Hawk269
Acrobat
"All I Want Is You"
Like a whisper, it enters slowly, quietly, just like With or Without You. Short, sweet strums of Edge's guitar breaks a cold silence. Then Bono...he sounds like he is in a quiet room with a slight echo, but it feels like it is just you speaking to the one you are thinking about, and there is no one else around. It is both a prayer and a confession of love. It comes from a place of total sincerity and complete honesty.
He speaks about all the things that she *says* she wants and she *says* she will give him. She wants diamonds and her story to remain untold...probably a past that she does not want to speak of. He speaks of all these promises she is supposedly making, giving him eyes in a moon of blindness and a river in a time of dryness. All these promises that she is carrying with her, but will break in the end. But there is just one thing that matters to him in the end, something greater than all the *things* and empty promises in life. He is in a space, or state of mind where the only thing that matters is that he wants her, and only her. Everything else holds no meaning for him.
He wrote a song called "Be There" in the early 80's which said many of the same things. In that song he told her that she doesn't have to be anything other than herself for him. This time, though, it is like he has found the words to tell her how he feels in the most simple, beautiful way.
"All I Want Is You"
my interpretation of the song.
-AJ
Like a whisper, it enters slowly, quietly, just like With or Without You. Short, sweet strums of Edge's guitar breaks a cold silence. Then Bono...he sounds like he is in a quiet room with a slight echo, but it feels like it is just you speaking to the one you are thinking about, and there is no one else around. It is both a prayer and a confession of love. It comes from a place of total sincerity and complete honesty.
He speaks about all the things that she *says* she wants and she *says* she will give him. She wants diamonds and her story to remain untold...probably a past that she does not want to speak of. He speaks of all these promises she is supposedly making, giving him eyes in a moon of blindness and a river in a time of dryness. All these promises that she is carrying with her, but will break in the end. But there is just one thing that matters to him in the end, something greater than all the *things* and empty promises in life. He is in a space, or state of mind where the only thing that matters is that he wants her, and only her. Everything else holds no meaning for him.
He wrote a song called "Be There" in the early 80's which said many of the same things. In that song he told her that she doesn't have to be anything other than herself for him. This time, though, it is like he has found the words to tell her how he feels in the most simple, beautiful way.
"All I Want Is You"
my interpretation of the song.
-AJ
