Haha, it's funny. The masturbation thing seems too plausible to me now. Who'da thunk it?!
I read somewhere a long time ago that Bono had said this song was about his love of comic books as a young child/teenager and how he often read comics and novels and used TV to sort of escape reality. It certainly fits if you think about all the references U2 songs have made to books and film in their songs...Dorian Gray, Lord of the Flies, etc.
I don't know if that interpretation is true, but it seems pretty fitting.
Haha, it's funny. The masturbation thing seems too plausible to me now. Who'da thunk it?!
I read somewhere a long time ago that Bono had said this song was about his love of comic books as a young child/teenager and how he often read comics and novels and used TV to sort of escape reality. It certainly fits if you think about all the references U2 songs have made to books and film in their songs...Dorian Gray, Lord of the Flies, etc.
I don't know if that interpretation is true, but it seems pretty fitting.