You take a stranger by the hand
A man who doesn't understand
His wildest dreams
You walk across the dirty sand
And offer him an ocean
Of what he's never seen
Maybe I was blind
Or I, I might have closed my eyes
Maybe I was dumb
But what I forgot to say
If you didn't know
Is never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go
You run from love and don't believe
Unless it catches you by the heel
That even then, you struggle
From red I learned to cross the strand
Your footprints still there in the sand
Everything else, washed away
I may not be alone
Oh I, I may have found my home
I may have lost my way
But what I forgot to say
If you didn't know
Is never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go
Beautifully written words indeed. The song appears to be almost autobiographical in nature...with many references to movement on Bono's part again. He appears to be running from a lover, or maybe even from the broken dreams of a mother taken from a son so young, a yearning in his heart for love to never let him go. A reminder of the longing in one's heart to stand still and feel love's embrace, but difficult when a still stronger yearning in this same heart longs to be in the slipstream of life that takes him away from the very love he seeks.
Chris