Originally posted by ladygodiva
Sorry Ali, you might be right and I'm wrong but SUICIDE thoughts Bono?? I really don't think so. But as I have said I may be corrected.
Originally posted by Ali709[..]
As I said, it's NOT Bono...he is describing suicide thoughts that some celebrities have.
Originally posted by yeah[..]
I think it might be Bono. The fact that he writes a song about suicide doesn't mean that he really thought about it. It's just hypothetical...
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Originally posted by Ali709[..]
well, if he's writing it about himself, hypothetically thinking of suicide, then it's like him writing it about some celebrity who's thinking of suicide. .
Originally posted by yeah[..]
You certainly have a point there.
I was just surprised that people seem to mask out that Bono might be depressed sometimes, too. It's just human to have these "what if thoughts", so I wouldn't exclude the possibility that Gone is some kind of this.
But that's up to everyone's personal interpretation of course.
Originally posted by Ali709[..]
You're right, people do that. I do consider the possibility, but I just thought even if Bono has had these thoughts (and I'm pretty sure he had them), it would have been when he was much younger...the early years, when the success would hit him...or maybe the JT days. He says in U2ByU2 that the song is about this "young man who is a rockstar" (or something similar) ...
It is Bono...but not the 96-97 Bono of Pop, it's a much younger Bono.
Originally posted by Ali709Nice posts guys.
My interpretation would be exactly the same as Yeah's, except for the last verse:
You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy / (Gone)
Then you learn to like the way it feels / (Gone)
You hurt yourself you hurt your lover / (Gone)
Then you discover
What you thought was freedom is just greed / (Gone)
I'm sure the last lines are describing suicide (Bono said so himself...somewhere), so I'll interpret the first lines in that context as well:
The whole analysis Yeah mentioned in the song, these are thoughts that "the celebrity" is having (It's not Bono really, he wrote it about any celebrity who's like that), each verse is a step in his thoughts that are leading him to suicide...he keeps thinking about them, they make him feel dizzy but after a while he likes to keep thinking about them, makes him feel pure maybe.
So, he decides to suicide. He hurts himself, and his suicide, hurts his lover. Then (this is actually after death!) he discovers (a very nice word to use here BTW!) that what he thought was freedom (freedom to take his own life), was actually greed (he just wants to break free from the ideas and doesn't think about others and how they feel after he's gone).
Originally posted by JohnnyVOXX[..]
Ali,
Amazing interpretation!!! very good!!
I don't quite agree with you in some points... I don't feel this song as a "suicidal" song... I don't know why, but seems it is.... I'll have to take a closer look, now that I have a different point of view...
cheers!! and thanks!!
Originally posted by wtshnnfb01I beg of you, can we hit ASOH or Surrender or some other old song next?
