Isn't the narrator undoubtedly double-stricken by cancer curse, facing a lookalike of himself who is actually an angel diguised as a human demon, and both ending in murder-suicide?
Suppose that the narrator has both melanoma and throat cancer, and he finds this condition so unbearable that he would interrupt his treatment. While he is fixing a night star in the sky, another person interrupts him. The gender of the other person may not be known, being a human demon, but the narrator recognizes the other as an exact lookalike of himself. So, the lookalike sparks up a cigar and hands it to the narrator despite his illness, and plays guitar to him before he dies, but at the narrator's request, the demon has to explain him why cancer has taken all control.
But the narrator notices a gun at the demon's belt, meaning the latter has come to stop the former from suffering. Attracted by the demon, he completely believes the lookalike's words, but there is no mention whether the other tells him something true about the enduring illness, and both end up in murder-suicide. After their burials, both the narrator and the demon's souls dig up the earth and end up in the sky and the demon, who was actually an angel in disguise, teaches him how to fly.
The most remarkable parts of the video are those with The Edge and Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie). It actually shows both angel and demon versions of the foursome.
U2 - Elevation Lyrics Meaning
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