U2: Invisible Meaning

Song Released: 2014

Invisible Lyrics

It’s like the room just cleared of smoke
I didn’t even want the heart you broke
It’s yours to keep
You just might need one

I finally found my real name
I won’t be me when you see me again
No, I won’t be my father’s son

I’m more than...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 16th 2019 !⃝

   It was 25-10-2016. The CD was brought to my house. I was that evening Alone at home, Honny I?am here.
   I listen on the couch and when the cd was ended, the Music started with Invisable after 6.25 min. I was out of controle again and my hole body was warm.
   
   Invisable was not more Invisable. I wrote this on the U2 site and We? were connected, the invisable captain and I. It was an healing Son g for Me2.
   
   Love and light my way U2 to VertiGo. We?
   
   Detlev Lassche.
   
   Miss You Sugar. ... ....
2. anonymous

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   Jan 9th 2016 !⃝

   This song can be interpreted in a number of ways. It is about bono and his relationship with his father. It's about his father having talents but not pursuing them. There may be different reasons but I suspect with the passing of his mother, his father was not at all interested and likely jealous of his son actually pursuing the singing.
   
   I take the whole song as him proving to his father that he could overcome the challenges their family had and be successful. He took a lot of angst and heartache and channeled it into positive energy. His father likely told him to go get a job. Bono obviously had big ideas and this likely fueled the fire in their relationship.
   
   The versuses about us versus them relates to his accepting how his father was and making peace with him later in life prior to his death. And yes, this same verse can be interpreted as that we are all equal even regardless of how successful we have become in life. While bono is very confidenty, he believes that he should not be , put on a pedestal because of his position and notoriety in society. The success and longevity of the band is directly related to their humbleness. Every stage character he plays is making fun of himself and the silliness of what he is doing in life.' The philanthropic pursuits are a reflection of his desire to be "more than you know" which is bono speaking to his father. He knows that doing these things balances his life and keeps him from becoming the megalomaniac that he depicts in some of his characters.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 23rd 2014 !⃝

   the first time i listened, it was almost as if it was being sung to God, declaring that God has held a person back. Of course, this doesn't really fit the general concept of U2 and Bono's religiousness. So i would have to fall back on a simple meaning of a person who's heart was broken by someone, and trying to say that he is becoming more then what he was allowed to be while in the relationship. The idea that who he really was, so long as he was in that relationship, the real him was invisible. But now, he is trying to recapture himself, or rather, to redefine himself, as the verse says "I didn't even want the heart you broke" and also "I won't be me when you see me again; No I won't be my father's son"
   
   Much like an abandonment of the "him" that he was while in the relationship, that during the relationship, he gave up himself for his partner, and for her happiness....whatever she wanted.
   
   The only real difficulty in this song is--
   There is no them
   There is only us
   There's only you
   There's only me
   
   So i hold to the idea that he is getting out of a one sided relationship, and NOW, he can declare:
   I'm more than you know
   I'm more than you see here
   I'm more than you let me be
   I'm more than you know
   A body and a soul
   You don't see me but you will
   I am not invisible
   I am here

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