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[Bono] Growing up in Ireland,
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it felt as if the future
was always somewhere else.
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In our Dublin,
it felt as if there were no present,
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let alone past or future.
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[Bono] In our band,
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we felt estranged from any traditions
we could have held on to.
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And the question
that began to intrigue us was,
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"How do we fit into this story?"
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I'm looking for the peanut butter cups.
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[grocer] I don't think we got some here.
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{\an8}[announcer on PA, indistinct]
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{\an8}Eh, what are those?
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{\an8}Just-- Just--
I don't wanna touch your food.
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{\an8}Well, see, now you've touched--
Okay. Thank you.
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{\an8}[announcer on PA] ...for boarding.
Thank you.
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{\an8}- You know, what's your name?
- Felix.
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Felix? I'm Dave.
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Nice to see you.
I'm trying to get to Dublin.
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Take care. Thank you.
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{\an8}[announcer on PA, indistinct]
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{\an8}I'll tell you what else is, uh,
great about the show tonight.
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{\an8}This is the biggest, the greatest,
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{\an8}most exciting, most influential
rock-and-roll band in the world.
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Ladies and gentlemen, once again, U2.
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[crowd cheering]
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["A Sort of Homecoming" playing]
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U2, ladies and gentlemen.
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- [Edge] Hi, Dave.
- Oh, my goodness.
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- A pleasure to see you again.
- Good to see you.
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[Letterman]
Thank you for letting me be part of this.
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Good God. What expectations
you have set for yourself.
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[crowd laughs]
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Writer, poetry and prose, musician.
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Something else I forgot.
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My, um, self-esteem... never been lower.
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- I just wanna tell you...
- [laughs]
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...the door is now closed.
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- [laughs]
- You and I are not gonna be best friends.
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D-D-Do you like
retrospectives of yourself?
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Do you like looking over your shoulder
at this point in your life?
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No.
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Okay. Well, that's all we need.
Thank you very much.
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[laughs]
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Let's-- Let's talk about music.
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Years of reflection has caused you
to change lyrics in some of these songs.
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Some of them you thought perhaps
were never finished in the first place.
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Yeah, that's right.
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[musicians chattering]
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We wanted to, sort of,
strip away the artifice
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that inevitably emerges after
you've been around this long.
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[Edge] In the isolation of the pandemic,
it was almost like the question became,
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"What is left when everything
is stripped away?"
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But where do you take it?
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All right, yeah.
Let's take it from the top.
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Do you-- Do you wanna know
what I did during the pandemic?
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- What did you do?
- Calligraphy.
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- Really?
- Yeah.
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- I've gotten very good.
- How cool.
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- Wow.
- Yeah.
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{\an8}[Bono] ♪ We'll build a bridge
Across the sea and land ♪
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♪ For tonight... ♪
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[Bono] In between tours,
while Larry was injured,
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and Adam was off making an art film...
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♪ I am coming home ♪
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...Edge and I asked David Letterman
to Dublin to talk about our songs.
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[Bono] Two, three, four.
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["Invisible" playing]
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And there was certainly a part of me
that wanted to hear them again,
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{\an8}as if for the first time.
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And we ask ourselves the nervous question,
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"Is there any merit to these songs
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if you take away the firepower
of a rock band like U2?"
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- Hold on. [echoes]
- [music stops]
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Technical, bit of a dropdown.
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[crew] Okay.
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[Bono] I don't know how
we're gonna lift this. Can we try it?
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♪ There is no them ♪
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Bam!
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You know, just to lift it up a bit.
That's good.
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[singers] ♪ There is no them ♪
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[singer] Oh, sorry.
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[Edge] There you go.
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♪ There is no them ♪
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♪ There is no them ♪
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♪ There's only us ♪
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♪ There's only us ♪
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The arpeggiating thing.
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It might work for you to tickle
your instrument as it were.
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Beautiful.
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♪ There is no them ♪
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When everything's died down...
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♪ There's only us ♪
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♪ There's only you and me ♪
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[singers] ♪ There's only us ♪
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♪ Me and you ♪
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♪ There is no them ♪
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And all of you,
when you're singing at the end,
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make it a kinda almost an aura, you know?
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♪ There's only us ♪
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- [Bono] Great.
- [applause]
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[musician] What a room!
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It sounds really beautiful,
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and we got "His Dave-ness" to Dublin.
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[person] Where-- Where is Dave?
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Holy geez! They're still alive.
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- Oh, David Letterman!
- David.
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- Hello, men.
- Hello.
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Hi.
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- Hi. How are you?
- Hello. How are you?
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How about this?
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- [baker] Oh, yeah. Wow.
- [Letterman] Wow.
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- [fan] It's your first time here?
- It's my first time in Dublin.
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My first time out of the house,
as a matter of fact.
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Tell us a little bit
about this establishment.
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[shop owner] InDub Reggae Store.
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- The only reggae shop in Ireland.
- The only reggae shop?
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Yeah, the only reggae shop in Ireland.
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I'm interested in a wheel of cheese.
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I've never purchased a wheel of cheese.
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{\an8}I would like to buy two hats
for friends of mine.
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- All right.
- Their heads are...
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One's about like this,
and one's about like that.
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[laughs]
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Is there anyone here that can help
an old man carrying a cheese?
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[tour guide] I'd like to welcome you
all today to the U2 walking tour.
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There are certain bands,
when I listen to them,
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I just see streetscapes open up before me.
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And Dublin and U2 is deeply connected.
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{\an8}In October '77, a great British punk band
called The Clash played two gigs
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{\an8}in the Examinations Hall
of Trinity College, Dublin.
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And in the crowd was a young,
impressionable Bono.
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Seeing The Clash onstage
singing these angry songs
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was a moment of awakening.
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Later on, when they're arguably
the biggest band in the world,
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they never really forget
this part of Dublin,
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and everything it does for them.
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I-I was told there would be a hot meal.
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[laughs]
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[Letterman] Let's, uh, go back.
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- Exactly what you don't wanna do.
- [both laugh]
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How old were you kids
when you got together and, uh...
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So in '76, I would've been, uh, 15.
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[Letterman] Fifteen?
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[Bono] That.
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At age 11,
I went to that school for one year.
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They asked me to leave.
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Had they not have,
I would not have met this man.
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- Really?
- This is true.
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[Letterman] Tell me about
your relationship with the band.
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When did that begin?
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{\an8}[Corbijn] February, '82.
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{\an8}- [Letterman] You became close with them?
- Close enough.
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[both laugh]
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Make sure you got some sun on your faces.
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Yeah, you're all about shadows,
aren't you?
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[Letterman]
But you are part of the family.
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H-Have you seen them, obviously, change
over the years since you've met them?
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Um, they're the same people, you know?
I-I have to say.
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- [crew] Move in.
- Okay, the Edge.
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This is your calendar shot.
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[laughs]
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[Bono] ♪ Monday morning ♪
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♪ Eighteen years of dawning ♪
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♪ I said, "How long?" ♪
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♪ I say, "How long?" ♪
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♪ It was one... ♪
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[Bono] I'd say the band
was born out of the culture
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of a particular high school
at a particular time.
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{\an8}♪ I was so glad ♪
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{\an8}[Bono]
It was a social experiment in our country.
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It's-- It's non-denominational,
people of any religion can come,
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and, more importantly to me,
girls and boys.
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{\an8}♪ Boys and girls
They go to school ♪
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♪ And girls can make children ♪
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♪ Well, not like this one ♪
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We invented a whole culture
of our own amongst our friends.
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We called ourselves Lypton Village.
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I can't remember why.
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And in Lypton Village, all our friends
were given their own unique nicknames.
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That's where I got the name "the Edge."
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[Letterman] Mm-hmm.
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[Edge] Bono's Village name
was "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street."
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- The-The hearing-aid store?
- [Edge] Right.
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And this was part of a pushback
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against the conservative society
that we were a part of.
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[Bono vocalizing]
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{\an8}- [Letterman] So here we have the Edge.
- [Edge] Yeah.
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{\an8}- [Letterman] Bono.
- Mm-hmm.
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{\an8}- [Letterman] Then we have Adam.
- Mm-hmm.
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{\an8}[Letterman] And we have Larry.
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When you hear what
their original Village names were,
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you would understand why
they didn't run with them.
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So, Larry's was--
He was known as "The Jam Jar."
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[Letterman] The Jam Jar?
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[Edge] Adam was "Mrs. Burns."
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[laughs]
The bass player is called "Mrs. Burns."
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- [Edge] Yeah.
- Ah!
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[Bono] ♪ We got spirit, we got soul ♪
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♪ My brothers and I are out of control ♪
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[Edge] We had no aspirations beyond
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just something fun to do
on a Saturday afternoon.
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But then, weirdly,
as we started to play together,
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and at first atrociously badly,
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we recognized some chemistry there.
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My, uh, nickname, "Dumbass."
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{\an8}- Yeah.
- [both laugh]
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[bell chiming]
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{\an8}[Letterman] You and I last saw
one another in the early aughts.
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{\an8}[Hansard] The early aughts.
We were on doing your show.
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{\an8}Our next guests are a pair
of talented singer-songwriters
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who star in the motion picture Once...
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In those days, I don't think
you and I talked much of anything
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other than here he is,
and thank you and good night.
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Yeah, you stuck your head into the room.
We said a quick hello.
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- [laughs]
- It was a big deal.
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Other than that,
we were all told, "Avoid David."
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- And don't look me in the eye.
- That's what we were told, yeah.
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Hi, Glen. That was beautiful. Excuse me.
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Your eyes, by the way,
stunningly beautiful.
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Oh, thank you, David.
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Uh, explain where we are.
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We're in Dublin.
Well, we're in Greystones.
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So we're on the kind of southern edge
of the "swerve of shore bend of bay."
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- To quote Joyce. We're in-- Yeah.
- Hmm.
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Oh, you've been here less than a minute,
and you're quoting Joyce.
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- [laughs]
- Good Lord.
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You know, I'm meeting you.
I have to impress you with the Irishness.
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[Letterman] We're gonna talk
about your buddies, U2.
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[Hansard] Yeah. Well,
I've known them pretty much all my life.
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When I was ten years old,
my uncle took me to see the Police,
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but the opening band was U2.
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[Bono vocalizing]
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- [laughing] Oh, my God.
- [Hansard] Yeah. Yeah.
242
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And everyone, the whole, like--
243
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This guy came onstage
and he was like-- he was possessed.
244
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- Everybody left going, "Who were they?"
- Mm-hmm.
245
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And they were Irish. They were Dubliners.
246
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They were from the same town I'm from.
247
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And so we all became obsessed.
248
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["I Will Follow" playing]
249
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{\an8}It didn't sound like anything else.
250
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{\an8}Not just in Ireland, but anything else we
were hearing from America or from Britain.
251
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U2 were completely different.
252
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♪ I was on the outside when you said ♪
253
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♪ You said you needed me ♪
254
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So not just America, uh, but globally,
255
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why do people respond, uh,
emotionally to this music?
256
00:13:14,251 --> 00:13:18,297
Well, the first time you heard
"I Will Follow" on the radio,
257
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at that time
where everything was trying to show
258
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how much you were against everything,
259
00:13:21,884 --> 00:13:28,933
you know, U2 was trying to express
something with this force of sincerity.
260
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They had a purpose and they had
an earnestness in their music
261
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that you could easily dismiss.
262
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Because Bono was just-- He was like, uh,
he was strident with something pure.
263
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♪ Why, oh, why? ♪
264
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The first album was made--
I would've been 18.
265
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So we were kids, really,
when we started on it.
266
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[Letterman] Did you have a vision
for your future at all,
267
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or was it day-to-day, week-to-week?
268
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It was about our concerts
and about, you know, the U2 audience live
269
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that gave us a constant sense of
moving up and moving forward.
270
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[Hansard] It was a complete game changer.
271
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U2 kind of cleared the decks.
272
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Like, any bands that were going,
U2 were suddenly, boom.
273
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♪ I was looking through the window
I was lost ♪
274
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Nobody ever would've
thought that U2 would be the band.
275
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Because they were, kind of, just, like,
awkward and--
276
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But they had something.
They had a kind of a--
277
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They had a message in their songs.
278
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[music ends]
279
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Thank you. God bless you.
280
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[crowd cheering]
281
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[Letterman]
Wanna go see a U2 show tomorrow?
282
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There's a, uh, free U2 show.
283
00:14:44,091 --> 00:14:45,175
- [tourist] Oh.
- Yeah.
284
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Are you familiar with the band U2?
285
00:14:47,219 --> 00:14:49,388
- Yes. Yes.
- Have you ever seen them live?
286
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Uh, not live, believe it or not.
287
00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:53,684
- They're doing a show in town here.
- Yeah. Yeah.
288
00:14:53,684 --> 00:14:55,060
- Tomorrow night.
- [store owner] Yeah.
289
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You should come to the show.
290
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Just mention my name and you'll get in.
291
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Just say, uh,
"Dave said it would be okay if I came."
292
00:15:02,568 --> 00:15:04,403
Yeah, okay. I'd love to.
That'd be a pleasure.
293
00:15:04,403 --> 00:15:07,114
Yeah, you should--
For God's sake, you should go. Yes.
294
00:15:07,114 --> 00:15:09,491
- [tour guide laughs]
- My work here is finished.
295
00:15:09,491 --> 00:15:12,244
But I think what's interesting now is
that I think there's--
296
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they're going back to the beginning again.
297
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[ticking]
298
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[Iovine] Your biggest competition
is wanting to be safe.
299
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{\an8}It feels really good
to sell 20 million albums,
300
00:15:22,796 --> 00:15:24,715
{\an8}or whatever the heck it is.
301
00:15:24,715 --> 00:15:27,217
{\an8}And you know what that sounds like.
302
00:15:27,217 --> 00:15:31,388
But to say, "No, we're gonna change it.
303
00:15:31,388 --> 00:15:33,641
And we're gonna bring
our audience with us."
304
00:15:33,641 --> 00:15:37,227
- [sighs]
- How do you sing this warm-up, the Edge?
305
00:15:38,395 --> 00:15:39,605
Uh, let me guess.
306
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[both humming, vocalizing]
307
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Your biggest foe there
is your fear of moving forward.
308
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[stammers]
309
00:15:49,239 --> 00:15:52,159
See, the problem with these is
they don't tell you where to go.
310
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Oh, we'll find our way.
311
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,121
- Don't you worry.
- [both laugh]
312
00:16:04,588 --> 00:16:06,298
{\an8}This is a bit of a day, isn't it?
313
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Lovely.
314
00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:10,386
[concertgoers chattering]
315
00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,182
- Yeah. Seeing them for the first time.
- [laughs]
316
00:16:16,517 --> 00:16:17,935
- What a venue.
- Yes.
317
00:16:17,935 --> 00:16:19,395
- [person] Fantastic.
- Yeah, yeah.
318
00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:22,439
Is everything you do still
within your comfort zone?
319
00:16:22,439 --> 00:16:24,024
Rarely.
320
00:16:24,024 --> 00:16:26,485
Yeah, the-- I'm rarely in my comfort zone.
321
00:16:26,485 --> 00:16:28,737
And I think that's been difficult
for the band,
322
00:16:28,737 --> 00:16:30,614
because I don't let them be in it either.
323
00:16:32,574 --> 00:16:37,997
For me, music and songwriting is just,
you know, heart surgery.
324
00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:41,083
[applause, cheers]
325
00:16:47,631 --> 00:16:48,632
[Letterman] Oh, no.
326
00:16:49,591 --> 00:16:50,592
Thank you very much.
327
00:16:53,512 --> 00:16:54,847
Thank you.
328
00:16:54,847 --> 00:16:57,725
Do we have an idea
of what we're in for tonight?
329
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You will be very, very happy
you did have this experience.
330
00:17:04,898 --> 00:17:06,066
Are you ready?
331
00:17:07,401 --> 00:17:09,611
Bono and the Edge.
332
00:17:09,611 --> 00:17:11,697
[crowd cheering]
333
00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:13,490
["Vertigo" playing]
334
00:17:23,459 --> 00:17:24,585
[crowd member] Yeah!
335
00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:26,837
♪ Lights go down ♪
336
00:17:26,837 --> 00:17:28,005
♪ It's dark ♪
337
00:17:28,005 --> 00:17:31,258
♪ The jungle is your head
Can't rule your heart ♪
338
00:17:31,258 --> 00:17:34,219
♪ A feeling so much stronger
Than a thought ♪
339
00:17:34,219 --> 00:17:35,304
♪ Your eyes are wide ♪
340
00:17:35,304 --> 00:17:37,556
♪ And though your soul
It can't be bought ♪
341
00:17:37,556 --> 00:17:39,266
♪ Your mind can wander ♪
342
00:17:39,767 --> 00:17:41,894
♪ Hello, hello ♪
343
00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:43,020
♪ Hola! ♪
344
00:17:43,020 --> 00:17:45,355
♪ We're at a place called Vertigo ♪
345
00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:46,440
♪ Dónde está? ♪
346
00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,692
♪ It's everything I wish I didn't know ♪
347
00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:54,782
♪ You give me something I can feel ♪
348
00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:56,950
Yeah!
349
00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:02,206
♪ The night is full of holes ♪
350
00:18:02,206 --> 00:18:05,417
♪ As bullets rip the sky
Of ink with gold ♪
351
00:18:05,417 --> 00:18:08,504
♪ They sparkle as the boys
Play rock and roll ♪
352
00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:10,631
♪ They know that they can't dance ♪
353
00:18:10,631 --> 00:18:12,341
♪ At least they know ♪
354
00:18:12,341 --> 00:18:14,009
♪ I can't stand the beats ♪
355
00:18:14,009 --> 00:18:16,011
♪ I'm asking for the check ♪
356
00:18:16,011 --> 00:18:18,931
♪ Girl with crimson nails
Got Jesus around her neck ♪
357
00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:20,933
♪ Swinging to the music ♪
358
00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:22,851
♪ Swinging to the music ♪
359
00:18:22,851 --> 00:18:24,103
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
360
00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:26,271
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
361
00:18:26,271 --> 00:18:27,606
♪ Ah ♪
362
00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:29,274
♪ Hello, hello ♪
363
00:18:29,858 --> 00:18:30,859
♪ Hola! ♪
364
00:18:30,859 --> 00:18:33,153
♪ Yeah, a place called Vertigo ♪
365
00:18:33,153 --> 00:18:34,238
♪ Dónde está? ♪
366
00:18:34,238 --> 00:18:37,157
♪ It's everything I wish I didn't know ♪
367
00:18:37,157 --> 00:18:43,330
♪ You give me something I can feel ♪
368
00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:47,709
♪ Feel ♪
369
00:18:49,711 --> 00:18:55,134
♪ Dime con quién andas
Y te diré quién eres ♪
370
00:18:56,552 --> 00:18:57,970
♪ Entendemos? ♪
371
00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:01,723
♪ Entendemos? ♪
372
00:19:15,404 --> 00:19:16,655
♪ Oh, yes ♪
373
00:19:18,699 --> 00:19:19,950
♪ All of this ♪
374
00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:21,910
♪ All of this can be yours ♪
375
00:19:21,910 --> 00:19:23,453
♪ All this ♪
376
00:19:23,453 --> 00:19:25,289
♪ All of this can be yours ♪
377
00:19:25,289 --> 00:19:30,335
♪ Just give me what I want
And no one gets hurt ♪
378
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,215
♪ Hello, hello ♪
379
00:19:35,215 --> 00:19:36,300
♪ Hola! ♪
380
00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,594
♪ We're at a place called Vertigo ♪
381
00:19:38,594 --> 00:19:39,678
[Edge]
♪ Dónde está? ♪
382
00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:42,389
♪ It's everything I wish I didn't know ♪
383
00:19:42,389 --> 00:19:45,475
♪ But you give me something ♪
384
00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:50,230
♪ I can feel your love teaching me how ♪
385
00:19:50,230 --> 00:19:53,317
♪ How, how ♪
386
00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:57,362
♪ Your love is teaching me how ♪
387
00:19:59,156 --> 00:20:01,408
♪ How to kneel ♪
388
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,620
♪ Kneel ♪
389
00:20:06,580 --> 00:20:10,500
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
390
00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:14,671
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
391
00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:17,216
[crowd cheering]
392
00:20:25,182 --> 00:20:26,516
[bell chimes]
393
00:20:26,516 --> 00:20:32,522
The genesis of the band is always linked
with religious, Christian influence.
394
00:20:32,522 --> 00:20:34,149
To me that sounds unusual.
395
00:20:34,149 --> 00:20:37,402
When you compare it to the United States
with a rock-and-roll band,
396
00:20:37,402 --> 00:20:41,240
it's kids smoking weed in their garage
and wanting to meet girls.
397
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,200
- We'll get to that.
- [laughs]
398
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,118
Is that because of Ireland?
399
00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:48,497
Well, I should draw you a map.
400
00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:50,791
Okay, so...
401
00:20:50,791 --> 00:20:54,044
Just give me a second
till I get a rough Ireland for you.
402
00:20:54,044 --> 00:20:55,629
Okay, that's close enough.
403
00:20:55,629 --> 00:20:58,840
So we live on a tiny island
in the North Sea,
404
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,261
brutalized by occasional bad weather
and some difficult neighbors.
405
00:21:03,178 --> 00:21:06,014
And in the country of Northern Ireland,
406
00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:10,852
the Northern Protestants
outnumbered the Catholics.
407
00:21:10,852 --> 00:21:13,105
What caused the border to be established?
408
00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:15,274
[Bono] Our War of Independence.
409
00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:16,817
So who do I dislike in this?
410
00:21:16,817 --> 00:21:19,486
- I'm-- I'm eager to dislike somebody.
- [chuckles]
411
00:21:19,486 --> 00:21:20,862
I'm part of the great divide.
412
00:21:20,862 --> 00:21:22,906
I wanna dislike--
Shall I dislike the British?
413
00:21:22,906 --> 00:21:24,825
- No. No.
- Okay.
414
00:21:24,825 --> 00:21:27,035
- Whoever you don't like, I don't like.
- [laughs]
415
00:21:27,035 --> 00:21:30,289
So chief among the differences here
still would be the religion?
416
00:21:30,289 --> 00:21:31,373
[Bono] Well, yeah.
417
00:21:33,333 --> 00:21:36,837
{\an8}[Edge] When we were kids,
we were in the middle of the Troubles.
418
00:21:36,837 --> 00:21:41,174
[broadcaster] British troops, called to
break up a protest, killed 13 Catholics.
419
00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:45,887
It was just a constant drip, drip, drip
when we were forming the band.
420
00:21:47,055 --> 00:21:51,059
[Bono] So, we were looking for a way
to express our faith
421
00:21:51,059 --> 00:21:52,769
that wasn't obviously religious.
422
00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:57,899
And there was a kind of movement
in Ireland in the late '70s,
423
00:21:58,692 --> 00:22:00,861
uh, which was called Charismatic Renewal.
424
00:22:02,112 --> 00:22:04,448
And we met some religious people.
425
00:22:04,448 --> 00:22:06,950
They'd no possessions, particularly.
426
00:22:06,950 --> 00:22:08,785
They lived a very disciplined life.
427
00:22:08,785 --> 00:22:10,704
We thought they were
a bit punk-rock actually.
428
00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:14,416
And they seemed to accept us
for who we are.
429
00:22:14,916 --> 00:22:19,171
But they'd, kind of, started to become
much more like a conventional church.
430
00:22:19,171 --> 00:22:22,466
And it was then that the leadership,
sort of, came to us and said,
431
00:22:22,466 --> 00:22:26,803
"Look, you should be full-time for God,
not this rock-and-roll thing."
432
00:22:27,429 --> 00:22:29,681
Music was just something
that we had to give up
433
00:22:29,681 --> 00:22:33,769
because these people felt
rock and roll was kind of nonsense.
434
00:22:34,478 --> 00:22:37,939
And that the real job
was fixing a broken world.
435
00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,443
And Edge was in some kind of--
436
00:22:42,694 --> 00:22:43,945
Yeah, agony.
437
00:22:44,571 --> 00:22:48,325
So it was taken that seriously that
it might actually put an end to the band.
438
00:22:48,325 --> 00:22:49,409
[Edge] Yeah.
439
00:22:49,409 --> 00:22:54,915
Because if we are to be useful,
as it were, in music, well, what is--
440
00:22:54,915 --> 00:22:56,416
How's that gonna look?
441
00:22:57,042 --> 00:23:03,507
So I spent this couple of weeks really
trying to figure out what felt right.
442
00:23:05,050 --> 00:23:06,802
It was still nagging at us,
443
00:23:06,802 --> 00:23:11,640
and the actual answer came in the shape
444
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,351
of a song that Edge started.
445
00:23:14,351 --> 00:23:18,146
["Sunday Bloody Sunday" playing]
446
00:23:18,855 --> 00:23:23,693
[Edge] And then on one particular day,
this rage poured out.
447
00:23:23,693 --> 00:23:28,031
[chuckles] This frustration
at not being able to write,
448
00:23:28,031 --> 00:23:30,534
not knowing
if I should be in a rock-and-roll band.
449
00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:34,204
Um, what the future might hold.
450
00:23:34,204 --> 00:23:35,956
How old were you at this point?
451
00:23:35,956 --> 00:23:37,124
Maybe 21.
452
00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:40,669
♪ Can't believe the news today ♪
453
00:23:43,338 --> 00:23:47,426
♪ I can't close my eyes
And make it go away ♪
454
00:23:48,510 --> 00:23:49,886
This was alchemy.
455
00:23:49,886 --> 00:23:52,222
And I was watching it.
I'm standing beside it.
456
00:23:52,806 --> 00:23:58,979
I saw this transformation of internal rage
to external.
457
00:24:00,313 --> 00:24:05,068
♪ How long?
How long must we sing this song? ♪
458
00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:10,532
♪ How long?
How long? ♪
459
00:24:12,325 --> 00:24:17,873
♪ Tonight
We can be as one ♪
460
00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:19,791
♪ Tonight ♪
461
00:24:21,084 --> 00:24:24,212
And I was like, "Phew!
Ah, that's why I'm in a band."
462
00:24:24,212 --> 00:24:26,298
- [Letterman] Yeah.
-"That's why I'm with this dude."
463
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,301
- And that song, "Sunday Bloody Sunday,"
- [Letterman] Yeah.
464
00:24:29,301 --> 00:24:35,390
it was a way to feel our music could mean
something outside of just itself.
465
00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:41,396
{\an8}["Sunday Bloody Sunday" playing]
466
00:24:41,396 --> 00:24:43,773
[crowd cheering]
467
00:24:43,773 --> 00:24:48,028
We got this broadcast on RTÉ
of U2 at Red Rocks.
468
00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:49,237
Oh, yes.
469
00:24:49,237 --> 00:24:52,157
♪ Mmm, oh, oh ♪
470
00:24:52,157 --> 00:24:55,202
You could tell from the beginning,
they were trying to go stratospheric.
471
00:24:55,202 --> 00:24:56,536
♪ Give it up! ♪
472
00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:06,046
[Hansard] So here's a guy
singing about Catholics and Protestants
473
00:25:06,046 --> 00:25:08,548
in the north of Ireland, in America.
474
00:25:09,508 --> 00:25:15,972
U2 had gone and made our case
in front of millions of Americans.
475
00:25:15,972 --> 00:25:19,059
And we were getting to see it on TV,
and we were gobsmacked.
476
00:25:19,059 --> 00:25:20,894
[Bono] ♪ Sing, "No more" ♪
477
00:25:21,603 --> 00:25:23,980
-♪ No more ♪
- [crowd] ♪ No more ♪
478
00:25:23,980 --> 00:25:26,107
-♪ No more ♪
- [crowd] ♪ No more ♪
479
00:25:26,107 --> 00:25:28,360
-♪ No more ♪
- [crowd] ♪ No more ♪
480
00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:30,529
-♪ No more ♪
- [crowd] ♪ No more ♪
481
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:34,449
♪ No more
Wipe your tears away ♪
482
00:25:35,867 --> 00:25:38,954
♪ Wipe your tears away ♪
483
00:25:40,288 --> 00:25:44,626
-♪ Wipe your bloodshot eyes ♪
- [Edge] ♪ Sunday Bloody Sunday ♪
484
00:25:44,626 --> 00:25:46,294
♪ Wipe your tears away ♪
485
00:25:46,294 --> 00:25:48,922
- [O'Toole] Because it becomes a hymn...
- [Letterman] Yeah.
486
00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:53,426
...a hymn of despair,
of-- of-- of-- of yearning...
487
00:25:53,426 --> 00:25:54,886
[Bono] ♪ Sunday Bloody Sunday ♪
488
00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:58,765
[O'Toole] ...just even expressing that,
even though it's a pretty bleak thought,
489
00:25:58,765 --> 00:26:04,312
giving it expression gives people
a lot of courage and-- and consolation.
490
00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:07,148
♪ I'm so sick of it ♪
491
00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:14,948
So right now, we've got peace in Ireland.
492
00:26:15,532 --> 00:26:17,534
Eventually, I don't know when it will be,
493
00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:20,787
I hope it's in my lifetime,
when the border goes away,
494
00:26:20,787 --> 00:26:25,709
because it's kind of ridiculous
having a border on an island this size.
495
00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:30,338
And the north and the south will hopefully
have more respect for each other.
496
00:26:31,047 --> 00:26:32,132
That would be nice.
497
00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:39,681
Before it was a cinema, this was
part of Rotunda Hospital, this very room.
498
00:26:40,557 --> 00:26:42,434
I was born here. Yes, I was.
499
00:26:43,310 --> 00:26:44,394
Brendan Behan said,
500
00:26:44,394 --> 00:26:47,606
"If you weren't born in the Rotunda,
you weren't a proper Dubliner."
501
00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:49,316
- [crowd laughs, cheers]
- There you go.
502
00:26:50,984 --> 00:26:55,447
This next song is the first song,
really, we wrote about Dublin.
503
00:26:55,447 --> 00:27:01,953
In the '70s, it was a very different
Dublin than it is today.
504
00:27:01,953 --> 00:27:03,830
A very different country.
505
00:27:03,830 --> 00:27:05,165
Uh, very bad.
506
00:27:05,165 --> 00:27:06,916
And we called the song, "Bad."
507
00:27:07,542 --> 00:27:09,544
["Bad" playing]
508
00:27:25,977 --> 00:27:32,567
♪ If I twist and turn away ♪
509
00:27:35,278 --> 00:27:42,243
♪ If I tear myself in two again ♪
510
00:27:44,412 --> 00:27:48,416
♪ If I could
You know I would ♪
511
00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:50,001
♪ If I could ♪
512
00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:52,671
♪ I would ♪
513
00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:54,297
♪ Let it go ♪
514
00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,511
♪ Surrender ♪
515
00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:04,140
♪ This is a song of surrender ♪
516
00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:06,976
[Letterman] Could any of this
have happened anywhere but Dublin?
517
00:28:06,976 --> 00:28:09,979
Not just because you knew each other,
but Dublin.
518
00:28:09,979 --> 00:28:14,651
We're around as Ireland moves
from black-and-white into color.
519
00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:19,155
♪ If I could throw this lifeless lifeline
To the wind ♪
520
00:28:19,906 --> 00:28:22,075
[Bono]
The country was trying to identify itself.
521
00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:23,660
Who are we?
522
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:27,122
Are we buying this myth
that we've been sold?
523
00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:29,624
Or are we gonna be
something more extraordinary?
524
00:28:29,624 --> 00:28:31,918
♪ Into the light ♪
525
00:28:31,918 --> 00:28:37,257
And that's what all four members of U2
had in common with the country.
526
00:28:38,299 --> 00:28:42,762
♪ You can only have it all ♪
527
00:28:43,471 --> 00:28:47,559
♪ If you give it all away ♪
528
00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:51,813
♪ You can only have it all ♪
529
00:28:52,772 --> 00:28:57,193
♪ If you give it all away ♪
530
00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:02,240
♪ Hoo-hoo
Hoo-hoo ♪
531
00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:04,451
♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
532
00:29:07,662 --> 00:29:11,750
♪ Hoo-hoo
Hoo-hoo ♪
533
00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:13,752
♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
534
00:29:15,128 --> 00:29:18,298
♪ To let it go ♪
535
00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:23,303
♪ And so not to fade away ♪
536
00:29:24,471 --> 00:29:27,474
♪ To let it go ♪
537
00:29:29,142 --> 00:29:32,312
♪ And so not to fade away ♪
538
00:29:33,772 --> 00:29:37,609
♪ I'm wide awake ♪
539
00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:42,864
♪ I'm wide awake ♪
540
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:47,202
♪ Wide awake ♪
541
00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:50,413
♪ I'm not sleeping ♪
542
00:29:53,082 --> 00:29:54,167
♪ Oh, no ♪
543
00:29:57,420 --> 00:29:59,923
♪ I'm not sleeping ♪
544
00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:03,468
♪ Oh, no ♪
545
00:30:09,682 --> 00:30:12,685
[applause, cheers]
546
00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:18,608
You see, I wasn't wrong about this,
was I, folks? It's a wonderful night.
547
00:30:19,609 --> 00:30:22,987
By the way, do you know who's doing a show
tonight at Croke Park stadium?
548
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,949
- Adam and Larry.
- Oh!
549
00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:28,743
- [crowd laughs]
- Yeah. I hear-- I hear it's great.
550
00:30:28,743 --> 00:30:30,245
- That's good.
- I'm sure it is.
551
00:30:30,245 --> 00:30:31,496
[Letterman laughs]
552
00:30:31,496 --> 00:30:33,957
Let me ask you, uh,
a question about songwriting.
553
00:30:33,957 --> 00:30:36,084
When you're writing a song,
and you end up with...
554
00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:38,753
♪ Hoo-hoo
Hoo-hoo ♪
555
00:30:38,753 --> 00:30:39,838
[crowd laughs]
556
00:30:39,838 --> 00:30:42,257
- Who-- Who provided that inspiration?
- [crowd laughs]
557
00:30:42,257 --> 00:30:45,718
Bec-- I'm telling you, it's lovely,
but who says, "Okay, here's where you do"...
558
00:30:45,718 --> 00:30:47,720
♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
559
00:30:48,346 --> 00:30:51,516
We like to ask the big questions,
so we start with "who?"
560
00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:52,600
[Letterman] Uh-huh.
561
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:53,977
And we eventually get to "why."
562
00:30:53,977 --> 00:30:57,063
- So, we'll hear "why-why" later?
- [Bono] Yeah.
563
00:30:57,063 --> 00:30:59,899
- And "when" is coming.
- [Letterman laughs]
564
00:30:59,899 --> 00:31:02,527
- That's a full night, isn't it, folks?
- [crowd cheering]
565
00:31:05,238 --> 00:31:10,326
Going back to the "why" of U2,
you gotta stay with the "why."
566
00:31:11,369 --> 00:31:14,122
And I think the band
are on the same page in this one.
567
00:31:15,331 --> 00:31:19,335
Yeah, they wanted to entertain,
but they didn't want to just entertain.
568
00:31:19,961 --> 00:31:21,546
They wanted to do something great.
569
00:31:22,171 --> 00:31:26,551
Something that spiritually
affected people.
570
00:31:27,635 --> 00:31:29,429
And that's the "why."
571
00:31:29,429 --> 00:31:31,514
["Where the Streets Have No Name" playing]
572
00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:48,990
[Edge]
We grew up as a band on a live stage.
573
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:51,784
That's-- That's how we learned
to do what we do.
574
00:31:51,784 --> 00:31:55,872
And "Where the Streets Have No Name,"
when I wrote the music,
575
00:31:55,872 --> 00:32:01,377
I set myself the specific,
sort of, thought exercise of,
576
00:32:01,377 --> 00:32:04,714
-"What would I want to listen to"...
- Mm-hmm.
577
00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:06,549
..."if I was in the audience?"
578
00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:08,968
What would blow me away?
579
00:32:08,968 --> 00:32:10,136
Uh, please do it again
580
00:32:10,136 --> 00:32:13,681
because this is an experience
I'll never get again in my life, so--
581
00:32:13,681 --> 00:32:15,767
["Where the Streets Have No Name" playing]
582
00:32:34,327 --> 00:32:38,873
[Bono] "Where the Streets Have No Name"
is an unusual brew of a song.
583
00:32:38,873 --> 00:32:42,919
The lyric is not very fleshed out.
584
00:32:42,919 --> 00:32:47,173
But the suggestion
contained in the lyric is gigantic.
585
00:32:48,424 --> 00:32:51,594
And what it seems to suggest is,
586
00:32:51,594 --> 00:32:55,848
there's a transcendent place
we can go to together.
587
00:32:55,848 --> 00:32:56,933
Do you want to come?
588
00:33:01,896 --> 00:33:03,982
♪ I wanna run ♪
589
00:33:05,608 --> 00:33:08,236
♪ I want to hide ♪
590
00:33:09,529 --> 00:33:16,119
♪ I wanna tear down the walls
That hold me inside ♪
591
00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:22,875
♪ I wanna reach out
And touch the flame ♪
592
00:33:24,836 --> 00:33:28,673
♪ Where the streets have no name ♪
593
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:32,468
Our band is a chemistry set.
594
00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:34,637
♪ Where the streets have no name ♪
595
00:33:34,637 --> 00:33:37,140
Chemical reaction
between our audience and us.
596
00:33:37,765 --> 00:33:40,059
That's what makes a good band great.
597
00:33:40,059 --> 00:33:44,981
♪ Still building and burning down love ♪
598
00:33:44,981 --> 00:33:47,567
♪ Burning down love ♪
599
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:51,571
♪ And when I go there ♪
600
00:33:51,571 --> 00:33:55,158
♪ I go there with you ♪
601
00:33:55,158 --> 00:33:58,161
♪ It's all I can do ♪
602
00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:05,293
[crowd cheering]
603
00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:10,173
E-Explain to me the connection between
"Where the Streets Have No Name"
604
00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:15,053
to Super Bowl XXXVI, six months
after the September 11th attack.
605
00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:21,976
I recall grappling with
the concept of America,
606
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,396
and what it meant to me
and what it might mean around the world.
607
00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:27,940
Um, and that this is a fragile moment.
608
00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:31,027
{\an8}[crowd cheering]
609
00:34:33,112 --> 00:34:36,365
{\an8}- [Bono] I wanted to use some exhortation...
- [Letterman] Mm-hmm.
610
00:34:36,365 --> 00:34:38,451
{\an8}...taking away normal spectacle,
611
00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:42,413
{\an8}and turning it into a monument
of rolling names.
612
00:34:43,790 --> 00:34:46,125
{\an8}The Super Bowl halftimes are a spectacle.
613
00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:51,380
{\an8}But the greatest spectacles are emotions.
614
00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:52,465
[crowd cheering]
615
00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:57,970
♪ Oh ♪
616
00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:08,189
[Letterman] I've come to understand
617
00:35:08,189 --> 00:35:12,276
the connection
about spirituality and religion.
618
00:35:12,276 --> 00:35:16,697
You-- You feel that, and it doesn't--
doesn't hit you over the head.
619
00:35:16,697 --> 00:35:19,200
But you-- It's palpable, for sure.
620
00:35:20,034 --> 00:35:25,039
♪ This is all we can do ♪
621
00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:28,918
Well, for me too. I wanna feel that.
622
00:35:28,918 --> 00:35:30,253
That's my drug of choice.
623
00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:35,174
Uh, the feeling of, not writing a song,
but being sung by the song.
624
00:35:35,174 --> 00:35:37,343
Sounds a little arty, but it's not--
625
00:35:37,343 --> 00:35:40,847
It's-- You do-- You feel it, um,
strongly coming through you.
626
00:35:41,430 --> 00:35:44,934
You know, and Brian Eno, who said to us,
627
00:35:46,018 --> 00:35:51,190
"You know, you should not be concerned
with things like being cool.
628
00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:52,942
That would be uncool for you.
629
00:35:52,942 --> 00:35:55,194
- Just be yourselves."
- Right.
630
00:35:55,194 --> 00:35:58,906
You know, and I-I look back now
and I realize that's U2's thing,
631
00:35:58,906 --> 00:36:00,408
ecstatic music.
632
00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:02,493
["Beautiful Day" playing]
633
00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:09,208
Because you're in that studio,
634
00:36:09,208 --> 00:36:13,337
you have to have the courage to jump off
the building and believe you can fly.
635
00:36:13,921 --> 00:36:15,548
♪ The heart is a bloom ♪
636
00:36:18,217 --> 00:36:21,012
♪ Shoots up through the stony ground ♪
637
00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:23,097
♪ But there's no room ♪
638
00:36:25,141 --> 00:36:28,186
♪ No space to rent in this town ♪
639
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,770
♪ You're out of luck ♪
640
00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:35,484
♪ And the reason that you had to care ♪
641
00:36:35,484 --> 00:36:37,570
♪ The traffic is stuck ♪
642
00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:42,116
♪ You're not moving anywhere ♪
643
00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:45,161
♪ You thought you'd found a friend ♪
644
00:36:46,829 --> 00:36:50,041
♪ To take you out of this place ♪
645
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:54,295
♪ Someone you could lend a hand ♪
646
00:36:54,295 --> 00:36:56,881
♪ In return for grace ♪
647
00:36:56,881 --> 00:37:00,968
♪ It's a beautiful day ♪
648
00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:07,433
♪ Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day ♪
649
00:37:07,433 --> 00:37:10,853
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
650
00:37:11,562 --> 00:37:12,647
♪ You're on the road ♪
651
00:37:15,816 --> 00:37:18,903
♪ But you got no destination ♪
652
00:37:18,903 --> 00:37:20,613
♪ You're in the mud ♪
653
00:37:22,990 --> 00:37:25,826
♪ In the maze of her imagination ♪
654
00:37:25,826 --> 00:37:28,037
♪ You love this town ♪
655
00:37:30,957 --> 00:37:33,459
♪ Even if that doesn't ring true ♪
656
00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:35,920
♪ You've been all over ♪
657
00:37:37,546 --> 00:37:40,216
♪ And it's been all over you ♪
658
00:37:40,216 --> 00:37:44,679
-♪ It's a beautiful day ♪
- [Edge] ♪ Day ♪
659
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:47,598
♪ Don't let it get away ♪
660
00:37:47,598 --> 00:37:52,144
-♪ It's a beautiful day ♪
-♪ Day ♪
661
00:37:52,144 --> 00:37:54,897
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
662
00:37:55,815 --> 00:37:58,150
♪ Touch me now ♪
663
00:37:59,443 --> 00:38:01,696
♪ Take me to that other place ♪
664
00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:05,825
♪ Teach me love ♪
665
00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:08,953
♪ I know I'm not a hopeless case ♪
666
00:38:10,329 --> 00:38:11,914
[Hansard] That's what's interesting.
667
00:38:11,914 --> 00:38:13,791
When did the tongue go into the cheek?
668
00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:15,876
'Cause I think that's what saved U2.
669
00:38:15,876 --> 00:38:18,462
And they kinda got the rock-star thing,
670
00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:21,299
and the humor entered
what they were doing.
671
00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:22,883
Because they were the pilgrims.
672
00:38:22,883 --> 00:38:26,345
They were the guys going to America
with a Christian's mind-set,
673
00:38:26,345 --> 00:38:28,681
and suddenly they were the rock stars.
674
00:38:28,681 --> 00:38:32,018
Suddenly they were on a different train,
and it really worked.
675
00:38:32,685 --> 00:38:35,730
♪ See the bird with a leaf in her mouth ♪
676
00:38:35,730 --> 00:38:39,692
♪ After the flood
All the colors came out ♪
677
00:38:39,692 --> 00:38:43,029
[Edge] ♪ Day ♪
678
00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:45,031
♪ Day ♪
679
00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:49,118
-♪ It was a beautiful day ♪
- [Edge] ♪ Day ♪
680
00:38:49,952 --> 00:38:52,038
♪ Don't let it get away ♪
681
00:38:52,788 --> 00:38:57,335
-♪ A beautiful day ♪
-♪ Day ♪
682
00:38:57,335 --> 00:38:59,920
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
683
00:39:00,755 --> 00:39:03,257
♪ Touch me now ♪
684
00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:06,802
♪ Take me to that other place ♪
685
00:39:08,304 --> 00:39:11,057
♪ Reach me ♪
686
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,018
♪ I know I'm not a hopeless case ♪
687
00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:19,023
♪ What you don't have
You don't need it now ♪
688
00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:22,443
♪ What you don't know
You can feel it somehow ♪
689
00:39:22,443 --> 00:39:26,447
♪ What you don't have
You don't need it now ♪
690
00:39:26,447 --> 00:39:31,994
♪ Don't need it now ♪
691
00:39:31,994 --> 00:39:33,829
[crowd cheering]
692
00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:47,968
{\an8}♪ How it must feel to be a bird ♪
693
00:39:50,054 --> 00:39:53,307
{\an8}[Letterman] I need help here
because Ireland is a young country.
694
00:39:53,307 --> 00:39:59,355
♪ Roaming lonely over sea air ♪
695
00:39:59,355 --> 00:40:03,442
And what I knew of Ireland growing up,
was it was controlled religiously.
696
00:40:03,442 --> 00:40:06,987
And then it changed,
and it changed quickly.
697
00:40:06,987 --> 00:40:08,781
How did it happen here?
698
00:40:08,781 --> 00:40:11,033
The world into which U2 are coming,
699
00:40:11,033 --> 00:40:14,829
is a society
which has been kind of liberalizing,
700
00:40:14,829 --> 00:40:16,872
but is now going back. [laughs] You know?
701
00:40:16,872 --> 00:40:20,334
It's-- It's getting cold feet about,
"Do we really wanna change?
702
00:40:20,334 --> 00:40:22,461
Do we really wanna become more modern?"
703
00:40:22,461 --> 00:40:27,383
[vocalizing]
704
00:40:27,383 --> 00:40:29,927
And this band comes
into the middle of that.
705
00:40:29,927 --> 00:40:32,888
And I think they formed a, kind of,
critical bridge...
706
00:40:32,888 --> 00:40:37,601
[singer vocalizing]
707
00:40:37,601 --> 00:40:40,771
{\an8}...from being a conservative society
to being the place it is now,
708
00:40:40,771 --> 00:40:42,940
{\an8}which is a very open and tolerant society.
709
00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:49,822
Oh, my God. Are those real diamonds?
710
00:40:49,822 --> 00:40:51,449
- [drag queen laughs]
- Holy God.
711
00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:53,242
- [drag queen] Dave, Dave.
- [Letterman] Oh!
712
00:40:53,242 --> 00:40:55,453
You can't leave the building with those.
713
00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:58,164
{\an8}Dressing like a woman makes
a lot of money in this culture.
714
00:40:58,164 --> 00:40:59,582
{\an8}[Letterman laughs]
715
00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:01,834
- This is your first time to Ireland?
- Yes. Mm-hmm.
716
00:41:01,834 --> 00:41:03,669
You need to get out more, Dave. [laughs]
717
00:41:03,669 --> 00:41:06,130
That's true in almost
every aspect of my life.
718
00:41:06,130 --> 00:41:07,173
[laughs]
719
00:41:07,173 --> 00:41:09,008
Like many things in my life,
720
00:41:09,008 --> 00:41:11,927
I'm operating on a--
from a position of ignorance.
721
00:41:11,927 --> 00:41:13,262
I'm an open book, Dave.
722
00:41:13,262 --> 00:41:15,222
- You can ask whatever you want.
- Okay. All right.
723
00:41:15,222 --> 00:41:17,475
- I'm unshockable.
- Yeah, that's good.
724
00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:23,647
Is it safe to say that Ireland was among
the most repressive toward homosexuality,
725
00:41:23,647 --> 00:41:26,484
and has now become
almost the diametric opposite?
726
00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:27,568
[Bliss] Yes.
727
00:41:27,568 --> 00:41:29,820
[bell chimes]
728
00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:33,908
I grew up in a country that would
absolutely repress any hint of sexuality.
729
00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:40,372
Dublin, all through the '80s,
was this gray, aggressively normal,
730
00:41:40,372 --> 00:41:42,416
if you know what I mean, kind of place.
731
00:41:42,416 --> 00:41:45,711
Homosexuality wasn't even heard of.
732
00:41:45,711 --> 00:41:48,797
You know, when I was
a high school student in the '80s,
733
00:41:48,797 --> 00:41:51,509
U2's albums were-- They exposed you.
734
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,385
Did you respond to those as a kid?
735
00:41:53,385 --> 00:41:54,595
See, I didn't.
736
00:41:55,346 --> 00:42:00,100
I unfairly maligned U2,
because to me, at that time,
737
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:06,398
they were part and parcel of this culture,
this sort of straight-boy rock culture
738
00:42:06,398 --> 00:42:09,360
that I felt absolutely rejected by.
739
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,486
So I left.
740
00:42:10,486 --> 00:42:14,740
I went to Japan, um,
to-- to live and work and do this.
741
00:42:16,075 --> 00:42:19,912
And while I was living there,
U2 came and performed.
742
00:42:19,912 --> 00:42:22,540
And I started to see,
743
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:27,044
oh, actually this U2 is not the U2
that I, you know, unfairly maligned.
744
00:42:28,003 --> 00:42:32,132
What I saw onstage in Tokyo
was outward-looking, you know?
745
00:42:32,132 --> 00:42:34,093
It was sexy and fun.
746
00:42:34,093 --> 00:42:36,554
♪ You're a precious stone ♪
747
00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:40,391
Maybe I'm overselling it, but they were
part of the reason then in the end
748
00:42:40,391 --> 00:42:42,601
- that I ended up coming back eventually.
- Wow. Yeah.
749
00:42:42,601 --> 00:42:48,857
♪ Three hundred and sixty-five degrees ♪
750
00:42:48,857 --> 00:42:50,776
{\an8}♪ Burning down the house ♪
751
00:42:50,776 --> 00:42:54,697
{\an8}[Letterman] I saw a video of you onstage
with Bono and the band.
752
00:42:54,697 --> 00:42:55,781
[Bliss] Oh, right.
753
00:42:55,781 --> 00:43:01,120
♪ Love ♪
754
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,206
{\an8}[Bliss] It wasn't long after
the same-sex marriage referendum.
755
00:43:04,748 --> 00:43:06,542
Ireland was the first country
in the world ever
756
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:08,919
to bring in same-sex marriage
through popular vote.
757
00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:10,045
[Letterman] One thing here.
758
00:43:10,045 --> 00:43:12,506
So Bono gives you the microphone,
do you remember what you said?
759
00:43:13,299 --> 00:43:15,593
[laughs] I don't actually.
760
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:17,678
Have you something to say to your people?
761
00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:19,471
I'd just like to say I think this might be
762
00:43:19,471 --> 00:43:21,390
the straightest audience
I've ever played to.
763
00:43:21,390 --> 00:43:24,226
[laughs] I would have to check that, Dave.
764
00:43:24,226 --> 00:43:26,478
That sounds like work
and I don't like to do work.
765
00:43:26,478 --> 00:43:30,608
So I would just like to say, on behalf
of people like me, thanks a million.
766
00:43:30,608 --> 00:43:33,068
- We really appreciate it.
- [crowd cheering]
767
00:43:33,068 --> 00:43:34,320
Let's get married.
768
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,655
Yeah, I found my way back over the years,
769
00:43:37,197 --> 00:43:39,158
but not because I changed.
770
00:43:39,158 --> 00:43:41,910
[laughs]
I'm still the same idiot I was then.
771
00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:45,664
But this country changed dramatically.
772
00:43:45,664 --> 00:43:46,832
[crowd cheering]
773
00:43:46,832 --> 00:43:50,377
U2 was a part of what allowed Ireland
to stand on its own two feet.
774
00:43:50,377 --> 00:43:52,087
So actually, we have our own thing.
775
00:43:52,087 --> 00:43:54,798
I appreciated that at the time
and I still do now.
776
00:43:54,798 --> 00:43:57,426
Well, good for you.
And do you have any questions for me?
777
00:43:57,426 --> 00:44:01,096
Um, yeah, I think you've always been,
kind of, low-key, a fashion icon, Dave?
778
00:44:01,096 --> 00:44:03,766
- [laughing]
- You look like a cool dude now.
779
00:44:03,766 --> 00:44:05,809
- Cool dude of-- What age are you now?
- [laughs]
780
00:44:05,809 --> 00:44:07,645
- Seventy-five.
- Seventy-five.
781
00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:09,647
You are a cool-looking 75.
782
00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:11,982
- You're a cool-looking--
- What do I do about the chest pains?
783
00:44:11,982 --> 00:44:13,484
- Oh! Oh!
- [Bliss laughs]
784
00:44:13,484 --> 00:44:16,862
Dave, if you get chest pains and die here,
I'll be cashing in for years.
785
00:44:16,862 --> 00:44:17,946
[laughs]
786
00:44:17,946 --> 00:44:20,366
I'll have a blue plaque out there,
"Dave Letterman"...
787
00:44:20,366 --> 00:44:21,408
[both] ..."died here."
788
00:44:21,408 --> 00:44:22,660
- Yeah.
- [Letterman laughs]
789
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:25,412
There's several theaters in the world
where I died.
790
00:44:25,412 --> 00:44:27,998
- [Bliss laughs] Yeah.
- But this would be an honor to die here.
791
00:44:27,998 --> 00:44:29,708
Thank you for that.
792
00:44:29,708 --> 00:44:31,001
[Bliss] Thank you so much.
793
00:44:32,044 --> 00:44:35,047
[guitar strumming]
794
00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:43,263
[Letterman] Your work in particular
presents a difficult choice.
795
00:44:43,263 --> 00:44:46,850
You're torn, uh,
and there is maybe an ultimatum.
796
00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:48,268
Which way are we gonna here?
797
00:44:48,268 --> 00:44:50,646
Is it gonna be this
or is it gonna be that?
798
00:44:50,646 --> 00:44:54,108
{\an8}♪ Give us your song ♪
799
00:44:54,108 --> 00:44:57,528
{\an8}♪ Your song ♪
800
00:44:57,528 --> 00:45:00,114
♪ Your song ♪
801
00:45:00,114 --> 00:45:03,200
And I think you even speculated
that it was that tension
802
00:45:03,951 --> 00:45:05,619
that was useful to you creatively.
803
00:45:05,619 --> 00:45:06,954
[Bono] That's exactly right.
804
00:45:06,954 --> 00:45:09,123
You know, if you spoke to Keith Richards...
805
00:45:09,123 --> 00:45:12,626
I mean, one of the things he's always
been great on is duality.
806
00:45:12,626 --> 00:45:17,131
He'd say... [imitating Richards] ..."Duality.
It's Mona Lisa. It's the face."
807
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,426
[normal voice] Is it sad? Is it happy?
808
00:45:20,426 --> 00:45:26,932
♪ Unveiled ♪
809
00:45:30,561 --> 00:45:34,648
Duality is the song of, you know, tears,
but I'm dancing.
810
00:45:34,648 --> 00:45:36,400
- [Letterman] Hmm.
- That's the U2 thing.
811
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,318
You're right in the middle of that.
812
00:45:38,318 --> 00:45:40,404
["One" playing]
813
00:45:45,784 --> 00:45:48,787
My life opened up as an artist
814
00:45:50,330 --> 00:45:53,834
when I realized you don't have
to resolve every contradiction.
815
00:45:54,752 --> 00:45:58,756
In fact, right at the center
of contradiction is the place to be.
816
00:46:00,758 --> 00:46:02,760
♪ Is it getting better? ♪
817
00:46:05,387 --> 00:46:09,224
♪ Do you feel the same? ♪
818
00:46:10,517 --> 00:46:14,021
♪ Will it make it easier on you now? ♪
819
00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:18,817
♪ You got someone to blame ♪
820
00:46:18,817 --> 00:46:22,237
♪ You say one love ♪
821
00:46:23,113 --> 00:46:24,698
♪ One life ♪
822
00:46:25,532 --> 00:46:29,203
♪ It's one need in the night ♪
823
00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,623
♪ One love ♪
824
00:46:33,540 --> 00:46:34,958
♪ We get to share it ♪
825
00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:37,878
♪ Leaves you, baby ♪
826
00:46:39,588 --> 00:46:40,923
♪ If you don't care for it ♪
827
00:46:52,768 --> 00:46:54,353
♪ Did I disappoint you? ♪
828
00:46:57,439 --> 00:47:00,442
♪ Leave a bad taste in your mouth? ♪
829
00:47:02,528 --> 00:47:05,030
♪ You act like you never had love ♪
830
00:47:05,906 --> 00:47:09,993
♪ And you want me to go without ♪
831
00:47:11,245 --> 00:47:16,583
♪ Well, it's too late tonight ♪
832
00:47:17,584 --> 00:47:21,505
♪ To drag the dirt out into the light ♪
833
00:47:22,881 --> 00:47:26,218
♪ We're one, but we're not the same ♪
834
00:47:27,135 --> 00:47:28,971
♪ We get to carry each other ♪
835
00:47:30,013 --> 00:47:31,515
♪ Carry each other ♪
836
00:47:32,349 --> 00:47:33,350
♪ One ♪
837
00:47:44,444 --> 00:47:46,697
♪ Have you come here for forgiveness? ♪
838
00:47:49,533 --> 00:47:52,452
♪ Have you come to raise the dead? ♪
839
00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:58,876
♪ Have you come here to play Jesus ♪
840
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:02,546
♪ To the lepers in your bed? ♪
841
00:48:03,338 --> 00:48:06,425
♪ Did I ask too much? ♪
842
00:48:07,134 --> 00:48:08,719
♪ More than a lot ♪
843
00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:11,305
♪ You give me nothing ♪
844
00:48:11,305 --> 00:48:14,057
♪ Now it's all I've got ♪
845
00:48:14,975 --> 00:48:18,228
♪ We're one, but we're not the same ♪
846
00:48:18,937 --> 00:48:21,857
♪ Yeah, we hurt each other ♪
847
00:48:21,857 --> 00:48:24,067
♪ Then we do it again ♪
848
00:48:24,067 --> 00:48:27,279
[both] ♪ You say love is a temple ♪
849
00:48:27,279 --> 00:48:30,574
♪ Love a higher law ♪
850
00:48:30,574 --> 00:48:33,243
[both] ♪ Love is a temple ♪
851
00:48:33,243 --> 00:48:35,120
♪ Love a higher law ♪
852
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,915
-♪ You ask me to enter ♪
- [Edge vocalizes]
853
00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:40,167
♪ Then you made me crawl ♪
854
00:48:40,792 --> 00:48:42,794
♪ I can't be holding on ♪
855
00:48:44,296 --> 00:48:45,631
♪ To what you've got ♪
856
00:48:46,924 --> 00:48:48,759
♪ When all you got is hurt ♪
857
00:48:49,551 --> 00:48:51,053
♪ One love ♪
858
00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:53,513
♪ One blood ♪
859
00:48:54,806 --> 00:48:56,058
♪ One life ♪
860
00:48:56,058 --> 00:48:57,976
♪ Got to do what you should ♪
861
00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:01,647
♪ One life ♪
862
00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:04,274
♪ With each other ♪
863
00:49:05,275 --> 00:49:06,443
♪ Sister ♪
864
00:49:08,570 --> 00:49:09,655
♪ Brother ♪
865
00:49:11,657 --> 00:49:13,158
[applause, cheers]
866
00:49:23,669 --> 00:49:25,587
[ticking]
867
00:49:25,587 --> 00:49:30,008
Ireland is about a hundred years old,
and the band is about 50 years old.
868
00:49:30,008 --> 00:49:31,635
Which is more unlikely:
869
00:49:31,635 --> 00:49:36,473
That Ireland is a hundred and better than
ever, and the band, uh, 50 years in?
870
00:49:36,473 --> 00:49:38,058
To that question, I would say,
871
00:49:38,058 --> 00:49:43,522
it's probably the fact that we're a band
for this long is a more remarkable thing.
872
00:49:43,522 --> 00:49:45,941
We kind of grew up working together
873
00:49:45,941 --> 00:49:52,698
and learned how to be, you know,
people of the world because of our band.
874
00:49:52,698 --> 00:49:54,282
So we're probably, to some extent,
875
00:49:54,282 --> 00:49:58,328
oh, a little institutionalized
by being in U2 this long.
876
00:50:02,624 --> 00:50:06,044
[Letterman] I don't know that I could work
with my friends in a creative arena
877
00:50:06,044 --> 00:50:07,546
for any length of time.
878
00:50:08,296 --> 00:50:10,132
There's many times in the past, I think,
879
00:50:10,132 --> 00:50:14,594
that that might've been just
pushing our luck a little too far.
880
00:50:14,594 --> 00:50:16,013
[sighs]
881
00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:20,100
Friendship,
it's deeply part of who we are.
882
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:23,854
But you could lose that along the way,
and we have to work on it.
883
00:50:25,439 --> 00:50:27,274
[Letterman] Do you embarrass the band?
884
00:50:28,191 --> 00:50:29,192
Yes, I do.
885
00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:32,696
[train whistle blows]
886
00:50:32,696 --> 00:50:36,408
My activism, as the band would accept,
887
00:50:36,408 --> 00:50:38,827
is fairly unhip work.
888
00:50:39,536 --> 00:50:41,663
If you're in a rock-and-roll band,
889
00:50:41,663 --> 00:50:44,291
you don't wanna be in a photograph
with some people
890
00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:49,880
that might be polar opposite
to the values that you hold dear.
891
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,381
And I did that to them.
892
00:50:52,007 --> 00:50:55,886
{\an8}And-- And I'll say it's extraordinary
on a few levels because,
893
00:50:55,886 --> 00:50:59,347
{\an8}you know,
it's bad for both of our images.
894
00:50:59,347 --> 00:51:03,977
{\an8}[Bono] When I was working with Jesse Helms
and we did great work together...
895
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:12,819
Edge just said, "Please, just please,
whatever you do, don't bring Jesse Helms,
896
00:51:12,819 --> 00:51:16,740
who personally dismantled
the National Endowment for the Arts,
897
00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,576
do not bring him to a U2 show."
898
00:51:19,576 --> 00:51:22,496
- And I brought him to a U2 show.
- [Letterman] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
899
00:51:24,414 --> 00:51:27,000
- [Edge] It was very hard for us.
- [Letterman] Yeah.
900
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,836
[Edge] There was a lot of tension
created by that.
901
00:51:31,546 --> 00:51:34,549
I wouldn't have done it, I guess.
I probably wouldn't have done it.
902
00:51:34,549 --> 00:51:35,634
Mm-hmm.
903
00:51:36,176 --> 00:51:40,055
Yeah, it-- it's an awkward one.
It's an awkward one.
904
00:51:42,265 --> 00:51:45,644
You know,
I'm turning what we create as a band
905
00:51:45,644 --> 00:51:50,065
into currency that I choose to spend
in these areas.
906
00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:56,113
And they, by and large, support me.
907
00:51:56,113 --> 00:51:59,449
But I do know I test their patience.
908
00:52:01,409 --> 00:52:04,913
And do you feel that this relationship is
getting stronger as you guys get older?
909
00:52:05,539 --> 00:52:10,210
Yeah. I-- I think we acknowledge
each other's, um, idiosyncrasies,
910
00:52:10,210 --> 00:52:12,712
and they're not-- it's not threatening.
911
00:52:12,712 --> 00:52:15,257
- And we're also not in competition.
- Mm-hmm.
912
00:52:15,257 --> 00:52:20,011
It's-- It's just part of the way,
I suppose, we show respect to each other.
913
00:52:20,011 --> 00:52:21,179
[Letterman] Yeah, yeah.
914
00:52:23,431 --> 00:52:26,434
[Bono] We have an unusual relationship.
915
00:52:28,145 --> 00:52:33,400
As I often explain to the audience,
Edge is from the future.
916
00:52:34,317 --> 00:52:37,237
And as I often ask him, "How is it?"
917
00:52:37,237 --> 00:52:39,948
Which he will always reply, "Better."
918
00:52:39,948 --> 00:52:41,449
[chuckles]
919
00:52:42,534 --> 00:52:44,619
-Hi, guys.
- [Edge] This is digital.
920
00:52:44,619 --> 00:52:46,705
It's not actually me. It's not video.
921
00:52:46,705 --> 00:52:48,415
- Now I'm confused. That's not you.
- No.
922
00:52:48,415 --> 00:52:50,167
- That's not a human being?
- No.
923
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:52,752
It's a rendering of me as an avatar.
924
00:52:52,752 --> 00:52:55,881
...virtual version of me.
A replica. Imagine if we could take...
925
00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:57,132
- [Edge laughs]
- I just--
926
00:52:57,132 --> 00:53:00,510
Just promise me
you'll always use this for good, not evil.
927
00:53:00,510 --> 00:53:02,179
[laughing]
928
00:53:02,179 --> 00:53:06,016
[applause]
929
00:53:08,185 --> 00:53:09,978
The thing I don't like--
930
00:53:10,812 --> 00:53:14,149
- The thing I don't like about you...
- [crowd chuckles]
931
00:53:14,149 --> 00:53:18,820
The thing I don't like about Edge
is that he-- he-- he doesn't need me.
932
00:53:18,820 --> 00:53:21,990
I mean, he could be doing all of this,
933
00:53:22,741 --> 00:53:26,411
writing, singing, performing,
playing, producing, on his own.
934
00:53:27,913 --> 00:53:29,581
- But he doesn't.
- Mm-hmm.
935
00:53:30,165 --> 00:53:32,042
- Ha ha.
- 'Cause it's not as much fun.
936
00:53:32,042 --> 00:53:34,211
[applause]
937
00:53:34,211 --> 00:53:37,047
["Stuck in a Moment
You Can't Get Out Of" playing]
938
00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:41,760
♪ I am not afraid
Of anything in this world ♪
939
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,262
♪ There's nothing you can throw at me ♪
940
00:53:44,262 --> 00:53:47,140
♪ That I haven't already heard ♪
941
00:53:47,140 --> 00:53:51,811
♪ I am just trying to find
A decent melody ♪
942
00:53:51,811 --> 00:53:54,439
♪ A song that I can sing ♪
943
00:53:54,439 --> 00:53:56,524
♪ In my own company ♪
944
00:53:58,276 --> 00:54:02,364
Your best friends are the ones
that you can have the best arguments with.
945
00:54:02,364 --> 00:54:06,243
And I've got pretty much the best argument
you could ever find right here.
946
00:54:06,243 --> 00:54:07,994
[applause]
947
00:54:07,994 --> 00:54:09,996
♪ You wanna stand up straight ♪
948
00:54:10,664 --> 00:54:12,832
♪ Carry your own weight ♪
949
00:54:12,832 --> 00:54:16,920
♪ These tears are going nowhere, baby ♪
950
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,297
I would trust the Edge with my life.
951
00:54:19,297 --> 00:54:22,717
In fact, I have... [chuckles]
...trusted him with my life. Um...
952
00:54:25,178 --> 00:54:27,555
Yeah. That was a good call.
953
00:54:27,555 --> 00:54:29,015
"Stuck in a Moment."
954
00:54:29,015 --> 00:54:29,933
♪ Yeah ♪
955
00:54:31,142 --> 00:54:35,188
♪ You've got to get yourself together ♪
956
00:54:35,188 --> 00:54:38,191
♪ You got stuck in a moment ♪
957
00:54:38,191 --> 00:54:40,944
♪ And now you can't get out of it ♪
958
00:54:41,903 --> 00:54:45,991
♪ Don't say that later will be better ♪
959
00:54:45,991 --> 00:54:48,994
♪ Now you're stuck in a moment ♪
960
00:54:48,994 --> 00:54:51,496
♪ And you can't get out ♪
961
00:54:52,664 --> 00:54:57,294
♪ And if the night runs over ♪
962
00:54:58,003 --> 00:55:03,258
♪ And if the day won't last ♪
963
00:55:03,258 --> 00:55:08,471
♪ And if your way should falter ♪
964
00:55:08,471 --> 00:55:13,893
♪ Along that stony pass ♪
965
00:55:13,893 --> 00:55:18,898
-♪ And if the night runs over ♪
-♪ And if the night runs over ♪
966
00:55:19,566 --> 00:55:23,820
-♪ And if the day won't last ♪
-♪ And if the days won't last ♪
967
00:55:24,738 --> 00:55:29,492
[both] ♪ And if your way should falter ♪
968
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:35,749
♪ Along that stony pass ♪
969
00:55:36,833 --> 00:55:38,460
♪ It's just a moment ♪
970
00:55:42,213 --> 00:55:43,631
♪ It's just a moment ♪
971
00:55:46,176 --> 00:55:49,179
♪ This too shall pass ♪
972
00:55:50,138 --> 00:55:53,099
[applause, cheers]
973
00:55:54,684 --> 00:55:57,812
{\an8}[Letterman] Wow. This-- You feel like
you're in Ireland here, eh?
974
00:56:07,238 --> 00:56:09,449
What is this called?
This is the Forty Foot?
975
00:56:09,449 --> 00:56:11,034
- [bather 1] Yeah.
- [bather 2] The Forty Foot.
976
00:56:11,034 --> 00:56:13,995
[Letterman] Tell us what--
Why are you here? And-- And then, why?
977
00:56:13,995 --> 00:56:15,538
[bather 1] I'm here to swim. [laughs]
978
00:56:15,538 --> 00:56:17,499
{\an8}- [Letterman] But did you lose a bet?
- No.
979
00:56:17,499 --> 00:56:19,709
{\an8}Well, explain the routine.
980
00:56:19,709 --> 00:56:22,253
[Siobhán] Every morning, there's a crowd
of swimmers and we all meet up.
981
00:56:22,253 --> 00:56:24,005
- [Letterman] Every season?
- [Siobhán] Every season.
982
00:56:24,005 --> 00:56:26,132
- [Letterman] Summer, spring, winter, fall?
- [Siobhán] Yeah.
983
00:56:26,132 --> 00:56:28,843
- Hello, how is everyone?
- [bathers laughing]
984
00:56:28,843 --> 00:56:29,928
[bather] Just grand.
985
00:56:29,928 --> 00:56:34,307
- [Letterman] There's a man in a Santa hat.
- [Siobhán] He swims here every day.
986
00:56:34,307 --> 00:56:37,018
- We're gonna say that that's me.
- Okay.
987
00:56:37,018 --> 00:56:39,354
- There I am. There's Dave.
- [Siobhán laughs]
988
00:56:39,354 --> 00:56:41,898
[Siobhán] So you want me to swim
with Dave and pretend that's you?
989
00:56:41,898 --> 00:56:44,609
[Letterman] Yes, please do.
Yes, 'cause I'm freezing now.
990
00:56:44,609 --> 00:56:45,693
[bather screams]
991
00:56:45,693 --> 00:56:46,986
{\an8}[bather speaking]
992
00:56:46,986 --> 00:56:49,280
[Letterman] No, no.
I can make that sound without getting in.
993
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,032
Ooh, is that kelp?
994
00:56:51,741 --> 00:56:53,993
[Letterman laughing] Oh, my God!
995
00:56:56,496 --> 00:56:57,497
[giggles]
996
00:56:57,497 --> 00:57:02,836
This is like there's been some shipwreck,
but yet, we've found the survivors.
997
00:57:04,212 --> 00:57:06,881
- How was that?
- [bather] It was actually very nice.
998
00:57:06,881 --> 00:57:09,134
- You enjoyed it?
- Feels brilliant. Actually brilliant.
999
00:57:09,134 --> 00:57:11,094
- You're happy to be alive?
- Yeah. It's amazing.
1000
00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:13,513
You go into the sea one person
and you come out another.
1001
00:57:13,513 --> 00:57:16,182
- [Letterman] That's lovely to hear.
- It's a great change. Try it.
1002
00:57:16,182 --> 00:57:19,436
Yeah, wait till I get back to the hotel
and try it in the pool.
1003
00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:20,603
[bather] Yes.
1004
00:57:20,603 --> 00:57:23,273
{\an8}[Gary]
Traditionally, this was only for men.
1005
00:57:23,273 --> 00:57:25,525
{\an8}- [Letterman] Until 1974...
- [Gary] Yeah, yeah.
1006
00:57:25,525 --> 00:57:26,734
...and then women were allowed.
1007
00:57:26,734 --> 00:57:29,446
[Gary] I was here
when the women rushed in,
1008
00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:32,073
and hopped in there
and swam in there naked.
1009
00:57:32,866 --> 00:57:34,993
[Siobhán]
There's a lovely atmosphere down here.
1010
00:57:34,993 --> 00:57:37,579
You never come out of a swim
without a smile on your face.
1011
00:57:37,579 --> 00:57:40,081
- [laughs]
- And if you've any worries--
1012
00:57:40,081 --> 00:57:43,751
- If you've any worries, they're just gone.
- I understand the smile on your face.
1013
00:57:43,751 --> 00:57:46,671
- Sort of frozen on one's face.
- [Siobhán chuckles] Probably, yeah.
1014
00:57:46,671 --> 00:57:48,715
Well, let's just see
what temperature this water is.
1015
00:57:48,715 --> 00:57:50,008
{\an8}[Gary speaking]
1016
00:57:50,008 --> 00:57:52,969
{\an8}- [Gary] I wouldn't get too close to that.
- No, this is as close as I'm gonna get.
1017
00:57:54,304 --> 00:57:57,307
- I told you not to let me get too close.
- [Siobhán laughs]
1018
00:57:58,391 --> 00:58:00,643
I have to leave now. Shoes are wet.
1019
00:58:05,273 --> 00:58:08,359
[Bono] Well, we just want to welcome
the Forty Foot man.
1020
00:58:08,359 --> 00:58:10,195
- He's been out in the Forty Foot...
- Yes.
1021
00:58:10,195 --> 00:58:11,279
[crowd cheers]
1022
00:58:11,279 --> 00:58:15,658
- ...and getting splashed around in the bay.
- Thank you. I, um...
1023
00:58:15,658 --> 00:58:18,995
It was on the news, I stripped naked
and got in for 45 minutes.
1024
00:58:18,995 --> 00:58:21,206
[crowd laughs]
1025
00:58:21,206 --> 00:58:24,292
You've seen more of Dublin in the last
three days, he has, than...
1026
00:58:24,292 --> 00:58:26,544
- You know, I was--
- ...than we have in the last year.
1027
00:58:26,544 --> 00:58:28,630
This also was a gift.
1028
00:58:28,630 --> 00:58:31,925
Uh, we went somewhere and got on the DART,
1029
00:58:31,925 --> 00:58:34,552
and, uh, spent two hours with Glen.
1030
00:58:34,552 --> 00:58:36,054
Aha, well, there you go.
1031
00:58:36,054 --> 00:58:39,766
That means you've-- Beard-off, beard-off.
Glen Hansard and you.
1032
00:58:39,766 --> 00:58:41,768
He has a beautiful beard, but I--
1033
00:58:41,768 --> 00:58:44,521
If you ever get a chance
to get right up close to him,
1034
00:58:45,146 --> 00:58:48,024
you'll be hypnotized by his blue eyes.
1035
00:58:48,024 --> 00:58:50,318
Oh, my goodness, ladies and gentlemen.
1036
00:58:50,318 --> 00:58:53,821
[piano playing]
1037
00:58:59,118 --> 00:59:01,621
[Hansard] There's a Moya Cannon poem
1038
00:59:01,621 --> 00:59:05,833
that probably speaks a lot
to the idea of taking songs
1039
00:59:05,833 --> 00:59:09,337
and what happens to songs
and where they go and where music goes.
1040
00:59:09,963 --> 00:59:11,464
It's called "Carrying the Songs."
1041
00:59:12,215 --> 00:59:14,342
{\an8}It was always those
with little else to carry
1042
00:59:14,342 --> 00:59:16,177
{\an8}who carried the songs.
1043
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:20,515
- Deep rhythms-- Ah, [bleep].
- [Letterman laughs]
1044
00:59:20,515 --> 00:59:23,977
Every one of the poems I write,
ends in "Aw, [bleep]."
1045
00:59:23,977 --> 00:59:25,478
[laughs]
1046
00:59:25,478 --> 00:59:27,480
- Okay, I think I have it.
- All right.
1047
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:28,565
Okay, one more time.
1048
01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:32,920
So this idea that--
that songs are what we carry...
1049
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,006
- Yeah.
- ...even when we have nothing else.
1050
01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:38,843
Those who are the victors
write the history.
1051
01:00:38,843 --> 01:00:39,927
[Letterman] Yeah.
1052
01:00:40,637 --> 01:00:42,513
[Hansard]
And those who suffered wrote the songs.
1053
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,642
So we have a lot of songs in Ireland.
1054
01:00:45,642 --> 01:00:47,810
[laughing]
1055
01:00:47,810 --> 01:00:50,647
- [guitars strumming]
- [singers vocalizing]
1056
01:01:05,286 --> 01:01:10,208
{\an8}♪ Sometimes I wake up in the morning ♪
1057
01:01:14,003 --> 01:01:18,424
♪ A ginger lady by my bed ♪
1058
01:01:20,385 --> 01:01:23,638
- [Bono] How long have you been sober?
- [laughs] Since I was 34.
1059
01:01:23,638 --> 01:01:25,556
"Since I was 34." Okay, fingers crossed.
1060
01:01:25,556 --> 01:01:26,724
[all laugh]
1061
01:01:26,724 --> 01:01:28,017
- Wanna see a walk, Dave?
- Yeah.
1062
01:01:28,017 --> 01:01:29,185
Watch this.
1063
01:01:29,185 --> 01:01:31,437
Okay, this is a walk-- Dublin walk.
You ready?
1064
01:01:32,730 --> 01:01:33,940
[laughing]
1065
01:01:33,940 --> 01:01:35,983
Yeah. All right.
1066
01:01:35,983 --> 01:01:37,527
- Pretty good.
- [Bono] Dublin.
1067
01:01:37,527 --> 01:01:38,611
[chuckles]
1068
01:01:39,153 --> 01:01:40,488
- Like that?
- Yeah. That's it.
1069
01:01:42,323 --> 01:01:45,660
[fiddle playing]
1070
01:01:45,660 --> 01:01:47,745
- [Letterman] Are we here?
- [Bono] This is it.
1071
01:01:48,246 --> 01:01:50,164
Haven't been in here for a long time.
1072
01:01:51,290 --> 01:01:52,291
Hello.
1073
01:01:53,668 --> 01:01:57,004
[singers vocalizing]
1074
01:01:58,548 --> 01:01:59,632
Hello, hello, hello.
1075
01:02:01,050 --> 01:02:02,468
[Letterman] Hi. How are ya?
1076
01:02:02,468 --> 01:02:05,388
What is your name? Oliver. I'm Dave.
1077
01:02:06,472 --> 01:02:09,225
[vocalizing continues]
1078
01:02:24,949 --> 01:02:26,117
- [song ends]
- [singer] Aye.
1079
01:02:26,117 --> 01:02:27,660
[crowd cheering]
1080
01:02:27,660 --> 01:02:28,953
[patron] Fuckin' beautiful.
1081
01:02:28,953 --> 01:02:30,246
Glen!
1082
01:02:30,246 --> 01:02:31,622
- [Hansard] Heya.
- Good to see ya.
1083
01:02:31,622 --> 01:02:33,166
I believe you like me eyes.
1084
01:02:33,166 --> 01:02:34,917
[patrons laugh]
1085
01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:36,085
Okay.
1086
01:02:36,085 --> 01:02:38,171
That was just wonderful. Thank you.
1087
01:02:38,838 --> 01:02:40,798
It should be the national anthem, eh?
1088
01:02:40,798 --> 01:02:42,133
[patrons laugh]
1089
01:02:42,925 --> 01:02:44,927
["All I Want Is You" playing]
1090
01:02:54,061 --> 01:02:57,982
♪ Say you want ♪
1091
01:02:59,650 --> 01:03:03,488
♪ A diamond on a ring of gold ♪
1092
01:03:04,614 --> 01:03:08,451
♪ Your story to remain untold ♪
1093
01:03:08,951 --> 01:03:13,956
♪ Your love not to grow cold ♪
1094
01:03:13,956 --> 01:03:18,628
♪ All the promises we break ♪
1095
01:03:19,170 --> 01:03:24,717
♪ From the cradle to the grave ♪
1096
01:03:24,717 --> 01:03:31,808
♪ All I want is you ♪
1097
01:03:34,393 --> 01:03:36,395
♪ All I want is you ♪
1098
01:03:39,565 --> 01:03:44,153
♪ All I want is you ♪
1099
01:03:44,946 --> 01:03:49,992
♪ All I want is you ♪
1100
01:03:49,992 --> 01:03:55,206
♪ All I want is you ♪
1101
01:03:55,206 --> 01:03:59,544
♪ All I want is you ♪
1102
01:03:59,544 --> 01:04:04,048
♪ All I want is you ♪
1103
01:04:04,048 --> 01:04:05,341
- [song ends]
- [crowd cheering]
1104
01:04:05,341 --> 01:04:07,510
[patron] Wow, guys. That was badass.
1105
01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:18,062
{\an8}You've mentioned
recording phrases of music...
1106
01:04:18,062 --> 01:04:19,814
- [Edge] Yeah.
- ...on a device.
1107
01:04:19,814 --> 01:04:22,191
I mean, it could be
literally the middle of the night,
1108
01:04:22,191 --> 01:04:24,193
- I'll wake up with an idea.
- Mm-hmm.
1109
01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:27,905
So I have to get out of bed,
find the phone, a guitar.
1110
01:04:27,905 --> 01:04:32,702
Looking at my phone this morning,
I have 6,000 voice notes.
1111
01:04:32,702 --> 01:04:34,996
[rock music playing on phone]
1112
01:04:37,748 --> 01:04:43,087
See, to be able to do this, honestly,
it's like you guys are a magic act.
1113
01:04:43,087 --> 01:04:45,214
[Bono] Well, we have some magic for you.
1114
01:04:45,214 --> 01:04:47,800
We were gonna write a tune for you
called "Forty Foot Man."
1115
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,343
When did this happen? How long--
1116
01:04:49,343 --> 01:04:52,513
- This is just downstairs.
- This is, uh, 3:00 a.m. this morning.
1117
01:04:52,513 --> 01:04:53,931
- [Bono] It started at 3:00 a.m.
- Really?
1118
01:04:53,931 --> 01:04:57,643
So this whole little thing that you're
doing for me now is fresh out of the oven?
1119
01:04:57,643 --> 01:04:58,728
Yeah.
1120
01:04:58,728 --> 01:05:01,063
- That's crazy.
- [Bono] Try it again. Let me try it again.
1121
01:05:01,063 --> 01:05:02,273
[music stops]
1122
01:05:02,273 --> 01:05:04,692
- Do you wanna give it a go?
- Yeah. Okay.
1123
01:05:04,692 --> 01:05:07,570
[rock music playing on phone]
1124
01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:10,531
- Tell me when to start.
- You've written lyrics and everything.
1125
01:05:10,531 --> 01:05:11,949
[Bono] Oh, yeah.
1126
01:05:12,617 --> 01:05:15,369
A one, two, three, four.
1127
01:05:15,953 --> 01:05:20,791
♪ We come to love this Forty Foot man ♪
1128
01:05:21,792 --> 01:05:26,297
♪ He keeps on doing the best that he can ♪
1129
01:05:27,590 --> 01:05:32,011
♪ We almost lost him there
On Sandymount Strand ♪
1130
01:05:33,721 --> 01:05:37,475
♪ Being swept away was part of his plan ♪
1131
01:05:39,936 --> 01:05:44,023
♪ You can laugh nervously ♪
1132
01:05:44,023 --> 01:05:45,316
[laughs]
1133
01:05:45,316 --> 01:05:48,903
♪ That's how we see underneath ♪
1134
01:05:51,072 --> 01:05:52,114
You try this bit.
1135
01:05:54,367 --> 01:05:58,287
♪ He's not so exciting ♪
1136
01:05:59,914 --> 01:06:03,334
♪ He's not so frightening ♪
1137
01:06:03,334 --> 01:06:07,755
[guitar strumming]
1138
01:06:07,755 --> 01:06:10,174
♪ Fast as lightning ♪
1139
01:06:11,759 --> 01:06:14,178
♪ This Forty Foot man ♪
1140
01:06:17,431 --> 01:06:20,434
♪ This Forty Foot man ♪
1141
01:06:20,434 --> 01:06:22,144
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1142
01:06:22,144 --> 01:06:23,229
[chuckles] Oh, man.
1143
01:06:23,229 --> 01:06:24,313
♪ He travels... ♪
1144
01:06:24,313 --> 01:06:25,940
- [chuckles] Oh, man.
- You hate this--
1145
01:06:25,940 --> 01:06:27,024
- Okay.
- Oh, man.
1146
01:06:27,024 --> 01:06:31,153
The phrase in there that absolutely rings
true is, "Tries the best that he can."
1147
01:06:31,153 --> 01:06:32,238
[laughs]
1148
01:06:32,238 --> 01:06:36,283
And I have to tell myself that
every minute of every day.
1149
01:06:36,283 --> 01:06:39,078
Many nice things have happened for me
in my life.
1150
01:06:39,078 --> 01:06:41,789
This is-- would be
right at the top of that list.
1151
01:06:41,789 --> 01:06:47,503
I mean, this is like people could call
and order custom-made U2 songs.
1152
01:06:47,503 --> 01:06:49,255
Well, I don't know about that.
1153
01:06:49,255 --> 01:06:52,133
You see,
the thing is it's about inspiration.
1154
01:06:52,967 --> 01:06:55,803
- [Letterman] Oh, this is too much.
- You gave us the inspiration.
1155
01:06:55,803 --> 01:06:59,181
Well, when do we talk about,
uh, publishing?
1156
01:06:59,181 --> 01:07:01,767
- Publishing? [scoffs] Hey, back off.
- [Letterman] Yeah.
1157
01:07:01,767 --> 01:07:03,686
- [Letterman chuckles]
- Back off, Letterman.
1158
01:07:03,686 --> 01:07:04,812
[laughs]
1159
01:07:09,525 --> 01:07:12,278
{\an8}[clock ticking]
1160
01:07:12,278 --> 01:07:14,864
{\an8}[Bono] "The greatest songwriting
is never conclusive...
1161
01:07:17,116 --> 01:07:19,618
but the search for conclusion."
1162
01:07:21,037 --> 01:07:22,038
Hmm.
1163
01:07:22,038 --> 01:07:25,124
["Sunday Bloody Sunday" playing]
1164
01:07:27,251 --> 01:07:31,756
♪ How long
How long must we sing this song? ♪
1165
01:07:31,756 --> 01:07:35,009
♪ How long, how long? ♪
1166
01:07:35,551 --> 01:07:37,386
[Bono vocalizing]
1167
01:07:38,554 --> 01:07:41,057
♪ 'Cause tonight ♪
1168
01:07:41,766 --> 01:07:43,934
♪ We can be as one ♪
1169
01:07:43,934 --> 01:07:48,105
♪ Tonight, tonight ♪
1170
01:07:48,606 --> 01:07:50,858
♪ Tonight ♪
1171
01:07:51,734 --> 01:07:53,069
[vocalizes]
1172
01:07:54,028 --> 01:07:55,780
♪ Tonight ♪
1173
01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:57,364
♪ Tonight ♪
1174
01:07:57,948 --> 01:07:59,033
Pick it up.
1175
01:08:21,347 --> 01:08:24,850
♪ Wipe the tears from your eyes ♪
1176
01:08:26,018 --> 01:08:30,189
[Letterman] The lyrics of this
have been rewritten for the new release.
1177
01:08:30,189 --> 01:08:31,732
[Bono] Yeah, that's right.
1178
01:08:31,732 --> 01:08:35,611
What a thrill to finish "Sunday
Bloody Sunday" all these years later.
1179
01:08:35,611 --> 01:08:39,782
To go back to Derry
and make it present tense.
1180
01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:43,410
I could never have written that song
this way back then.
1181
01:08:47,164 --> 01:08:49,667
♪ Here at the murder scene ♪
1182
01:08:51,877 --> 01:08:53,963
♪ The beginning of a fiction ♪
1183
01:08:53,963 --> 01:08:56,382
♪ The facts will not come clean ♪
1184
01:08:57,383 --> 01:09:01,220
♪ Why so many mothers cry? ♪
1185
01:09:02,346 --> 01:09:06,725
♪ Is religion now the enemy
Of holy spirit guide? ♪
1186
01:09:07,935 --> 01:09:10,604
♪ The real battle yet begun ♪
1187
01:09:13,107 --> 01:09:20,114
♪ Where is the victory Jesus won? ♪
1188
01:09:22,449 --> 01:09:23,492
[song ends]
1189
01:09:23,492 --> 01:09:26,579
[applause, cheers]
1190
01:09:30,583 --> 01:09:31,709
Thank you.
1191
01:09:32,918 --> 01:09:36,964
So, all I want now is the answer to
the question, "How do you write a song?"
1192
01:09:36,964 --> 01:09:38,215
And I don't have that yet.
1193
01:09:38,215 --> 01:09:40,509
[Edge clicks tongue]
Not to get into the weeds too much,
1194
01:09:40,509 --> 01:09:43,387
but chords are the foundation
of all melody.
1195
01:09:43,387 --> 01:09:46,599
- So, actually, before we get to melody...
- [yawns]
1196
01:09:46,599 --> 01:09:48,976
- [laughs]
- ...we need to find the right chords.
1197
01:09:48,976 --> 01:09:50,895
I don't agree with Edge on that one.
1198
01:09:50,895 --> 01:09:55,274
I'm just saying, because think about
what you just did to "One."
1199
01:09:55,274 --> 01:09:56,817
You changed the chords.
1200
01:09:56,817 --> 01:09:58,694
Same melody. Same words.
1201
01:09:58,694 --> 01:10:00,237
- You just did it.
- Actually, I didn't.
1202
01:10:00,237 --> 01:10:02,823
[stammers] We changed the key
but not the chords.
1203
01:10:02,823 --> 01:10:05,159
We did well. We nearly got to 50 years,
1204
01:10:05,159 --> 01:10:09,496
- and in Marsh's Library it all fell apart.
- [Letterman laughs] It's coming apart.
1205
01:10:09,496 --> 01:10:12,583
Well, yes,
but the fact you're still doing it,
1206
01:10:12,583 --> 01:10:14,335
and you're not tired of doing it,
1207
01:10:14,335 --> 01:10:15,794
- and you're still--
- [Edge laughs]
1208
01:10:15,794 --> 01:10:20,132
You know, I've certainly thought about,
um, walking away from U2,
1209
01:10:20,132 --> 01:10:22,551
- and I know every member has.
- No. No.
1210
01:10:22,551 --> 01:10:23,844
- Yeah, we've--
- No, no.
1211
01:10:23,844 --> 01:10:26,096
No, we have all thought about it,
and it's really--
1212
01:10:26,096 --> 01:10:28,390
Thought about it,
but didn't get you out the door.
1213
01:10:28,390 --> 01:10:32,519
But it's really the right instinct
is to question
1214
01:10:32,519 --> 01:10:35,022
whether this should be a going concern
1215
01:10:35,022 --> 01:10:37,816
and what it demands
of all four members of U2.
1216
01:10:37,816 --> 01:10:39,068
Mm-hmm.
1217
01:10:39,068 --> 01:10:42,196
And the reason why I want to go forward is
1218
01:10:42,196 --> 01:10:46,492
because something is stirring
in my voice and in my singing.
1219
01:10:46,992 --> 01:10:50,663
And this desire to write the song
that we haven't got yet, you know?
1220
01:10:50,663 --> 01:10:54,750
We're sort of chasing the dragon
of the song we can't get.
1221
01:10:56,835 --> 01:10:59,088
{\an8}- Do you wanna hear another song?
- [Bono] Yes.
1222
01:10:59,088 --> 01:11:03,133
Let's try "Breaking Wave,"
'cause we never quite nail the vocal here.
1223
01:11:03,133 --> 01:11:05,052
Let's do something completely different.
1224
01:11:05,052 --> 01:11:06,887
- [song starts]
- [Elmhirst laughs]
1225
01:11:06,887 --> 01:11:08,764
This is a ten-year-in-the-making song.
1226
01:11:08,764 --> 01:11:11,308
["Every Breaking Wave" playing]
1227
01:11:12,810 --> 01:11:17,314
♪ Every breaking wave on the shore ♪
1228
01:11:18,148 --> 01:11:22,111
♪ Tells the next one
There'll be one more ♪
1229
01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:27,116
♪ And every gambler knows that to lose ♪
1230
01:11:27,992 --> 01:11:30,911
♪ Is what you're really there for ♪
1231
01:11:31,495 --> 01:11:35,916
♪ Summer I was fearlessness ♪
1232
01:11:36,959 --> 01:11:40,129
♪ Now I speak into an answer phone ♪
1233
01:11:40,963 --> 01:11:45,134
♪ Every fallen leaf on a breeze ♪
1234
01:11:48,637 --> 01:11:50,055
♪ Leave it alone ♪
1235
01:11:52,433 --> 01:11:56,353
♪ If you go ♪
1236
01:11:57,021 --> 01:12:01,608
♪ If you go your way and I go mine ♪
1237
01:12:01,608 --> 01:12:05,779
♪ Are we so ♪
1238
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:10,617
♪ Are we so helpless against the tide? ♪
1239
01:12:11,285 --> 01:12:15,039
♪ Darling, every dog on the street ♪
1240
01:12:15,539 --> 01:12:19,877
♪ Knows that we're in love with defeat ♪
1241
01:12:19,877 --> 01:12:24,715
♪ Are we ready to be swept off our feet ♪
1242
01:12:25,591 --> 01:12:31,847
♪ And stop chasing every breaking wave? ♪
1243
01:12:36,518 --> 01:12:40,606
[Bono] Uh, you know, the early songwriting
was just sketching really.
1244
01:12:41,774 --> 01:12:45,152
Sometimes, you know,
you've just started the song,
1245
01:12:45,861 --> 01:12:49,365
- and it might take 20 years to finish it.
- [Letterman] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
1246
01:12:50,491 --> 01:12:56,997
But then you realize this song
has been waiting for this moment.
1247
01:12:56,997 --> 01:12:58,290
Yeah.
1248
01:12:58,874 --> 01:13:03,587
♪ The sea knows just where to stop
Drowning is no sin ♪
1249
01:13:03,587 --> 01:13:08,217
♪ You know where my heart is
Same place yours has been ♪
1250
01:13:08,217 --> 01:13:13,472
♪ We've known better starts
We stop where we begin ♪
1251
01:13:14,098 --> 01:13:15,724
♪ Where we begin ♪
1252
01:13:16,225 --> 01:13:21,855
♪ If you go ♪
1253
01:13:21,855 --> 01:13:25,359
♪ Your way and I go mine ♪
1254
01:13:25,359 --> 01:13:29,655
♪ Are we so ♪
1255
01:13:30,197 --> 01:13:34,701
♪ Are we so helpless against it? ♪
1256
01:13:34,701 --> 01:13:38,789
♪ Baby, every dog on the street ♪
1257
01:13:39,415 --> 01:13:43,168
♪ Knows that we're in love with defeat ♪
1258
01:13:43,877 --> 01:13:48,799
♪ Are we ready to be swept off our feet ♪
1259
01:13:49,425 --> 01:13:55,973
♪ And stop chasing every breaking wave? ♪
1260
01:13:55,973 --> 01:13:58,100
[echoing] ♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1261
01:13:58,100 --> 01:14:01,895
♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1262
01:14:01,895 --> 01:14:08,318
[echoing] ♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1263
01:14:09,069 --> 01:14:11,488
[echoing] ♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1264
01:14:11,488 --> 01:14:15,576
♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1265
01:14:15,576 --> 01:14:18,328
[echoing] ♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1266
01:14:20,664 --> 01:14:27,629
♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1267
01:14:35,095 --> 01:14:38,307
[echoing] ♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1268
01:14:38,307 --> 01:14:41,143
[echoing] ♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1269
01:14:41,143 --> 01:14:43,854
I feel like a different person.
I have to lie down.
1270
01:14:43,854 --> 01:14:45,147
- I'm sorry.
- [Bono] Me too.
1271
01:14:45,147 --> 01:14:46,356
[chuckles] Do you really?
1272
01:14:46,356 --> 01:14:48,108
♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1273
01:14:48,108 --> 01:14:51,612
[echoing, distorted]
♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1274
01:14:51,612 --> 01:14:54,490
♪ Every breaking wave ♪
1275
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:57,784
- [song ends]
- [bell tolling]
1276
01:15:00,204 --> 01:15:04,708
[Edge] I think the thing
that we've all been given from Dublin is
1277
01:15:04,708 --> 01:15:08,212
a real connection to our regular lives.
1278
01:15:08,212 --> 01:15:12,257
Our friends are the same friends we had
when we were 15, 16.
1279
01:15:12,257 --> 01:15:14,343
[crowd cheering]
1280
01:15:15,552 --> 01:15:17,304
All of the members of the band,
1281
01:15:17,304 --> 01:15:22,017
we've been protected, I think, from the
worst excesses of rock-and-roll stardom
1282
01:15:22,017 --> 01:15:23,185
by being here.
1283
01:15:23,185 --> 01:15:24,603
- Which is a shame.
- Yeah--
1284
01:15:24,603 --> 01:15:25,854
[all laugh]
1285
01:15:26,688 --> 01:15:28,106
Two, three, four.
1286
01:15:28,106 --> 01:15:31,193
["Invisible" playing]
1287
01:15:50,504 --> 01:15:54,091
♪ It's like the room
Just cleared of smoke ♪
1288
01:15:54,091 --> 01:15:57,761
♪ You didn't even want
The heart you broke ♪
1289
01:15:58,595 --> 01:16:01,390
♪ It's yours to keep ♪
1290
01:16:02,266 --> 01:16:04,226
♪ You just might need one ♪
1291
01:16:05,102 --> 01:16:08,605
♪ I finally found my real name ♪
1292
01:16:08,605 --> 01:16:13,860
♪ I won't be me when you see me again ♪
1293
01:16:15,112 --> 01:16:18,574
♪ No, I won't be my father's son ♪
1294
01:16:20,284 --> 01:16:23,287
♪ I'm more than you know ♪
1295
01:16:23,870 --> 01:16:27,541
♪ I'm more than you see here ♪
1296
01:16:27,541 --> 01:16:31,420
♪ I'm more than you'll let me be ♪
1297
01:16:31,420 --> 01:16:34,298
♪ I'm more than you'll know ♪
1298
01:16:35,299 --> 01:16:38,802
♪ A body in a soul ♪
1299
01:16:38,802 --> 01:16:42,931
♪ You don't see me, but you will ♪
1300
01:16:42,931 --> 01:16:47,019
♪ I am not invisible ♪
1301
01:16:53,900 --> 01:16:55,902
[singers vocalizing]
1302
01:17:03,243 --> 01:17:06,830
♪ I don't dream
Not as such ♪
1303
01:17:06,830 --> 01:17:10,959
♪ I don't even think about you that much ♪
1304
01:17:11,543 --> 01:17:17,132
♪ Unless I start to think at all ♪
1305
01:17:17,924 --> 01:17:21,762
♪ Of those frozen days ♪
1306
01:17:21,762 --> 01:17:25,891
♪ And your frozen ways ♪
1307
01:17:25,891 --> 01:17:31,396
♪ They melt away
Your face like snow ♪
1308
01:17:32,939 --> 01:17:36,026
♪ I'm more than you know ♪
1309
01:17:36,610 --> 01:17:39,863
♪ I'm more than you see here ♪
1310
01:17:39,863 --> 01:17:43,867
♪ I'm more than you'll let me be ♪
1311
01:17:43,867 --> 01:17:47,829
♪ I'm more than you know ♪
1312
01:17:47,829 --> 01:17:51,500
♪ A body in a soul ♪
1313
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:55,671
♪ You don't see me, but you will ♪
1314
01:17:55,671 --> 01:17:59,966
♪ I am not invisible ♪
1315
01:18:15,941 --> 01:18:17,109
Let's try something.
1316
01:18:17,984 --> 01:18:22,572
Gonna sing, uh,
"There is no them. There's only us."
1317
01:18:22,572 --> 01:18:24,533
So you can be part of this.
1318
01:18:24,533 --> 01:18:27,327
♪ There is no them ♪
1319
01:18:28,453 --> 01:18:31,123
♪ There is no them ♪
1320
01:18:32,124 --> 01:18:35,210
♪ There's only us ♪
1321
01:18:35,794 --> 01:18:38,463
♪ There's only us ♪
1322
01:18:39,339 --> 01:18:42,509
♪ There is no them ♪
1323
01:18:42,509 --> 01:18:45,887
♪ There is no them ♪
1324
01:18:46,638 --> 01:18:49,641
♪ There's only us ♪
1325
01:18:50,308 --> 01:18:52,561
♪ There's only us ♪
1326
01:18:52,561 --> 01:18:54,020
Lift it up a little.
1327
01:18:54,020 --> 01:18:57,524
♪ There is no them ♪
1328
01:18:57,524 --> 01:19:01,194
♪ There is no them ♪
1329
01:19:01,194 --> 01:19:04,614
♪ There's only us ♪
1330
01:19:04,614 --> 01:19:07,951
♪ There's only us ♪
1331
01:19:08,660 --> 01:19:12,372
♪ There is no them ♪
1332
01:19:12,372 --> 01:19:15,625
♪ There is no them ♪
1333
01:19:16,126 --> 01:19:19,671
♪ There's only us ♪
1334
01:19:19,671 --> 01:19:23,425
♪ There's only us ♪
1335
01:19:23,425 --> 01:19:27,387
♪ There is no them ♪
1336
01:19:27,387 --> 01:19:29,389
- [crowd cheering]
- [Bono] Thank you very much.
1337
01:19:33,101 --> 01:19:34,978
I-I am shit-faced now.
1338
01:19:34,978 --> 01:19:36,813
[crowd laughing]
1339
01:19:36,813 --> 01:19:38,607
I have something to say.
1340
01:19:39,316 --> 01:19:41,151
Thanks to everybody here.
1341
01:19:41,151 --> 01:19:43,570
I've never had an experience like this.
1342
01:19:43,570 --> 01:19:46,156
I also wanna thank Ireland.
1343
01:19:46,156 --> 01:19:49,117
I mean, my God, what an education.
1344
01:19:49,951 --> 01:19:52,037
Glen, God bless you with that beard.
1345
01:19:52,037 --> 01:19:53,997
[all laugh]
1346
01:19:54,581 --> 01:19:57,000
And thank you to my hosts,
Bono and the Edge.
1347
01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:58,835
Thank you for your hospitality.
1348
01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:01,963
God bless everybody in this room.
1349
01:20:01,963 --> 01:20:03,673
[all cheering]
1350
01:20:03,673 --> 01:20:04,758
Thank you, sir.
1351
01:20:07,344 --> 01:20:10,222
- [whistles]
- Whoo!
1352
01:20:10,222 --> 01:20:12,724
By the way, Dave, I love the new look.
1353
01:20:12,724 --> 01:20:14,059
Just saying.
1354
01:20:14,059 --> 01:20:17,145
[all laughing]
1355
01:20:17,145 --> 01:20:19,314
Why do you think I bought this?
1356
01:20:19,314 --> 01:20:21,441
- [laughs]
- I got this from you.
1357
01:20:21,441 --> 01:20:22,567
[all laugh]
1358
01:20:23,735 --> 01:20:26,738
[Bono] It looks obvious now,
through the rearview mirror,
1359
01:20:26,738 --> 01:20:29,157
but the real miracle of U2 is
1360
01:20:29,157 --> 01:20:33,161
that everything we needed,
all the people we needed,
1361
01:20:33,745 --> 01:20:36,748
they've always been right there.
1362
01:20:36,748 --> 01:20:38,667
Well, that's where we began this.
1363
01:20:38,667 --> 01:20:40,919
- That's so unbelievable.
- [Bono] Yeah.
1364
01:20:40,919 --> 01:20:43,922
[traditional Irish folk music playing]
1365
01:20:45,131 --> 01:20:47,717
[Edge laughs]
1366
01:20:47,717 --> 01:20:49,803
["Forty Foot Man" playing]
1367
01:20:55,475 --> 01:21:00,313
[Bono] ♪ We came across
This Forty Foot man ♪
1368
01:21:01,857 --> 01:21:05,861
♪ A colossus on our tiny island ♪
1369
01:21:07,362 --> 01:21:11,616
♪ We nearly lost him
Up on Sandycove Strand ♪
1370
01:21:11,616 --> 01:21:12,701
♪ But he... ♪
1371
01:21:13,493 --> 01:21:17,831
♪ Being swept away was part of his plan ♪
1372
01:21:19,249 --> 01:21:21,251
[vocalizes]
1373
01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:24,337
♪ And the monster's not under the sea ♪
1374
01:21:25,505 --> 01:21:30,260
♪ Oh, the monster's sitting next to me ♪
1375
01:21:31,011 --> 01:21:34,306
♪ And he's not frightening ♪
1376
01:21:34,306 --> 01:21:35,932
♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
1377
01:21:36,808 --> 01:21:39,561
♪ He's not even biting ♪
1378
01:21:40,353 --> 01:21:41,855
♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
1379
01:21:42,647 --> 01:21:46,151
♪ His tongue is like lightning ♪
1380
01:21:46,151 --> 01:21:48,653
♪ Hoo-hoo-hoo ♪
1381
01:21:48,653 --> 01:21:52,198
♪ The Forty Foot man ♪
1382
01:21:52,198 --> 01:21:53,825
[Letterman screams]
1383
01:21:53,825 --> 01:21:58,663
♪ It can take a stranger
To see yourself ♪
1384
01:21:59,706 --> 01:22:04,461
♪ An outside eye can be of great help ♪
1385
01:22:04,461 --> 01:22:05,545
[Letterman screams]
1386
01:22:05,545 --> 01:22:10,258
♪ He's only one
But he'll pop it right out ♪
1387
01:22:10,258 --> 01:22:13,637
♪ He's a caring, sharing cyclops ♪
1388
01:22:13,637 --> 01:22:15,805
♪ Of this there's no doubt ♪
1389
01:22:17,474 --> 01:22:20,518
{\an8}♪ He's not that frightening ♪
1390
01:22:20,518 --> 01:22:22,604
{\an8}♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
1391
01:22:23,313 --> 01:22:26,608
{\an8}♪ He's not even biting ♪
1392
01:22:26,608 --> 01:22:28,443
{\an8}♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
1393
01:22:29,110 --> 01:22:32,197
{\an8}♪ His tongue is fast as lightning ♪
1394
01:22:32,781 --> 01:22:34,908
{\an8}♪ Hoo-hoo-hoo ♪
1395
01:22:35,408 --> 01:22:39,371
{\an8}♪ The Forty Foot man ♪
1396
01:22:51,758 --> 01:22:57,305
♪ Oh, what a wonderful discovery ♪
1397
01:22:58,139 --> 01:23:03,186
♪ Oh, and I find
We're laughing nervously ♪
1398
01:23:03,979 --> 01:23:07,524
♪ He's not that frightening ♪
1399
01:23:07,524 --> 01:23:09,025
♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
1400
01:23:09,818 --> 01:23:13,363
♪ He's not even biting ♪
1401
01:23:13,363 --> 01:23:15,573
♪ Hoo-hoo ♪
1402
01:23:15,573 --> 01:23:19,202
♪ A tongue like lightning ♪
1403
01:23:19,202 --> 01:23:21,955
♪ Hoo-hoo-hoo ♪
1404
01:23:21,955 --> 01:23:25,875
♪ The Forty Foot man ♪
1405
01:23:27,836 --> 01:23:32,215
♪ The Forty Foot man ♪