“Out of control” is about waking up on on your 18th birthday and realizing you’re 18 years old and the 2 most important decisions in your life have nothing to do with you -being born and dying-”, Bono said.
“The song is written from the child’s point of view and it’s about a vicious circle. He becomes a delinquent but the psychologist says “It’s in his childhood.” No matter what he does, it can’t be because he wants to – it’s always because of what went before, and there’s no decision in anything.
Then again, that’s a slightly spiritual – The question what’s happening if you have no freedom?- “It was a feeling that recurred: he was haunted by the sense that the whole crazy business of human life, and human reproduction in particular, was out of control. The song was an attempt to come to grips in an adolescent but nonetheless urgent way with the reality of existensial angst”.
Remembering now in tranquillity, Bono places the song in the context of his own psychological traumas at the time.
Click here to download the guitar tab for Out of control
Monday morning
Eighteen years of dawning
I say how long
You say how long
It was one dull morning
Woke the world with bawling
I was so sad (so sad)
They were so glad
I had the feeling
I was out of control
I had the feeling
It was out of control
Boys and Girls
Go to the school and girls
They make children
Not like this one
I had the feeling
It was out of control
I had the feeling
It was out of control
I fought fate
There’s blood on the garden gate
The man said childhood
It’s in his childhood
One day I’ll die
The choice will not be mine
Will it be too late
You can’t fight fate
I had the feeling
It was out of control
I had the feeling
I was out of control
Out of control, ooh ooh…..
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