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There are at least a couple more overt references to oral sex on U2's Achtung Baby, as well as other sexual references.
From "One":
Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
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You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
From "Until the End of the World":
But my sorrows they'd learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
The entire song "Even Better Than the Real Thing" is about sex.
I think perhaps these bands just have bad songwriters. I like how Bono can discuss sex in his lyrics but it's not like he's clubbing you over the head with it. It's more subtle. He does acknowledge that he had oral sex on the brain when he was writing Achtung Baby (this information is courtesy of Bill Flanagan's book U2 at the End of the World).
Lyrics have always been full of sex, especially in the genre of music most of these artists fall into. It's not one I listen to, perhaps because of the lack of lyrical subtlety.
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