in a revealing interview for the podcast Song Exploder, Bono and the Edge broke down U2's songwriting process and recalled the rough North Dublin roots that inspired the Songs of Innocence cut, "Cedarwood Road." Bono looked back to his life there as a teenager, when skinhead culture seeped into his neighborhood via the Seven Towers, housing projects that were built around that time. The song gets its name and story from the street Bono grew up on, but it began ? like many U2 tracks ? with a guitar riff the Edge came up with at home. In speaking about these initial steps, the Edge noted he sketches songs on GarageBand and works with drum loops Larry Mullen Jr. recorded for the demo process. The Edge noted, "My job is to find a way to inspire Adam and Larry and Bono, so I don't often care to finish out a piece fully,"
