Kite (Song) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kite" is the fifth track from U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. 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. So the song was at first written with Bono's daughters in mind, or more generally, about a kite as a metaphor for someone or something escaping one's realm of control; the song is, more or less, about Bono realizing a day will come when his daughters will "no longer need him