U2: Lemon Meaning

Song Released: 1993

Lemon Lyrics

See through in the sunlight
She wore lemon
But never in the daylight
She's gonna make you cry
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
And when you're dry
She draws her water from the stone

And I feel
Like I'm slowly, slowly, slowly...

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   anonymous

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   Sep 4th 2005 !⃝

   This is a love song of sorts, but the woman is his mother. Bono's mother died when he was a kid, and he said he had even forgotten what she looked like. This song is about an old photograph (home video?) he found of her wearing a lemon yellow dress, and the rush of emotions tied to it.
   
   It's a song about loss, but more than that, it's about man's attempts to fill that hole with technology. "And I feel like I'm holding on to nothing" "A man makes a picture/a moving picture/Through light projected he can see himself up close/A man captures color, a man likes to stare/Turns his money into light to look for her"
2. anonymous

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   May 6th 2019 !⃝

   she's gonna make you cry she's gonna make you wish for heaven and when you're running dry she pulls water from the stone
   Steve Harvey is a reactionary bigot. But since he's black its perfectly okay.
   Watch more TV MIDNIGHT IS WHERE THE DAY BEGINS
   THE END IS NIGH
   Marshal McLuhan "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" out of print find it read it
3. ollie510

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   Sep 27th 2007 !⃝

   I enjoyed the first interpretation but I have some questions: in the DVD, ZOO TV, why does Bono personify the Devil (or MacPhisto) when they play this song? I believe he is suggesting the dangers of this technology just as much, or even more so, then the positive aspects of it. Perhaps, U2 is making the point that film creates a simulated reality which gets in the way of fundamental human interaction in everyday, waking reality. How TV and the media itself, is screwing around with our perceptions, stealing from human face to face interaction, creating a false, insidious picture of humanity. The messages Bono is trying to get across as MacPhisto is ambiguous but, in summary, I think the song is both a celebration and a stern warning.

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