Flowing directly from the violent “An Cat Dubh”, “Into the Heart” reflects on innocence and childhood. Lost and confused in a dark, disturbing world, Bono seeks to escape by remembering how it felt like to be a child.
[Verse 1]
Into the heart of a child
I stay awhile
But I can go there
[Verse 2]
Into the heart of a child
I can smile
I can go there
[Verse 3]
Into the heart
Into the heart of a child
I can go back
I can stay awhile
Into the heart
[Outro]
Into the heart
Into the Heart was written by Bono & The Edge (Guitarist) & Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Jr..
Into the Heart was produced by Steve Lillywhite.
U2 released Into the Heart on Mon Oct 20 1980.
Bono in U2 by U2 (2006):
The sequence that blows my mind is ‘An Cat Dubh,’ the black cat, to ‘Into The Heart.’ It’s astonishing. Just the violences of Edge’s guitar playing, this image of temptation, a cat sleeping beside a dead bird in suburban Dublin, and playing with it, the way they do, cat sta...