When u2 formed in Mount Temple School, Bono had already started a relationship with Ali that would result in a marriage. But the path of true love didn’t always run smoothly.
They split for a short time and Bono -as ever, restless and hungry for experience – had a short fling with another schoolmate. “Its definitely about sex, that” Bono agrees. “I think the title is in irish because the girl it was about was a sort of a “Gaeilge” type of person. What happened was that Ali and myself had split up for a minute and i just ran off with somebody and felt guilty about that.
In fact “An cat dubh” was an important for its muted, evocative instrumental passages as for its -again- sexually ambiguous text.
Click here to download the guitar tab for An cat dubh
Say goodnight
She waits for me to
Put out the light
Lay there still
She waits to break my will
Yes, if I know the truth about you…
And in the daylight
A blackbird makes a violent sight
And when she is done
She sleeps beside the wild
Yes, If I know the truth about you…
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