[8] Bono stated to Q magazine that the lyrics "[sound] like a T-shirt slogan to me",[9] also noting that it was No Line on the Horizon's equivalent to "Beautiful Day".

Club feel lighting accompanied the song, while Larry Mullen Jr. walked around the outer stage playing a djembe.

[2][17][18] It depicts several people in a city undergoing hardships, and the events that interconnect them and bring them happiness as they decide to make changes in their lives.

while Mojo labelled it a "superficial pop anthem formed around a dainty kernel of pure melodic gold", calling the performance "[s]o cumulatively devastating is the band's delivery that it ennobles the succession of cute self-referential Bono homilies".

[22][23] Rolling Stone also likened the "harrowing" beginning of the O'Reilly video to a Disney film, calling the animation "incredible".

[18] Eoin Butler, writing in The Irish Times' The Ticket supplement, was less enthused about the release, labelling it U2's "most lacklustre offering to date".