It’s been said that this song is also about “The Fly” but from a more sympathetic perspective. About a man who has gone out on the town and is stumbling home in the wee hours, mystified at where he’d been and high on drunk ambition.
U2 felt they were under a microscope in Dublin, so through the winter of 1986, they decided to stay in Los Angeles. While there, they sampled the delights and the drinks of the town. They acted completely out of character, frequenting bars and discovered a looseness musically and personally that ended up shaping what Larry Mullen called, “An Irish drinking song”.
Click here to download the guitar tab for Tryin To Throw Your Arms Around The World
6.00 in the morning
You’re the last to hear the warning
You’ve been trying to throw your arms around the world
You’ve been falling off the sidewalk
Your lips move but you can’t talk
Tryin’ to throw your arms around the world
I’m gonna run to you… run to you… be still
I’m gonna run to you… run to you… woman I will
Sunrise like a nosebleed
Your head hurts and you can’t breathe
You been tryin’ to throw you arms around the world
How far you gonna go
Before you lose your way back home?
You’ve been trying to throw your arms around the world
I’m gonna run to you… run to you… woman be still
I’m gonna run to you… run to you… woman I will
I dreamed that I saw Dali with a supermarket trolley
He was trying to throw his arms around a girl
He took an open top beetle
Through the eye of a needle
He was tryin’ to throw his arms around the world
I’m gonna run to you… run to you… woman be still
I’m gonna run to you… run to you… woman I will
Nothin’ much to say I guess
Just the same as all the rest
Been trying to throw your arms around the world
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
When you’re tryin’ to throw your arms around the world
I’m gonna run to you… run to you
I’m gonna run to you… run to you
I’m gonna run to you… run to you
Woman be still… woman be still
Be still… woman be still
Woman I will
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