With or Without You 

Bono wrote the lyrics during his first night visiting Côte d’Azur in 1986, while struggling to reconcile his responsibilities as both a married man and a musician. His wanderlust in belonging to a musical act was often at odds with his domestic life. While writing the lyrics, he realized that neither facet of his life defined him, but rather the tension between the two did. He explained that the final lyric is about "torment" and how repressing desires only makes them stronger.

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With or Without you

What does U2's most famous song "With or Without you" mean?

This 1987 hit single often went through mixed interpretation, but as confirmed by the songwriter Bono himself that the song is about his struggle to reconcile his responsibilities both as a married man and as a musician on road.
He cannot let go of either of it at the same time he cannot go on with it. That is why it says 'I can't live with our without you'

credit and source: Ishanu Dhar

With Or Without You Lyrics

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I'll wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You gave it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give

And you give yourself away

My hands are tied, my body bruised
She's got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you

Ooooooooo
Ooooooooo
Ooooooooo

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you

Uuuu
Uuuu

Songwriters
ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN

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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

not mine.credit and source: METROLYRICS