing a very sharp finger with, "Well, tonight thank God it's them instead of you!" (And if you listen to the long one, David Bowie does a mini-speech.)
...and all of this really rather reminds me of the Rumors-era line up of Fleetwood Mac...(topic!)
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bono didn't write that. Also it was the one line he didn't want to sing but bob geldoff convined him as it was the line he had planned for bono.