I am pretty sure that I have read that Bono, while being an extremely spiritual person, is not a big believer in organized religion. I felt like last stanza was more about the trappings of the Roman Catholic church. Priests wear rich man's cloaks, gave me a cup of gold referring to communion, many mansions are all the gold filled cathedrals scattered throughout the world, keys to kingdom coming are the strict teachings of the church and the dangled carrot of salvation, and so he chooses to walk away from the control the church has on his life, and chooses to keep his spirituality, the Holy Spirit, expressed in the first two stanzas, but on his own terms. This song is a song of rebellion against the church, and the first time, is the first time he gets to feel true liberated love (in the christian sense) without someone telling him how it's supposed to be.
I am pretty sure that I have read that Bono, while being an extremely spiritual person, is not a big believer in organized religion. I felt like last stanza was more about the trappings of the Roman Catholic church. Priests wear rich man's cloaks, gave me a cup of gold referring to communion, many mansions are all the gold filled cathedrals scattered throughout the world, keys to kingdom coming are the strict teachings of the church and the dangled carrot of salvation, and so he chooses to walk away from the control the church has on his life, and chooses to keep his spirituality, the Holy Spirit, expressed in the first two stanzas, but on his own terms. This song is a song of rebellion against the church, and the first time, is the first time he gets to feel true liberated love (in the christian sense) without someone telling him how it's supposed to be.