U2 "Hawkmoon 269"

Like a desert needs rain
Like a town needs a name
I need your love

Like a drifter needs a room
Hawkmoon
I need your love
I need your love

Like a rhythm unbroken
Like drums in the night
Like sweet soul music
Like sunlight
I need your love

Like coming home
And you don't know where you've been
Like black coffee
Like nicotine
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)

When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
I need your love

Like a Phoenix rising needs a holy tree
Like the sweet revenge of a bitter enemy
I need your love

Like the hot needs the sun
Like honey on her tongue
Like the muzzle of a gun
Like oxygen
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)

When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love

I need your love
Whoa!
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love

Like thunder needs rain
Like a preacher needs pain
Like tongues of flame
Like a sheet stained
I need your love
I need your love

Like a needle needs a vein
Like someone to blame
Like a thought unchained
Like a runaway train
I need your love

I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love

Like faith needs a doubt
Like a freeway out
I need your love

Like powder needs a spark
Like lies need the dark
I need your love

In the heart of the heat of the love
In the heart of the heat of the love
In the heart of the heat of the love
In the heart of the heat of the love
In the heart of the heat of the love
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The "269" in the title refers to the number of mixes they tried before getting it right in the studio - that number does not appear in the lyrics. The origin of "Hawkmoon" is less clear: The Edge once said that Hawkmoon is a town in North Dakota U2 passed through in 1986 on the Conspiracy Of Hope tour for Amnesty International, leading Bono to use it as a title, but there is no such town in either of the Dakotas. More likely, Bono got the idea from a collection of short stories by Sam Shepard called Hawk Moon, originally published in 1973.

U2 were recording at Sunset Sound studios in Hollywood when Bono came up with the lyrics for this song. Running 6:22, it's a story of desire and desperation. Bono was enjoying the nightlife in the area and was influenced by the seedy scenes in Los Angeles. He was also influenced by his hangover, which is why he came up with lines like:

When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love

Bono spends much of the song repeating the line, "I need your love."

Bob Dylan played the Hammond organ on this track. The band connected with Dylan during their Joshua Tree tour when he joined them on stage at a show in Los Angeles. Dylan also co-wrote a song with the band called "Love Rescue Me," which like "Hawkmoon 269," appears on Rattle And Hum.
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