I've listen to this song on repeat a good few times now and thought about it more over the last six days. Here's more thoughts:
It's like he's speaking from the view of a past friend, colleague, mentor, class mate, a fellow jammer etc to a celebrity and the person is saying to the celebrity>>you've been in the spotlight for years and you never mentioned or thought about me once. It's like I'm invisible>> as in taken for granted, used, discarded as a person in the celebrity's life;at least 'almost completely forgotten'
I've also heard/read Bono speak of 'wasted potential', how often have we heard him praise his father's fine operatic voice and yet he didn't record it. Bono looks at the world - take Africa years ago for instance and he saw these royal people and they were dying and what he saw was unnecessary wasted potential when the solution was so readily solvable from with the human talent pool. I think that could be one interpretation of 'No. I won't be my father's son' I will develop my potential to the highest level and higher. - And yet he is is his father's son! - it's undeniable. All the innate talents and early parenting and beyond came from his creator through his parents, his mother and his father - so you see, like happens so often, his mother and father succeeded in several dimensions, one of which was through their son. His son developed the interests and passions of his parents, to sing and to care. Think of Joel Osteen, Paul McCartney, George Bush, Brian Lennihan, King Abdullah, JFK, The Queen, Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus, Indira Gandhi and Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Robbins, Richard Branson, among several billions who have went on expand on what their parents achieved. We all do it in our own way: it's called progress, it's the nature of human beings since we were banished from the garden, as Christians believe.
"I'm more than you let me be"
could be about the shout back up to a :
a government not letting her people flourish
management not building their employees
parents not building up their children on all levels
...
a public not letting a public figure be and grow beyond a point or phase
an audience not letting an actor act a new / opposite of typecast
fans not letting their heroes do new stuff
it's about empowerment, be it combating racism, xenophobia, superstition and ignorance or fearful greed etc
...
a public not letting a public figure be and grow beyond a point or phase
an audience not letting an actor act a new / opposite of typecast
fans not letting their heroes do new stuff
it's about empowerment, be it combating racism, xenophobia, superstition and ignorance or fearful greed etc
I've listen to this song on repeat a good few times now and thought about it more over the last six days. Here's more thoughts:
It's like he's speaking from the view of a past friend, colleague, mentor, class mate, a fellow jammer etc to a celebrity and the person is saying to the celebrity>>you've been in the spotlight for years and you never mentioned or thought about me once. It's like I'm invisible>> as in taken for granted, used, discarded as a person in the celebrity's life;at least 'almost completely forgotten'
I've also heard/read Bono speak of 'wasted potential', how often have we heard him praise his father's fine operatic voice and yet he didn't record it. Bono looks at the world - take Africa years ago for instance and he saw these royal people and they were dying and what he saw was unnecessary wasted potential when the solution was so readily solvable from with the human talent pool. I think that could be one interpretation of 'No. I won't be my father's son' I will develop my potential to the highest level and higher. - And yet he is is his father's son! - it's undeniable. All the innate talents and early parenting and beyond came from his creator through his parents, his mother and his father - so you see, like happens so often, his mother and father succeeded in several dimensions, one of which was through their son. His son developed the interests and passions of his parents, to sing and to care. Think of Joel Osteen, Paul McCartney, George Bush, Brian Lennihan, King Abdullah, JFK, The Queen, Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus, Indira Gandhi and Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Robbins, Richard Branson, among several billions who have went on expand on what their parents achieved. We all do it in our own way: it's called progress, it's the nature of human beings since we were banished from the garden, as Christians believe.
"I'm more than you let me be" could be about the shout back up to a : a government not letting her people flourish management not building their employees parents not building up their children on all levels
... a public not letting a public figure be and grow beyond a point or phase an audience not letting an actor act a new / opposite of typecast fans not letting their heroes do new stuff it's about empowerment, be it combating racism, xenophobia, superstition and ignorance or fearful greed etc
... a public not letting a public figure be and grow beyond a point or phase an audience not letting an actor act a new / opposite of typecast fans not letting their heroes do new stuff it's about empowerment, be it combating racism, xenophobia, superstition and ignorance or fearful greed etc