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"It's a big deal to have your chest cut open. It was a long surgery. I tend to and I shouldn't judge things by their effect on the music, but it certainly made me more vulnerable to music. We did some of our songs of Songs of Experience for the BBC, with an orchestra. It wasn't long after surgery and I remember almost having to block out the words as I was saying them. It was too much. It was like hearing them for the first time." - Bono on his brush with mortality, 2022

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The Picture of Dorian Grey mentioned in the song 'The Ocean' is a novel by Oscar Wilde, the Irish author who has been a huge influence on Bono's lyrics. In referring to it, Bono mocks his own vanity in thinking a rock star can change the world.

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