Iris (Hold Me Close)
by U2

Album: Songs of Innocence (2014)
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  • The star that gives us light
    Has been gone a while
    But it's not an illusion
    The ache in my heart
    Is so much a part of who I am

    Something in your eyes
    Took a thousand years to get here
    Something in your eyes
    Took a thousand years, a thousand years

    Hold me close
    Hold me close and don't let me go
    Hold me close
    Like I'm someone that you might know
    Hold me close
    The darkness just lets us see
    Who we are
    I've got your life inside of me

    Iris, Iris

    Once we are born
    We begin to forget
    The very reason we came
    But you I'm sure I've met
    Long before the night
    The stars went out
    We're meeting up again

    Hold me close
    Hold me close and don't let me go
    Hold me close
    Like I'm someone that you might know
    Hold me close
    The darkness just lets us see
    Who we are
    I've got your life inside of me

    Iris, Iris

    The stars are bright
    But do they know
    The universe is beautiful but cold
    You took me by the hand
    I thought that I was leading you
    But it was you made me your man
    Machine, I dream where you are
    Iris standing in the hall
    She tells me I can do it all
    Iris wakes to my nightmares
    Don't fear the world
    It isn't there

    Iris playing on the Strand
    She buries the boy beneath the sand
    Iris says that I will be the death of her
    It was not me

    Iris, Iris
    She said free yourself to be yourself
    If only you could see yourself
    Free yourself to be yourself
    If only you could see Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, LARRY MULLEN, PAUL DAVID HEWSON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • George from Pennsylvaniawow, I was pretty far off with a possible analysis I had of this song. :-) lol. unless there is some double entendre in it. I was probably influenced by the Apple / u2 marketing snafu at the apple keynote where u2 may have performed? when the digital album was included for free with the new IOS. I had a theory that was loosely based on an iPhone as a 'Black mirror' (like the Netflix series) type of technology projection and how the smart phone & Tik Tok generations entire lives are being captured on their phones. IRIS is also SIRI in reverse which may seem like a stretch but read the lyrics going with the 'black mirror' theory.
  • George from Pennsylvaniawow, I was pretty far off with a possible analysis I had of this song. lol. unless there is some double entendre in it. I was probably influenced by the Apple / u2 marketing snafu at the apple keynote where u2 may have performed? when the album was included for free with the new IOS. I had a theory that was loosely based on an iPhone as a 'Black mirror' (like the Netflix series) type of technology projection.
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