OOTS opening keyboards

[Paul Vox]

I've heard quite a few people ragging on the sound of the keyboards...like why did they choose such a lame tone...but it seems to me that it is supposed to be like a child's lullabye sound. The first lyric is "Baby, slow down..." Bono, is speaking to edge's daughter, right. Then, quickly, the pace quickens, and the strings come in...I imagine the child begins to grow up...quickly, the lyric becomes more urgent. etc.

I imagine this song might have started out as a bedtime lullabye for some of the little Hewsons.

 

[ImOuttaControl]

Love the keyboards...

The song is not about the Edge's daughter, as some people have been saying....
There is a 60 minutes interview with Bono from 2001 where Bono starts singing the "Everywhere you go you shout it, you don't have to..." part of the song and says it was written about his children.

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

This song gives me a very unfinished vibe.