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Fun and freedom are among the arguments for fireworks. Fire chiefs are worried about safety.
Suit and tie comes up to me
His face red
Like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colours of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
— "Bullet the Blue Sky," 1987
U2's angry, angst-driven anthem was meant to be a stinging political commentary on President Ronald Reagan's '80s foreign policy, and the band's seminal work, The Joshua Tree, was, by extension, an explorative essay about Americana, with Nevada's desert plain serving as its cinematic lyrical leitmotif.