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Found this interpretation on the U2MoL site...
http://hem.bredband.net/steverud/U2MoL/ATYCLB/kite.html
I thought it was about his father. But if it's really about the future of the band, it seems to kinda make sense now.
What do you guys think?
I believe the lyrics of this song refer to the band itself. The kite symbolyzes the future of the band and the new album. 'whose to say where the wind will take you, whose to say what it is will break you' etc. At the end, he describes himself as 'the last of the rock stars when hip hop drove the big cars'. It is quite obvious that the main concern here is what this new album will bring about in terms of success to u2. Will it be the downfall or the uprising of the u2 empire? or rather, whose to know where the wind will take you?
- James Abu-Mrad james.abu-mrad@wfinet.com ( 9:th of April 2001)
Bono once said that he can't see any future of U2 after the next album. I think that this song describes his feelings of this album and the future. And if they split up he gives us the lines: "I want you to know, That you don't need me anymore." and also: "I know that this is not goodbye." The music is still there if they quit. At the end he asks himself "Did I waste it?" Was it worth the effort to get where he is today? "Not so much I couldn't taste it, Life should be fragrant." Although the huge succes of their music and what that means, he has been able to enjoy life. It has not been rubish all the time. Maybe, this song is: "Thank you and goodbye" or "Where should we go now?".
- Karl Otto Emanuelsson, otto@dublin.com (29:th of April 2001)
http://hem.bredband.net/steverud/U2MoL/ATYCLB/kite.html
I thought it was about his father. But if it's really about the future of the band, it seems to kinda make sense now.
What do you guys think?