“The subtext”, Bono says, looking at the lyric sheet, “is everything. Isn’t it?”. He can’t resist a wry chuckle, looking at the rough type from the inner sleeve of Boy.
“Those lyrics are wrong,” he says looking at the text of one track. “That’s wrong,” he repeats, scrawling the correct lyric to another. “Twilight”, he leaves untouched.
The song first surfaced on the B-side of their second single “Another day” , released through CBS in Ireland. Legend has it that it was recorded in just 5 minutes and suffered as a consequence. But on Boy it comes through strongly, a small epic that’s loaded with sexual ambiguities.
In Dublin parlance of 70′s , “the old man” was the commonly used term for your father. But in Britain and Usa, where gays had begun to express their identity in much more overt ways, this song seemed to have been written for them.
Click here to download the guitar tab for Twilight
I look into his eyes
They’re closed but I see something
A teacher told me why
I laugh when old men cry
My body grows and grows
It frightens me you know
The old man tried to walk me home
I thought he should have known
Twilight…
Twilight, lost my way
Twilight, can’t find my way
In the shadow boy meets man
In the shadow boy meets man
In the shadow boy meets man
In the shadow boy meets man
I’m running in the rain
I’m caught in a late night play
It’s all; it’s everything
I’m soaking through the skin
Twilight…darkened day
Twilight…lost my way
Twilight…night and day
Twilight…can’t find my way
Can’t find your way
Can’t find my way
Can’t find your way
Twilight…darkened day
Twilight…lost my way
Twilight…night and day
Twilight…can’t find my way
In the shadow boy meets man
In the shadow boy meets man
In the shadow boy meets man
In the shadow boy meets man
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