On one level, this song is a love song and it works- capturing feelings most people in significant relationships have felt one time or another, but beneath that lies a spiritual aspect twisted with eroticism, surrender, doubt, guilt and stripping of ego. Bono hates being specific about personal songs. “In ‘With or Without You’, when it says ‘And you give yourself away’, everybody in the group knows what it means,” Bono said. “It’s about how I feel at times- exposed. And the rest of the group feels that I give myself away.”
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See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you
With or without you
With or without you
Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I’m waiting for you
With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
My hands are tied
My body bruised, she’s got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
With or without you
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