I Will Follow

In the Rolling Stone interview Bono says that this song is about agape love. The Greek apparantly have three words for love: agape love is unconditional love, like the love for God. There was also erotic love and friendly love (can't remember the exact words for those ones). The interviewer then asked Bono if this song was about his mother and he agreed, but said that it could also be about God.

Yeah, i am with myhero78. From what i have read Bono was planning on writing a song about a Mothers unding love for her son... but it ended up being much more about a sons love for his mother... or somthing like that.

i know that U2 is really religious, but i think its unfair to their genius to tie all their lyrics to god....why does everything have to be about religion....i think the mother/son theory is much better

deep huh?

this is one of my favourite u2 songs. I love the bit about 'your eyes..'

i will follow is a theme and words ripped directly from the movie "BETWEEN TWO WORLDS", watch the movie and be amazed...earlier entry by myhero78 confirms this its an old black and white movie about a man and his mother

I think its just about a child love for their mother,probably written only a few years after his mothers death.

and probably Bonos growth when his mother died.

I love his voice, and i love how the drums sound.......feel like they have a lot of authority.

I wholeheartedly agree with love2zworld here. Especially in U2's beginning, and even now, their religious views and standpoints were evident in many of their songs, but it is unfair to assume that just because U2 has a strong lyrical connection with religion, that each song is directly connected to God. Sheesh, even if Bono WANTED to write an erotic love song purely about man and woman sex, most people would just naturally assume it was somehow about God! It's a little unnerving.

No, I think "I Will Follow", like many early U2 songs, is about Bono's personal life and the loss of his mother. He speaks of a boy trying to be a man and a mother sort of showing him the way. In this song, he is saying he will follow his mother.

I think in the beginning, Bono is writing about how he may have been a little selfish, sort of turning a blind eye to his mom when she needed him, and he's saying he could not see, at that time, why it was so important that he pay attention and learn from her when he had the chance. Now, the words talk about following her. The line "I see you when I go in there" sounds as if he's referring to seeing her again when he gets to heaven or the afterlife. Sort of like she will be the one to lead him when its his time to go and he will follow her.