With or without you (U2): lyrics, translation and analysis

To music With or without you It is the two greatest successes of all times of the Irish band U2.

Released on March 1, 1987, a song on the face of the album The Joshua Tree.

Letter e analyze

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 ohoo
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

A troubled love song written by vocalist Bono translated this particularly troublesome moment of life. At the same time that it reaches an ever greater succession, no universe gives music, his personal life will gradually become more pressured hairs compromised of the agenda.

Embora dealt with a relatively particular situation of a rising musician, the lyrics also play people like More conventional careers, which are seen in relationships you install and that oscillate very much like decorrer do tempo.

O eu-lrico da song demonstrates at the beginning of the lyrics wait for the beloved and resist the reviravoltas da relação:

See the stone set in your eyes (Vejo uma frieza em seus olhos)
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you (I hope for you)

Or a common place you will find a letter that has come and gone from a romantic house, not so much, let me say that With ot withou you It is about a religious song.

Vale lembrar o berço onde nasceu Bono (or country was Catholic and also Protestant). For this reason, the family decided, through consensus, that the first filho would be beaten at the Anglican Church, and the second at the Catholic Church. Bono, or second filho, was beaten as he was supposed to be at the Catholic Church.

There are two elements that I face to believe that it is about a music with references to Christ and to expressing the present in the second verse (“See the thorn twist in your side” / Vejo os espinhos twisted ao seu side). In this image you can put the coroa de espinhos posta in Jesus Christ during his crucifixion. Outra reference will appear in the fifth verse.

O eu-lrico continues with his saga:

Sleight of hand and twist of fate (Num passe de magica e num deviation of destination)
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait... without you (E eu I hope... sem você)

Já agora he portrays her as painful to wait for her loved one, as distressing or a time that passes sozinho em meio à solidão. A indecision and described as a distressing period gives life to the subject.

Here are verses about another stretch where the custom-is a religious reference: expressing "bed of nails" would possibly be a reference to the cross of Jesus Christ.

A song repeats at all times the phrase "With or without you" (Com ou sem você) teasing that being together is an escort.

Finally, a moment of apparent tranquility appears, or eu-lyrical, and the beloved finds herself and seems to have overcome the difficult times.

For or little subject who narrates, meanwhile, the delivery of the beloved not enough, the desires more:

Through the storm we reach the shore (Pela tempestade nós chegamos ao litoral)
You give it all but I want more (Você dá tudo mas eu quero mais)
And I'm waiting for you

A conciliação pos turbulência seems to be, contudo, provisional. A beloved for a brief moment surrenders himself and decides to face the challenges of a relationship to two, but all will go to a number of olhos.

Ela, finally, give up, leave or loved behind, exhausted from so much tempting:

My hands are tied
My body bruised, she's got me with (Meu corpo ferido, ela me deixou com)
Nothing to win
and nothing left to lose

A letter of With or withoutyou It deals with two encounters and disagreements of a romantic house, for that reason its composition is timeless, it never loses its validity. In the composition created by Bono, we see a nuanced eu-lyric that is not reciprocated (or even less, it is not reciprocated as expected) and suffers from the consequences caused by the relationship.

Racks of criação

The music lasts four minutes and fifty six seconds long and the lyrics by Bono's authorship. Inspiration arose when the vocalist needed to reconcile Rotina from astro do rock always in turn as a domestic everyday as a husband.

Bonus has never placed a man on the massa to work on that song a few times, but he has never been happy as a result. The other members of the band (or guitarist The Edge, or bassist Adam Clayton and or drummer Larry Mullen Jr.) will continue to pressure him to fazer alterações até achieve a final result satisfying. Finally, the singer himself appreciated the conquest:

It was clear that music was a little special. It is all built in a crescendo.

A music opens e desce e depois volta. Everyone in the room was commenting "Ok, Edge, let's see if you can unleash some fireworks here." Three notes - pause. I want to say, psychotic contention, and isso é o que seu coração, no o chorus.

With or without you It was released on March 1, 1987 and was subsequently sheltered on the album. The Joshua Tree. O producer Daniel Lanois commented respectfully:

In order to "With or without you"We do not have the rhythm of the chords, then we are testing Infinite Guitar, by Michael Brook. I asked for Edge to play some coisa, the fez dois takes and esses are only the only ones in the final mix of "With or Without You". Belos are stratospheric.

Bonus also observed in respect of taxation:

Olhando going back, I managed to see that it was different from all over the world. It was loucura... Something like 'With or Without You', is a song that sounds quite strange... chega in a sorrateira way, and with this stranger guitar line that is played at the Infinite Guitar do Edge. Foi uma gravação bem incomum.

At present With or without you It is the 132nd music ranking of 500 melhores of all kinds of music, second to Rolling Stone magazine.

Translation

Vejo uma frieza em seus olhos
Vejo you twisted thorns to or to your side
I wait for you
Number of magic passes and number of destination deviation
In a bed of pregos she made me wait
I hope... sem você
Com ou sem você
Com ou sem você
Crossing storms from us to the littoral
You give me more than I want more
I am waiting for you
Com ou sem você
Com ou sem você
Eu não posso viver
Com ou sem você
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
Minhas more are tied
Meu corpo ferido, ela me deixou com
Nothing to win
And nothing else to lose
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
E você surrenders
Com ou sem você
Com ou sem você
Eu não posso viver
Com ou sem você

The video to follow was recorded during Turnê Rattle And Hum, in a show held in 1988.

Album The Joshua Tree

With or without you é a third faixa do album The Joshua Tree, raised between November 1985 and January 1987 and released on March 9, 1987.

O more known album of the group was or fifth of the career of the Irish band. Recorded by Island Records, a coletânea was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, as we have previously worked on U2 The Unforgettable Fire (1984).

The Joshua Tree I was a member of the carreira, I have been established in number 1 in 22 countries and have given more than 17 thousand of Reais sent direct authors for the members of the band.

The album recorded during nine weeks no topo da Bilboard and sold about 25 thousand of exemplaries.

Além from With or without you, a coletânea brings together two other memorable events: Where the Streets Have no Name and I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for.

Faixas do album:

1. Where The Streets Have No Name

2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

3. With or without you

4. Bullet The Blue Sky

5. Running To Stand Still

6. Red Hill Mining Town

7. In God's Country

8. Trip Through Your Wires

9. One Tree Hill

10. Exit

11. Mothers Of The Disappeared

Conheça also

• Music Comfortably numb, by Pink Floyd
• Music Wake Me Up When September Ends, do Green Day
• Music Another brick in the wall, by Pink Floyd
• Alive Music by Pearl Jam

Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).