A Man and a Woman (song) another completely different song, they chopped it up and connected together with the new one. It was inspiring to Bono to keep working on that. Bono cites Thin Lizzy founding member Phil Lynott as the influence for the style in which he sings the song. Bono, who has been interested in the distance that lies between men and women, wrote this song about "rediscovering a kind of flirtatious and romantic love". The Edge classes "A Man and a Woman" as the wild card on "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb". U2 Additional performers Technical Footnotes Bibliography A Man and a
Woman in Chains the impetus for the lyric to "Melody Maker": "I was reading some feminist literature at the time and I discovered that there are societies in the world still in existence today that are non-patriarchal. They don't have the man at the top and the women at the bottom. They're matricentric — they have the woman at the centre and these societies are a lot less violent, a lot less greedy and there's generally less animosity... but the song is also about how men traditionally play down the feminine side of their characters and how both men and women suffer for