You can’t really have a theme week on religion in pop music and leave out Bono. U2 is certainly the most successful band to ever write so openly about god and faith and some of their best songs are deeply religious.

A favorite of mine is this little-known track from the under-rated 1997 album, Pop. Pop remains the band’s worst-selling album and even the band members themselves have dismissed it as a failed experiment that they released essentially unfinished.

But while it isn’t perfect, the album does go places sonically that the band hadn’t gone before and it contains some deeply heartfelt and provocative material.

One of the best is the closing track ‘Wake Up Dead Man,’ a plea to Jesus to step in and bring order to the chaos of modern life. The opening lines are quite powerful, and the sort of thing I think we all can identify with at one time or another: “Jesus, help me, I’m alone in this world, and a fucked-up world it is, too.”

I suspect this crisis in faith was brought upon Bono by the unexpected death of a loved one. The final verse asks Jesus “Did you think to try and warn her?” and wonders if we can “rewind it just once more.”