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An Cat Dubh Lyrics
Say goodnight
She waits for me to put out the light When I'm still She waits to break my will O-o-o-o-oh, o-o-oh O-o-o-oh, o-o-oh Yes, if I know the truth about you She-cat And in the daylight A blackbird makes a violent sight And when she is done She sleeps beside the one O-o-o-o-oh, o-o-oh O-o-o-o-oh, o-o-oh Yes, if I know the truth about you She-cat O-o-o-o-oh, o-o-oh O-o-o-o-oh, o-o-oh O-o-o-oh, o-o-oh Yes, if I know the truth about you She-cat
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09-20-2004
The title of this song(which is Gaelic)translates into "The Black Cat".The joke about it is that all students in Ireland are required to take Gaelic and Bono failed this in school.
Great song too,probably my favorite.
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12-26-2004
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03-14-2005
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05-13-2005
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12-29-2005
I've heard that Bono had had a brief fling with a woman during a short-lived split from Ali in high school. This song is supposedly about that woman. From what Bono has said, she was mysterious and clearly from the dark undertones of the song, it was her arcane mystery that fascinated him.
From the lyric, I imagine this woman being some kind of Priestess. Bono is insanely attracted to her but he doesn't understand her, nor does he fully understand why he feels so drawn to her and helpless against her. I always imagine this woman being older than Bono or at least quite a bit more mature; like a Patricia Kennealy to his Jim Morrison. She uses him as her pet, yes, but she also teaches him a great deal in the process. By the end of the song, you feel as if the singer/lyricist has learned a great lesson and has achieved a sense of real manhood. You can almost feel the transition from boyhood to manhood throughout this song. As if this dark and mysterious woman has turned the boy into a man.
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02-08-2006
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08-20-2006
Bono in his own words told he is the cat! He changed the meaning of the song and everybody thinks the cat is the girl, but he is the cat!!!
The cat catches its objetc of desire, maybe a bird and plays with it untill its dead, and then, when he is satisfied... sleeps beside the body!
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08-20-2006
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11-08-2006
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02-27-2008
Bono is remembering such an animal; the title suggests a black cat. It sleeps, it chases a bird, it sits around; classic feline behaviours.
And the mystery of the cat's mind, the impossibility of reading that expressionless whiskered face, is brilliantly evoked by the wordless chorus: "oh oh oh oooh, oooh oh oh ooooh".
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08-25-2008
I also love the way this song flows into "Into The Heart." A great suite of music from one of the best albums of the 1980s. Whenever I listen to U2 again after a break, this is always the one I come back to.
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