The title track to U2's second album, "October" shares its name with the month the album was released, which served as symbolism for Bono's lyric. He explained the inspiration behind the title in the band bio U2 by U2: "It was the idea that we were born in the '60s, a time when materialism was in full bloom. We had fridges and cars, we sent people to the moon and everybody thought how great mankind was. But the '80s was a colder time, materialism without any idealism, the sun without any heat, winter. It was after the fall, after the harvest."
The lyrics reflect the Christian beliefs Bono, The Edge, and Larry Mullen as they were struggling as members of a devoutly religious group. They considered breaking up the band as they felt it may conflict with their faith.
The Edge played the piano part, which Bono quite liked. Bono wrote in his book Surrender: "'October' carries the gentle power of Edge, the ache of his loneliness, that longing to belong. The song became a location for a meditation on impermanence. On faith."
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