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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.
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  • PostSong

    I wonder what's gonna happen to you, You wonder what has happened to me..*

    10 days ago

  • Basisti94

    Best U2 song out there

    last month

  • caiotribbiani

    perfeita! szs

    October 2011

  • DerpyKong

    The guitar in the intro was awesome...

    September 2011

  • Dark99

    I forgot about this song til I watched U2 Go Home. Great song.

    August 2011

  • jonny_alpha

    A modern U2 classic for sure.

    July 2011

  • sMeRvie

    Ufff, so nice!

    June 2011

  • MaryForsberg

    I love BONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    January 2011

  • MAROON3D

    I will always remember my love, when I listened to this song...

    December 2010

  • Filomenaa

    Last of the rock stars... sad. But true. [2]

    December 2010

  • rafaeloliv4

    Best song of the album;.

    October 2010

  • Andre_DA

    Last of the rock stars... sad. But true.

    July 2010

  • The80sFan

    One of my very favorite U2 songs. Just incredible lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation. Love it!

    June 2010

  • Indranni

    I love this song!!!

    April 2010

  • PowerHour24

    'Last of the rockstars', that's for sure.

    April 2010

  • Cologne_Fly

    just listen to the london-performance 2001/08/21 ... incredible

    March 2010

  • Angell-Dyk

    One of my favorite U2 songs! ♥

    February 2010

  • vrobles

    Increíble, increíble canción. Monumento al porque aún sigo escuchando U2 ocasionalmente.

    February 2010

  • Anderson_ma

    so good!

    February 2010

  • vh16

    one of the best songs from their best album :)

    January 2010
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