U2 at the BBC


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CAR HORN BEEPS All right.

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Sorry for bringing down the neighbourhood.

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We go this way, Adam.

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Oh, yeah.

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Tradesman's entrance.

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LAUGHTER

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And I get to play the gaffer.

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Yeah, right.

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# Hey...

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# Beautiful day...

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# Hey...

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APPLAUSE

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SONG: Beautiful Day

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# The heart is a bloom shoots up through stony ground

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# But there's no room no space to rent in this town

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# You're out of luck and the reason that you had to care

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# The traffic is stuck and you're not moving anywhere

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# You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place

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# Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace

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# It's a beautiful day the sky falls

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# And you feel like beautiful day

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# Oh

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# You're on the road but you've got no destination

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# You're in the mud in the maze of imagination

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# You love this town even if that doesn't ring true

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# You've been all over and it's been all over you

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# It's a beautiful day

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# Don't let it get away

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# Beautiful day

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# Touch me now take me to that other place

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# Teach me I know I'm not a hopeless case

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# There's a starman waiting in the sky

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# He'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds

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# There's a starman waiting in the sky

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# He told us not to blow it cos he thinks it's all worthwhile

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# See the world in green and blue

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# See China right in front of you

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# See the canyons broken by cloud

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# See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out

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# See the Bedouin fires at night

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# See the oil fields at first light

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# See the bird with a leaf in her mouth

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# After the flood all the colours came out

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# Day, day

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# Day, day

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# It was a beautiful day

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# Don't let it get away

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# A beautiful day

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# Touch me now take me to that other place

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# Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case

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# What you don't have you don't need it now

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# What you don't know you can feel it somehow

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# What you don't have you don't need it now

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# You don't need it now

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# Beautiful day

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# Beautiful. #

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Abbey Road.

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APPLAUSE

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The brilliant U2, everybody.

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Now, these four unassuming Irish boys were school-friends who

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embarked on a musical journey that's taken them to the very top of rock.

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I first met them about...

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Should I say, even? 20 years ago?

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-No!

-It was that long. It was that long ago.

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And we've been friends ever since,

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so, I'm very pleased to say welcome to U2 At The BBC.

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CHEERING

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You guys are famous for pioneering some of the biggest shows in rock.

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You're used to performing in front of 70,000 people, I think.

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Tonight, though, you're going to squeeze that performance

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into the tiny Abbey Road Studios

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which I'm imagining is actually going to be fairly difficult.

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Or do you enjoy it?

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Well, first of all, I am actually more nervous about this

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-than getting on stage in front of 70,000 people.

-Why?

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Because that 70,000-people stadium experience is something we have done

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since we were in our 20s - we have never done this before.

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We've never played our songs to a tiny little crowd

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in a setting like this.

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So, actually, got a few jitters about it.

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So why did you choose Abbey Road?

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What was it about Abbey Road that made you...?

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Well, it's a legendary place.

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It's one of the best studios in the world,

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and I guess The Beatles anointed it that way.

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You do feel like you should take your shoes off or something.

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Or do a few kind of, yeah, prayer bows or something.

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We got to know Macca a little bit

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and actually we met him in our Mecca here.

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I can't remember what album it was,

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but he came down and took us

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through what it was like and he reminded us that when they came,

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when The Beatles come to Abbey Road they'd to come in the tradesman's entrance.

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-No, they didn't.

-Yes, because musicians were...

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They weren't scientists and they weren't...

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They were of a different caste system.

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And of course the whole thing about The Beatles was they broke through

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that and became these great producers

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as well as great songwriters and great players.

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So that all happened in here.

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You could say that this is the Big Bang of pop music,

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this... This room.

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Is that why Adam and Larry and myself went in the other entrance?

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-LAUGHTER

-Is that what that is all about?

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Larry, how on earth did you choose the songs

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that you are going to perform tonight?

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14 albums to choose from, so how did you decide?

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Kind of left it to the scientist in our band, The Edge.

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It was really about...

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The choice of songs was about what would make sense for U2

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plus an orchestra.

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It is a long way from punk rock as well, it has to be said.

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And there was a sense of, "Is this too much?

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"Are we being self-indulgent here?"

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We've a choir, we've a 38-piece orchestra,

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and we felt kind of naughty

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because we have had big arrangements on A song

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but the idea of doing an entire night with those kinds of arrangements,

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it felt a little self-indulgent but we delighted in that self-indulgence.

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I was going to say, just enjoy it. We're all going to enjoy it tonight.

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Let's have a treat right now.

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What song are you going to give us next?

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Lights Of Home.

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-Watch out for this one.

-It's going to be good?

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It's one of the most extraordinary things

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we have ever had the good fortune of being a part of.

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-I'm ready. Are you ready?

-CHEERING

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OK, you guys go and get ready, off you go.

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CHEERING

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Next up we have a very special performance,

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it's an exclusive from U2's brand-new album -

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this is the brilliant Lights Of Home.

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It feels really good.

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This is...

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Thank you. This is a moment...

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These songs you're about to hear are very personal.

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They are sort of letters, a lot of them, to family, friends, to places.

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And to our audience, to you.

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This is Lights Of Home.

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APPLAUSE

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SONG: Lights Of Home

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# I shouldn't be here cos I should be dead

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# I can see the lights in front me

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# I believe my best days are ahead

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# I can see the lights in front of me

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# Oh, Jesus, if I'm still your friend

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# What the hell, what the hell you got for me?

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# I've got to get out from under my bed

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# To see again the lights in front of me

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# Hey, I've been waiting to get home a long time

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# Hey, now

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# Do you know my name?

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# Hey, now

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# Or where I'm going?

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# If I can't get an answer

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# In your eyes I'll see it

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# The lights of home

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# The lights of home

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# I was born from a screaming sound

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# I could see the lights in front of me

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# I thought my head was harder than ground

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# I could see the lights in front of me

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# One more push and I'll be born again

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# One more road you can't travel with a friend

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# Saw a statue of a gold guitar

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# Bright lights right in front of me

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# Hey, I've been waiting to get home a long time

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# Hey, now

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# Do you know my name?

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# Hey, now

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# Or where I'm going?

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# If I can't get an answer

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# In your eyes I see it

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# The lights of home

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# The lights of home

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# Hey, now

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# Do you know my name?

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# Hey, now

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# Or where I'm going?

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# If I can't get an answer

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# In your eyes I see it

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# In your eyes alone

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# I see the lights of home

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# Free yourself to be yourself

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# If only you could see yourself

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# If only you could

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# Free yourself to be yourself

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# If only you could see yourself

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# If only you could

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-# Free yourself to be yourself

-Free yourself

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-# If only you could see yourself

-Free yourself

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# If only you could

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# Free yourself to be yourself

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# If only you could see yourself

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# If only you could see. #

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HE INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY

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APPLAUSE

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Amazing stuff, guys. Thank you so much.

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Absolutely brilliant. Take a breather. Take a breather.

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For four decades you have been world leaders

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when it comes to massive arena tours.

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When you are on tour, do you actually pack your own suitcases?

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Bono does his and mine.

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I haven't changed much in that I never really pack my suitcase.

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I never really had a suitcase.

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I've been sort of sleeping on people's couches,

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and just turning up in other people's houses.

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Myself and Larry shared a room.

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He was excellent for a while - he tried to put some manners on me.

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Where you tidy, Larry?

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Did you have to keep picking up after him?

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I imagine you to be very tidy and liking things in their proper place.

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I'm not sure that I was very tidy,

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it was just clear that Bono was extremely untidy.

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LAUGHTER

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Larry, is it true that Bono would steal your underwear

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from time to time?

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That's not true.

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In fairness, that is not true.

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However, there was a lot of borrowing.

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Scarred for life.

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What's the worst fight you've ever had?

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I think I threw a drum-kit into the audience -

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it wasn't to do with Larry. LARRY MOUTHS

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It was more my own existential angst.

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And then they told me they would throw me out of the band

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if I ever did that again.

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Can I just correct you? You through the drum-kit at me.

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-Oh, yeah.

-Sorry about that.

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That's fine, seriously. I forgive you, really.

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See, that's nice. It takes a BBC special.

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Old wounds are healed.

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APPLAUSE

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This year U2 celebrated their 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree.

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30 years - I can't believe where that time has gone.

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CHEERING

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They went on a world tour and invited me to join them

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in Sao Paulo for the final shows.

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We agreed to meet in a quiet corner of the city to absorb some culture.

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It WAS quiet, but not for long.

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Look at that.

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-Hello.

-My God.

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-Shall we leave them in there?

-Shall we? Drive. Drive, drive.

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We wanted to show you some graffiti.

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This is...

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Just a casual walk down the street.

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How long do you think we're going to get away with this?

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Not for very much longer, actually.

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The game is already up.

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So what are the fans like here in Sao Paulo?

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I would say Ireland is 10, Brazil 100.

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Are you serious?

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No, no, they're drowning out the band.

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It's really something.

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Oh, I like this.

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That's cool. Can we buy a chair?

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Come on, this is great.

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Bono, it's for you.

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Hold on a second. Get me the Pentagon.

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-It's like the Batphone.

-It is.

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Bono, the Pope is on here.

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Sorry, I was just talking to The Donald there.

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He says he hasn't got time to take his confession.

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Yes, I will get down on my knees.

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Bye

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Taxi!

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-Do you need to go off and get ready?

-Yeah, we do.

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Because hair and make-up is going to take a while.

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-It's going to take hours.

-Oh, man.

-Go put your lip gloss on.

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-So where are we going now?

-We're going to go inside.

-Oh!

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Usually, where these dressing rooms are,

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it's the dressing rooms for sports-people,

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so there is a smell of men...

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..which I don't particularly like.

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So we have to fumigate and we put these...

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This is called pipe and drape.

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This is cheap material hung on scaffolding pipes

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just to make it seem a little girlie.

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But it doesn't really fool anyone.

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It's not white and floaty, Mariah would have white and floaty.

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-It's a little bit white and floaty.

-Yes, that's more Mariah.

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And here we have an actual rock star in a natural habitat.

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Would you like a cup of tea, darling?

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It's not as impressive as I thought it was going to be.

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You don't want to come here hungry, that's for sure.

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-No, definitely not.

-That's Edge's dinner.

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What are you having, Edge?

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I don't know.

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-Meatballs.

-Lamb! Oh, you devil.

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You definitely weren't getting that in one of your first gigs.

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-No.

-What's this for?

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It's something to do with the sound system.

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Nobody can work that.

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I mean, look...

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Look.

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On, off.

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I need these in my house.

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We still can't work it.

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Guitars, are they just for show or are they...?

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That's for warm-ups, the keyboard, the sound, just...

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-You've got to get the fingers moving.

-Oh.

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Can you give me a bit of something?

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Sure.

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Oh, it makes me go a bit funny.

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Shall we go and look at some clothes and let him have his dinner?

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OK. Enjoy your meatballs, then.

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Has anybody ever done this before?

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We don't normally show people the sort of back area.

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This is smoke and mirrors.

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That's Larry's show clothes,

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with his 28-inch waist, I think.

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This is my show jacket, which is very nice.

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And you've got to have something glamorous to change into after

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the show, so I have this.

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It's a nice combination of pink stars and camo.

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This is the restaurant area.

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"Pork and barley soup, coconut veggie soup, sirloin steak."

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This is much better than we get.

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Do you want to come and see the underworld,

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-under the stage where all the equipment is?

-Absolutely.

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-I think he means guitars.

-Do you?

-Later.

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Do you know your way to the stage?

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Normally we have arrows on the floor.

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Look, there's one!

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So this is where all the magic happens.

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By the way, your face actually lit up at that point.

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-It is still your favourite place, isn't it?

-It really is.

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Do you have one side and Adam has the other?

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This is all my stuff.

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Do you get competitive about it?

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No.

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Adam has only got for strings, I have six strings -

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it's a totally different world, you know.

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Incomparable.

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So do you want to come this way?

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-OK.

-I think I should lead.

-Where are we going? Will I be OK?

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After Edge there.

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CAT GASPS

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CHEERING

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I almost fell off the stage!

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So this is the crowd.

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Thanks, guys.

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It's an amazing feeling, isn't it?

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-Are you OK?

-Yes, I think I'm done.

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Good.

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Apparently we're about two minutes out.

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Are you ready?

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Good luck!

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And with that...

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show time.

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Hello.

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Are you OK?

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Yeah. Is this the BBC?

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Yes.

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There she is.

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How are you?

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I'm...

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I'll be with you in a minute.

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So how long is this going to take us, Edge?

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With the police escort, probably about 15 or 20 minutes.

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I came down, I sang to you, I don't know if you saw me.

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-Yes!

-Oh, you did.

-It was amazing.

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I do this thing at the end of the show, I hope you don't mind.

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It's a little meditation.

0:23:270:23:28

OK.

0:23:280:23:29

OK, let's have a beer.

0:23:320:23:34

-And old friends.

-Cheers.

0:23:340:23:36

We go to some of the most glamorous places in the world...

0:23:400:23:43

-You take me to all the best places.

-..and then go through the kitchen.

0:23:430:23:46

Hello.

0:23:460:23:47

MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH

0:23:590:24:02

CHEERING

0:24:050:24:07

Now that was a good party!

0:24:110:24:13

But...the gig was even better.

0:24:130:24:16

And what I love is as you're watching that, you go,

0:24:160:24:18

"Wow. That's where we were."

0:24:180:24:20

Yeah. Sometimes we don't think about it or stop to think about it

0:24:200:24:23

but seeing that there, seeing it on your face was also just beautiful.

0:24:230:24:26

When I went out there with you...

0:24:260:24:29

I was such a wuss but I couldn't help it.

0:24:290:24:31

It made me go so funny. Like, really...

0:24:310:24:35

Well, to be honest, it's never got old for us.

0:24:350:24:38

It's always the same -

0:24:380:24:40

that rush that you get from getting out in front of the audience

0:24:400:24:44

and playing your songs is the same.

0:24:440:24:46

Right, well, we want you to play some more songs now.

0:24:460:24:48

We want more. We want more!

0:24:480:24:50

So what are you going to play for us next?

0:24:500:24:52

-With Or Without You.

-With Or Without You.

0:24:520:24:53

OK, off you go. Get out there.

0:24:530:24:55

-Come on.

-Come on.

-CHEERING

0:24:550:24:58

OK, get ready for a sing-along.

0:24:590:25:01

This is U2 and With Or Without You.

0:25:010:25:04

It's amazing to...

0:25:060:25:08

..be in the company of, well...

0:25:090:25:11

..great musicians.

0:25:130:25:15

Adam, Larry, Edge.

0:25:150:25:17

These extraordinary...

0:25:190:25:20

..extraordinary instrumentalists.

0:25:220:25:24

John Metcalfe right there conducting.

0:25:240:25:27

SONG: With Or Without You

0:25:350:25:38

# See the stone set in your eyes

0:25:530:25:56

# See the thorn twist in your side

0:25:570:26:01

# I'll wait for you

0:26:010:26:05

# Sleight of hand and twist of fate

0:26:100:26:14

# On a bed of nails she makes me wait

0:26:140:26:17

# And I wait without you

0:26:190:26:23

# With or without you

0:26:250:26:27

# With or without you

0:26:290:26:32

# Through the storm we reach the shore

0:26:360:26:39

# You give it all but I want more

0:26:400:26:43

# And I'm waiting for you

0:26:450:26:49

# With or without you

0:26:510:26:53

# With or without you

0:26:550:26:58

# I can't live with or without you

0:27:000:27:07

# Yeah

0:27:080:27:10

# And you give yourself away

0:27:170:27:22

# And you give yourself away

0:27:220:27:26

# And you give, and you give

0:27:260:27:30

# And you give yourself away

0:27:300:27:34

# My hands are tied my body bruised

0:27:360:27:43

# She got me with nothing to win

0:27:430:27:47

# And nothing left to lose

0:27:470:27:52

# And you give yourself away

0:27:520:27:56

# And you give yourself away

0:27:560:28:00

# Yeah you give, you give

0:28:000:28:05

# You give yourself away

0:28:050:28:09

# With or without you

0:28:090:28:11

# With or without you

0:28:130:28:16

# I can't live

0:28:180:28:20

# With or without you

0:28:220:28:25

# Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh

0:28:270:28:34

# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

0:28:360:28:42

# With or without you

0:28:430:28:46

# With or without you

0:28:480:28:51

# I can't live

0:28:520:28:54

# With or without you

0:28:560:28:59

# With or without you

0:29:010:29:04

# Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

0:29:100:29:16

# Ooh-ooh ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. #

0:29:190:29:26

All right, check it out.

0:29:260:29:28

# Love, love will tear us apart again

0:29:360:29:43

# Love, love will tear us apart again

0:29:450:29:53

# And love, love will tear us apart again

0:29:530:30:00

# Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh

0:30:020:30:09

# Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh. #

0:30:110:30:18

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:30:210:30:24

Wow. Sit down. The break-up song to end all break-up songs.

0:30:400:30:44

Hearts are breaking all over the world.

0:30:450:30:48

Now, then, we've all made some pretty bad decisions

0:30:480:30:52

when we were teenagers.

0:30:520:30:54

I know I have, definitely.

0:30:540:30:55

But, Larry, you actually made a brilliant decision as a teenager

0:30:550:31:00

cos it was you that put the advert - was it on a school notice board?

0:31:000:31:05

Yes, I'd love to take total responsibility for that

0:31:050:31:08

but it was actually my dad.

0:31:080:31:10

He was very anxious to get me out of the house.

0:31:100:31:13

-OK. He just want to get rid of you, basically.

-He just wanted me out of the house.

0:31:130:31:16

I was taking up the boxroom and I was very noisy.

0:31:160:31:19

I think he felt if there was a band thing I would move into

0:31:190:31:22

somebody else's house.

0:31:220:31:23

-Or the shed.

-Or the shed, something like that.

0:31:230:31:26

-And these three reprobates turned up?

-Yeah, that's it.

0:31:260:31:29

Was it difficult to choose them?

0:31:290:31:31

Or were they the only ones that turned up?

0:31:310:31:34

It was one of those great things where you think you're choosing them

0:31:340:31:38

and it turns out that they actually chose you.

0:31:380:31:41

And it could have been somebody else's kitchen.

0:31:410:31:43

It was my kitchen that Saturday but I think they had plans for a couple

0:31:430:31:47

of Saturdays along the way, there were a couple of people lined up.

0:31:470:31:51

I think I made the best coffee.

0:31:510:31:54

-Do you know, that's not true.

-No?

0:31:540:31:56

Larry definitely started the band.

0:31:560:31:59

There would not have been a band without him.

0:31:590:32:02

Adam was the second most ambitious person.

0:32:020:32:06

He actually printed up cards with, "Manager - Adam Clayton".

0:32:060:32:11

Because Edge and myself strangely enough were kind of...

0:32:110:32:15

We were like, "What?

0:32:150:32:17

"Yes, we would like to be in a band,

0:32:170:32:19

"but, you mean, for the rest of our lives, kind of thing?"

0:32:190:32:22

And I wasn't going to go to the rehearsal.

0:32:220:32:25

I was just another, whatever it is, angry kid,

0:32:250:32:28

and if Larry hadn't done that,

0:32:280:32:31

I wouldn't be anywhere, I don't think.

0:32:310:32:34

But hold on, hold on.

0:32:350:32:36

There was that moment where I think you won

0:32:360:32:39

a competition in Limerick and you won £500, is that correct?

0:32:390:32:43

Is that the first competition you won?

0:32:430:32:46

Did you think you were millionaires at the time?

0:32:460:32:48

Did you think...? What did you spend it on?

0:32:480:32:50

-The manager ran off with it.

-Did he? Boo!

0:32:500:32:54

I do remember we also got posters, which was again Adam's idea.

0:32:540:32:59

And didn't your mum used to drive you around and you used to stick them over other people's posters?

0:32:590:33:03

This is true.

0:33:030:33:04

She had a Welsh accent and an orange Beetle.

0:33:040:33:07

Yep, a VW Beetle and we would all jump in the back

0:33:070:33:10

and when there were no police on the street,

0:33:100:33:13

we would get out and we'd have pre-made long posters which we used.

0:33:130:33:18

I think wallpaper was the basis of it.

0:33:180:33:20

-What did they say, The Edge?

-What did they say?

0:33:200:33:22

"U2 at The Baggot Inn", blah-blah-blah, whatever.

0:33:220:33:24

No. "U2 can happen to anyone".

0:33:240:33:28

-I see what you've done.

-I still don't know what it means.

0:33:280:33:31

LAUGHTER

0:33:310:33:33

Another choice that you made...

0:33:330:33:34

WELSH ACCENT: "The police have gone, Edge."

0:33:340:33:36

Is that what she'd say?

0:33:360:33:38

"OK, go, the police have gone. Get out, lads."

0:33:380:33:41

She was our first roadie, Mrs The Edge.

0:33:410:33:43

I love the idea of her, I love it.

0:33:430:33:45

One of the other ideas that you had was to have nicknames.

0:33:450:33:49

The nicknames were just...

0:33:490:33:51

I mean it's probably an odd thing to,

0:33:510:33:55

in one sense, reject your family name

0:33:550:33:58

and to be known by something else.

0:33:580:34:01

But our names sometimes say a lot about you,

0:34:030:34:07

the names that friends call each other.

0:34:070:34:10

I mean, is he not The Edge?

0:34:100:34:12

And what about Bono?

0:34:120:34:14

I was originally Bono Vox.

0:34:140:34:18

Yeah, and it was the name of a hearing aid shop.

0:34:180:34:21

I think it means "strong voice".

0:34:210:34:23

If you're in trouble with Ali, does she still call you Bono?

0:34:230:34:26

What do you have written on your cup at coffee shops?

0:34:260:34:29

The only person...

0:34:310:34:32

Sometimes people come up and use the name Paul,

0:34:320:34:36

but it makes me nervous because the only person who called me

0:34:360:34:38

Paul through my life was my father.

0:34:380:34:42

-When you were in trouble.

-So I would be twitching.

0:34:420:34:45

Ali calls me Bono and I've been Bono since I was 14.

0:34:450:34:50

-So...

-That's it. It's there to stay.

0:34:500:34:53

But you obviously have been together for these 40 years now

0:34:530:34:56

and, Larry, you're the guy who sits at the back,

0:34:560:35:00

that sees these three come in front of him every time you perform.

0:35:000:35:05

How have they changed over the years?

0:35:050:35:07

-I wish I'd taken photographs over the years.

-Yes.

0:35:070:35:09

-Because it's quite...

-Everything started much perter.

0:35:110:35:14

Well, it's just...

0:35:140:35:16

It's even little movements...

0:35:160:35:18

-Give me an example.

-Just small things like that,

0:35:180:35:22

for instance, The Edge does and they're small things,

0:35:220:35:25

and I noticed in the kitchen 42 years ago, he did them as well.

0:35:250:35:30

-You heard a bit of it.

-This is news to me.

-I'm really interested in this.

0:35:300:35:33

Dun-du-dun-dun...

0:35:330:35:35

He did that 42 years ago, and every time we get on stage,

0:35:350:35:39

Edge plays that song.

0:35:390:35:41

And it's the song...

0:35:410:35:42

That basically is the one that he needs

0:35:420:35:47

to get us all to understand that we are in that band.

0:35:470:35:54

That really wide thing, so Edge does that for us.

0:35:540:35:58

There you go.

0:36:000:36:01

You didn't know that, did you? All turn round...

0:36:010:36:05

But we have had to listen to "dun-du-dun-dun" quite a lot.

0:36:050:36:07

Now I know... Now I will look at it differently.

0:36:070:36:11

Can you tell me about your next song? What are you going to play next for us?

0:36:110:36:14

Stuck In A Moment.

0:36:140:36:15

Why are you choosing to play this song?

0:36:150:36:17

Well, last month, November,

0:36:180:36:22

was the 20th anniversary of the exit

0:36:220:36:27

of our great friend Michael Hutchence from the planet,

0:36:270:36:30

the singer of INXS.

0:36:300:36:31

Extraordinary person,

0:36:310:36:34

this luminous mind and beautiful soul

0:36:340:36:39

and this is kind of...

0:36:390:36:42

This song is like an argument with him, even though he was gone.

0:36:420:36:45

It's the argument and it's the kind of argument you have

0:36:470:36:51

with somebody you love.

0:36:510:36:53

You are being unreasonable but you want to make a point in it.

0:36:530:36:57

So, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of.

0:36:580:37:00

I said that like a DJ.

0:37:000:37:02

-Off you go. Go do it.

-OK.

0:37:020:37:04

APPLAUSE

0:37:040:37:06

This is the incredible Stuck In A Moment.

0:37:090:37:12

SONG: Stuck In A Moment

0:37:150:37:19

The guitar...

0:37:280:37:29

# I'm not afraid of anything in this world

0:37:370:37:42

# There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard

0:37:430:37:47

# I'm just trying to find a decent melody

0:37:490:37:53

# A song that I can sing in my own company

0:37:540:37:58

# I never thought you were a fool

0:38:000:38:03

# But darling, look at you

0:38:060:38:08

# You gotta stand up straight carry your own weight

0:38:110:38:17

# These tears are going nowhere, baby

0:38:170:38:22

# You've got to get yourself together

0:38:220:38:26

# You've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

0:38:260:38:32

# Don't say that later will be better

0:38:330:38:37

# Now you're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

0:38:370:38:43

# I will not forsake the colours that you bring

0:38:490:38:54

# But the nights you filled with fireworks

0:38:540:38:57

# Did they leave you with nothing?

0:38:570:39:00

# I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me

0:39:000:39:05

# I still listen through your ears and through your eyes I can see

0:39:050:39:10

# And you are such a fool

0:39:120:39:15

# To worry like you do

0:39:170:39:21

# I know it's tough and you can never get enough

0:39:230:39:29

# Of what you don't really need now, my, oh, my

0:39:290:39:34

# You've got to get yourself together

0:39:340:39:38

# You got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

0:39:380:39:44

# Oh, lord, look at you now

0:39:450:39:49

# You're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

0:39:490:39:55

# I was unconscious, half asleep

0:39:550:39:58

# The water is warm till you discover how deep

0:39:580:40:02

# I wasn't jumping for me it was a fall

0:40:060:40:09

# It's a long way down to nothing at all

0:40:090:40:14

# Oh, yeah

0:40:140:40:18

# You've got to get yourself together

0:40:180:40:22

# You got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

0:40:220:40:28

# Don't say that later will be better

0:40:290:40:33

# Now you're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

0:40:330:40:39

# And if the night runs over

0:40:400:40:45

# And if the day won't last

0:40:450:40:50

# And if your way should falter

0:40:510:40:56

# Along the stony pass

0:40:560:41:01

# And if the night runs over

0:41:020:41:07

# And if the day won't last

0:41:070:41:12

# And if your way should falter

0:41:130:41:19

# Along the stony pass

0:41:190:41:24

# It's just a moment

0:41:260:41:28

# It's just a moment

0:41:310:41:33

# This too shall pass. #

0:41:350:41:40

APPLAUSE

0:41:400:41:42

It's a very difficult thing for us.

0:41:490:41:52

There's been a couple of moments where I looked out there and I saw 100,000 people.

0:41:520:41:55

And I'm not drinking. LAUGHTER

0:41:550:41:58

What happened to the pyro? I was told there was going to be pyro?

0:41:580:42:01

No pyro. There's no pyro.

0:42:010:42:03

They're like letters, a lot of these songs and...

0:42:040:42:08

..this next one I thought was to our daughters.

0:42:100:42:13

But like everything,

0:42:150:42:17

you preach what you need to hear.

0:42:170:42:19

Isn't that right, The Edge?

0:42:200:42:21

Well, you preach what you need to hear.

0:42:310:42:34

Oh, yeah.

0:42:360:42:37

SONG: Get Out Of Your Own Way

0:42:400:42:43

# Get out of your own way

0:42:470:42:50

# Get out of your own way

0:42:540:42:58

# Love hurts, now you're the girl who's left with no words

0:43:010:43:06

# Your heart's a balloon but then it bursts

0:43:060:43:10

# It doesn't take a cannon just a pin

0:43:100:43:12

# Your skin's no covering

0:43:120:43:15

# Resistance, love has got to fight for its existence

0:43:150:43:21

# The enemy has armies of assistants

0:43:210:43:24

# The amorous, the glamorous

0:43:240:43:26

# A kiss, a fist

0:43:260:43:28

# Listen to this, oh

0:43:280:43:31

# Get out of your own way

0:43:310:43:34

# Ah!

0:43:350:43:37

# Get out of your own way

0:43:380:43:41

# Ah!

0:43:430:43:46

# I can sing it to you all night, all night

0:43:460:43:49

# If I could, I'd make it all right, all right

0:43:490:43:53

# Nothing's stopping you except what's inside

0:43:530:43:56

# I can help you but it's your fight, your fight

0:43:560:44:00

# Fight back, don't take it lying down

0:44:000:44:03

# You've got to bite back

0:44:030:44:05

# The face of liberty is starting to crack

0:44:050:44:08

# She had a plan and then she took a smack in the mouth

0:44:080:44:12

# And it all went south like

0:44:120:44:14

# Freedom, the slaves are looking for someone to lead them

0:44:140:44:20

# The master's looking for someone to need him

0:44:200:44:23

# The promised land is there for those who need it most

0:44:230:44:27

# And Lincoln's ghost said

0:44:270:44:29

# Get out of your own way

0:44:300:44:33

# Ah

0:44:350:44:37

# Get out of your own way

0:44:370:44:41

# Ah

0:44:420:44:44

# I can sing it to you all night, all night

0:44:440:44:48

# If I could, I'd make it all right, all right

0:44:480:44:52

# Nothing's stopping you except what's inside

0:44:520:44:55

# I can help you but it's your fight, your fight

0:44:550:45:00

# Get out of your own way

0:45:000:45:03

# Get out of your own way

0:45:070:45:10

# Get out of your own way

0:45:290:45:32

# Get out of your own way

0:45:370:45:40

# Get out of your own way

0:45:440:45:48

# Blessed are the arrogant

0:45:560:45:59

# For theirs is the kingdom of their own company

0:45:590:46:02

# Blessed are the bullies

0:46:040:46:06

# For one day they will have to stand up to themselves

0:46:060:46:10

# Blessed are the liars

0:46:120:46:15

# For the truth could be awkward. #

0:46:150:46:20

APPLAUSE

0:46:230:46:26

Come and sit down here for me, guys.

0:46:290:46:32

Come and sit down.

0:46:320:46:34

So tell us a little bit about the new album.

0:46:350:46:39

Is it the sequel to Songs Of Innocence?

0:46:390:46:41

Yeah, they were always a two-album set.

0:46:420:46:46

And a lot of the songs on the album are letters to people.

0:46:460:46:50

Who are they letters to and why have you chosen to do that?

0:46:500:46:53

I've had a few brushes with mortality over the years,

0:46:530:46:58

or reminders that we might not be around forever.

0:46:580:47:02

And I just thought, well, if I'm not around, just in case,

0:47:020:47:06

I should really have it laid out for my kids, my sons and daughters.

0:47:060:47:13

For our kids, for our friends, our families.

0:47:130:47:16

There is a letter to a country there, America, it's called American Soul.

0:47:160:47:21

There's a letter to our audience about how you shouldn't trust

0:47:210:47:24

performers too much.

0:47:240:47:26

And not all of them are letters but that's where it came from.

0:47:260:47:30

And one of the things that you actually did with your last

0:47:300:47:33

album was you gifted it to people.

0:47:330:47:35

-And some people were not very happy about it.

-Yeah.

0:47:350:47:38

-They were quite vocal about it.

-A couple.

0:47:380:47:40

They weren't happy when it turned up on their iPhone.

0:47:400:47:42

But then again that's only the people you know about,

0:47:420:47:46

but we had a lot of people thank us for the gift.

0:47:460:47:49

We have a much bigger audience now.

0:47:490:47:51

And I talked them into it,

0:47:510:47:53

I went into Apple and said,

0:47:530:47:55

"Look, you are the people who get people to pay for music.

0:47:550:48:01

"Why not reward the people who pay for music by a gift?"

0:48:010:48:04

And Tim Cook said, "That's a brilliant idea, really good.

0:48:040:48:07

"And a gift? OK, good.

0:48:070:48:10

"So you're giving your album free?"

0:48:100:48:13

And we said, "No.

0:48:130:48:15

"You pay us, and then you give it free."

0:48:150:48:19

-And...

-Did they agree to that?

0:48:190:48:21

Yeah. We were trying to...

0:48:210:48:23

If you imagine this as like our album, like a bottle of milk,

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was to arrive on your doorstep as a gift.

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-You would open it up, there it is.

-Open the door - "Ooh, that's lovely!"

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Our bottle of milk ended up going into your kitchen, into your fridge

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and actually sometimes on your Cornflakes.

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That is what happened, that upset people, but it was not the intention.

0:48:400:48:44

Would you do it again? That is the question.

0:48:440:48:46

Of course, yeah, yeah.

0:48:460:48:48

It is time for another song, you guys. Can we have another one?

0:48:480:48:51

-We can.

-OK, head on up there for me.

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Thank you. You're out of here. See you in a minute.

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APPLAUSE

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OK.

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It's hard to imagine now, but in the early '90s,

0:49:030:49:05

U2 were on the verge of breaking up.

0:49:050:49:08

This is the song that brought the band back from the brink.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's U2 with One.

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SONG: One

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So we wrote this in Germany after the Wall came down.

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And 30 years later we are singing it as walls are going up.

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One.

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# Is it getting better or do you feel the same?

0:49:500:49:56

# Will it make it easier on you now you got someone to blame?

0:49:590:50:07

# You say one love, one life

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# When it's one need in the night

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# One love, we get to share it

0:50:200:50:24

# Leaves you, baby if you don't care for it

0:50:250:50:30

# Did I disappoint you

0:50:420:50:44

# Leave a bad taste in your mouth?

0:50:460:50:49

# You act like you never had love and you want me to go without

0:50:510:50:59

# Well, it's too late tonight

0:51:000:51:07

# To drag the past out into the light

0:51:070:51:12

# We're one, but we're not the same

0:51:120:51:15

# We get to carry each other carry each other

0:51:170:51:21

# One

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# Have you come here for forgiveness?

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# Have you come to raise the dead?

0:51:380:51:41

# Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?

0:51:440:51:51

# Did I ask too much more than a lot?

0:51:540:51:58

# You gave me nothing now it's all I got

0:51:590:52:03

# We're one, but we're not the same

0:52:040:52:08

# Well, we hurt each other then we do it again

0:52:080:52:13

# You say love is a temple love a higher law

0:52:130:52:19

# Love is a temple love the higher law

0:52:190:52:24

# You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl

0:52:240:52:30

# And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt

0:52:300:52:38

# One love, one blood, one life you got to do what you should

0:52:380:52:46

# One life with each other sisters, brothers

0:52:490:52:58

# One life, but we're not the same

0:52:580:53:03

# We get to carry each other carry each other

0:53:030:53:08

# One

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# There's no-one else there's only us

0:53:300:53:33

# No-one else, there's only us

0:53:350:53:39

# No-one else, there's only us

0:53:410:53:44

# No-one else, there's only us

0:53:460:53:49

# Ooh-ooh

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# Ooh-ooh

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# Ooh-ooh

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# Ooh-ooh. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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The brilliant One, love that song.

0:54:220:54:24

Now, what an amazing evening we have had.

0:54:240:54:27

That's almost all we've got time for

0:54:270:54:29

but there is room for one final song.

0:54:290:54:32

A big thank you for watching

0:54:320:54:33

and a big thank you to Larry, Adam, Bono and The Edge.

0:54:330:54:37

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one, the only U2.

0:54:370:54:41

CHEERING

0:54:410:54:44

SONG: Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way

0:54:470:54:50

# It's not time to make a change

0:54:520:54:56

# Just relax and take it easy

0:54:560:55:00

-# You're still young THE EDGE:

-One, two, three, four

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# That's not your fault

0:55:020:55:05

# There's so much you have to know

0:55:050:55:08

# Find a girl, settle down

0:55:080:55:11

# If you want, you can marry

0:55:120:55:16

# Look at me, I'm old

0:55:160:55:18

# But I'm happy

0:55:190:55:21

# The door is open to go through

0:55:280:55:35

# If I could, I would come too

0:55:360:55:40

# But the path is made by you

0:55:410:55:46

# As you're walking start singing and stop talking

0:55:460:55:50

# Oh

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# If I could hear myself when I say

0:55:550:55:59

# Oh

0:56:010:56:04

# Love is bigger than anything in its way

0:56:060:56:12

# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

0:56:120:56:17

# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

0:56:170:56:22

# So young to be the words of your own song

0:56:220:56:29

# I know the rage in you is strong

0:56:300:56:34

# So write a world where we can belong

0:56:360:56:40

# To each other and sing it like no other

0:56:400:56:44

# Oh

0:56:440:56:48

# If I could hear myself when I say

0:56:490:56:53

# Oh

0:56:550:56:59

# Love is bigger than anything in its way

0:57:010:57:06

# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

0:57:060:57:10

# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

0:57:110:57:16

# If the moonlight caught you crying on Killiney Bay

0:57:160:57:22

# Oh, sing your song let your song be sung

0:57:220:57:27

# If you listen you can hear the silence say

0:57:270:57:33

# When you think you're done you've just begun

0:57:330:57:38

# Love is bigger than anything in its way

0:57:520:58:02

# Love is bigger than anything in its way

0:58:020:58:13

# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

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# Love is bigger than anything in its way

0:58:140:58:22

# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

0:58:220:58:24

# Love is bigger Bigger

0:58:240:58:30

# Nothing you can do that can't be done

0:58:300:58:34

# All you need is love

0:58:340:58:36

# Love is bigger than anything in its way

0:58:360:58:44

# Love is bigger...#

0:58:460:58:51

Thank you.

0:58:550:58:56

# Love is bigger than anything in its way...

0:58:560:59:02

Thank you so much.

0:59:020:59:03

# Love is bigger than anything in its way. #

0:59:070:59:17

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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