Inspiration, Writing, and Recording
The idea for the song came from a kite-flying outing on Killiney Hill overlooking Dublin Bay that Bono attempted with his daughters. The outing went quickly awry when the kite crashed and one of the girls asked to go home and play a video game. Guitarist The Edge assisted Bono in writing the lyrics and felt that they were actually about Bono's emotionally-reserved father, Bob Hewson, who was dying of cancer at the time: " couldn't see it, but I could." Bono recalled a similarly ill-fated kite-flying outing in his own childhood with his father in the County Dublin seaside towns of Skerries or Rush.
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