Roam,
The phone is where I live till I get home
And when the doorbell rings
You tell me that I have a key
I ask you, how you know it's me?
The road, no road without a turn
And if there was, the road would be too long
What keeps us standing in this view
Is the view that we can be brand new
The landlady takes me up in the air
I go, I go where I would not dare
The landlady shows me the stars up there
I'm weightless, weightless when she is there
And I'll never know
Never know what starving poets meant
Cause when I was broke
It was you that always paid the rent
Space, her place is where I found my parking space
And when I'm losing ground
You know she gives it back to me
She whispers "Don't do, just be"
The landlady takes me up in the air
I go, I go where I would not dare
The landlady shows me the stars up there
I'm weightless, weightless when she is there
And I'll never know
Never know what starving poets meant
Cause when I was broke
It was you that always paid the rent
Every wave that broke me
Every song that wrote me
Every dawn that woke me
Was to get me home to you, see
Every soul that left me
Every heart that kept me
The strangers that protected me
To bring me back to you
Every magic potion
Every false emotion
How unswerving our devotion
To the lies we know are almost true
Every sweet confusion
Every grand illusion
I will win and call it losing
If the prize is not for you
The phone is where I live till I get home
And when the doorbell rings
You tell me that I have a key
I ask you, how you know it's me?
And if there was, the road would be too long
What keeps us standing in this view
Is the view that we can be brand new
I go, I go where I would not dare
The landlady shows me the stars up there
I'm weightless, weightless when she is there
And I'll never know
Never know what starving poets meant
Cause when I was broke
It was you that always paid the rent
And when I'm losing ground
You know she gives it back to me
She whispers "Don't do, just be"
The landlady takes me up in the air
I go, I go where I would not dare
The landlady shows me the stars up there
I'm weightless, weightless when she is there
And I'll never know
Never know what starving poets meant
Cause when I was broke
It was you that always paid the rent
Every song that wrote me
Every dawn that woke me
Was to get me home to you, see
Every soul that left me
Every heart that kept me
The strangers that protected me
To bring me back to you
Every false emotion
How unswerving our devotion
To the lies we know are almost true
Every grand illusion
I will win and call it losing
If the prize is not for you
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Boy, he sure loves his landlady!
But in seriousness, I think this song is about the Holy Spirit. In Bono's religious songs, the Holy Spirit is always in the character of a female. See Grace and The First Time.
It's a beautiful poem about all the ways the Holy Spirit brings peace, forgiveness, and guidance.
I think its about his relationship with his wife Ali,
They met as kids at school and have been together since,
He thanks her for her support in times of creative weakness,
She is to me part of the huge U2 success over the years by providing a home to come home to, away from the band