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“Kite” is the fifth track from U2’s 2000 album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
A popular number among fans, the song had its origins in a kite-flying outing on Killiney Hill overlooking Dublin Bay that Bono attempted with his daughters.[1] The outing went quickly awry when the kite crashed and one of the girls asked to go home and play with a video game. [2] So the song was at first written with Bono’s daughters in mind, or more generally, about a kite as a metaphor for someone or something escaping one’s realm of control; the song is, more or less, about Bono realizing a day will come when his daughters will “no longer need him.” The Edge helped out on the words, and felt that the lyric was actually aimed in the opposite direction, about Bono’s emotionally-reserved father: “He couldn’t see it, but I could.” Then while singing it, Bono recalled a similarly ill-fated kite-flying outing in his own childhood with his father in the County Dublin seaside towns of Skerries or Rush.[2] In any case, during early promotional appearances Bono emphasized the song could be about letting go of any kind of relationship.[3]
The music to “Kite” was equally evocative, with the chorus featuring an emphatic wail from Bono set against The Edge’s churning guitar lines.
A popular number among fans, the song had its origins in a kite-flying outing on Killiney Hill overlooking Dublin Bay that Bono attempted with his daughters.[1] The outing went quickly awry when the kite crashed and one of the girls asked to go home and play with a video game. [2] So the song was at first written with Bono’s daughters in mind, or more generally, about a kite as a metaphor for someone or something escaping one’s realm of control; the song is, more or less, about Bono realizing a day will come when his daughters will “no longer need him.” The Edge helped out on the words, and felt that the lyric was actually aimed in the opposite direction, about Bono’s emotionally-reserved father: “He couldn’t see it, but I could.” Then while singing it, Bono recalled a similarly ill-fated kite-flying outing in his own childhood with his father in the County Dublin seaside towns of Skerries or Rush.[2] In any case, during early promotional appearances Bono emphasized the song could be about letting go of any kind of relationship.[3]
The music to “Kite” was equally evocative, with the chorus featuring an emphatic wail from Bono set against The Edge’s churning guitar lines.
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oneroomcity wrote:
one of my top favourite u2 songs of all fucking time.
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iColdplay wrote:
Wunderschönes Lied!
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seanbonner1 wrote:
Best song on the album.
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badlife wrote:
Freedom！
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uh_oh_jlm wrote:
ummmmm no disrespect to U2 but why did they show up on my classic rock playlist??
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Banba777 wrote:
ღღღ if this song would be a man, i have to marry him ..without doubts ღღღ
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Banba777 wrote:
everlasting !!!!!! my 11.1111 song can only be this one ... thx Bono for this awesome sound ..reall in love ....<3333
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morle13 wrote:
Einfach genial!!!!
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Edenhorn wrote:
<3
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Banba777 wrote:
I AM IN LOVE !!!!!!!!!!!! ...with this song .... love at first sound !
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miamigirlie wrote:
"tears rolling down my eyes - my heart breaking ... since losing my dad.. it's reeeaaallly difficult to listen to this song --- intenseeeeee .... I MISS U DAD !!!!!!!!! """
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Ivee75 wrote:
Cuando el corazon no deja de sentir... solo nos queda la musica. Quien dira? Se que no es el fin.
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babydoll7 wrote:
<3
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EdgeLike wrote:
WHo's to say where the wind will take you?
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mrs_solis wrote:
coooool
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follower8 wrote:
posibly best u2 song.... :D
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sadirvan wrote:
www.dokufest.com
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dmuchawiec wrote:
mmmmm. again and again...
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hassu1705 wrote:
cool!!!!
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