Achtung Baby Songwriting Credits by U2

The booklet keeps U2's standing arrangement: Bono writes every lyric, the four members share the music. On this record that split describes something real rather than a formality, because the songs were found in jam sessions instead of brought in as demos, so a four-way music credit is a literal account of who was in the room. The lyrics pull the opposite way. Bono was writing about the breakdown of the Edge's marriage and about becoming a father, which makes the most private words on any U2 album sit on top of parts the band argued its way into. Lanois and Eno reshaped the sound without taking a writing credit, so the producer line moves from track to track while the songwriting line never changes.