Bono and The Edge A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman (2023)

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Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman (2023) is a heartfelt music documentary that brings together U2 bandmates Bono and The Edge with legendary host David Letterman. Filmed in Dublin, the special blends intimate performances, personal conversations, and stories that reflect on friendship, creativity, and the power of music. With acoustic renditions of U2 classics and a warm behind-the-scenes look, this documentary is a celebration of artistry and connection.  Bono and The Edge A Sort of Homecoming 2023, Bono The Edge documentary, U2 music documentary, David Letterman special, Dublin music films, Bono 2023 documentary, The Edge 2023 documentary, U2 acoustic performances, Bono and The Edge Netflix, U2 behind the scenes, Bono The Edge interviews, U2 classics acoustic, heartfelt music documentaries, Bono and The Edge cast, Bono The Edge Letterman, must watch music films 2023, U2 documentary online, inspiring music documentaries, Dublin concert films, U2 storytelling documentary, Bono and The Edge review, Bono The Edge music journey, U2 heritage documentary, acoustic U2 songs, Bono and The Edge full movie, 2023 documentary specials, U2 legacy film, music and friendship films, Bono The Edge performance, Bono The Edge special 2023

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00:00:00Growing up in Ireland, it felt as if the future was always somewhere else.

00:00:25In our Dublin, it felt as if there were no present.

00:00:30Let alone past or future.

00:00:41In our band, we felt estranged from any traditions we could have held on to.

00:00:49And the question that began to intrigue us was, how do we fit into this story?

00:01:00I'm looking for the peanut butter cups.

00:01:08What are those?

00:01:14I don't want to touch your food.

00:01:16Oh, see, now you've touched.

00:01:17Okay.

00:01:19No.

00:01:20What's your name?

00:01:21Felix.

00:01:22Felix.

00:01:23I'm Dave.

00:01:24Nice to see you.

00:01:25I'm trying to get to Dublin.

00:01:26Take care.

00:01:27Take care.

00:01:32I'll tell you what else is great about this show tonight.

00:01:34This is the biggest, the greatest, most exciting, most influential rock and roll band in the world.

00:01:44And, and gentlemen, once again, you too.

00:01:46You too.

00:01:47Oh, my goodness.

00:01:48Oh, my goodness.

00:01:50And, and, and, and, and, and, and I.

00:01:51I'll tell you what else is great about this show tonight.

00:01:53This is the biggest, the greatest, most exciting, most influential rock and roll band in the world.

00:01:57influential rock and roll band in the world and gentlemen once again you too

00:02:13oh my goodness great pleasure to see you again see you thank you for letting me be part of this

00:02:18good god what expectations you have set for yourself writer poetry and prose musician

00:02:25something else i forgot my um self-esteem never been lower i just i just want to tell you

00:02:32the door is now closed you and i are not going to be best friends do you like retrospectives of

00:02:40yourself do you like looking over your shoulder at this point in your life no okay well that's all

00:02:45we need thank you very much let's talk about music years of reflection has caused you to change

00:02:53lyrics in some of these songs some of them you thought perhaps were never finished in the first

00:02:58place yeah that's right we wanted to sort of strip away the artifice that inevitably emerges after

00:03:06you've been around this long in the isolation of the pandemic it was almost like the question became

00:03:15what is left when everything is stripped away where do you take it all right yeah let's take it from

00:03:22the top do you do you want to know what i did during the pandemic what did you do calligraphy

00:03:29really yeah i've gotten very good wow yeah

00:03:50in between tours while larry was injured and adam was off making an art film

00:03:59and i asked david letterman to dublin to talk about our songs

00:04:13and there was certainly a part of me that wanted to hear them again as if for the first time

00:04:19and we ask ourselves the nervous question is there any merit to these songs if you take away the

00:04:29firepower of a rock band like you too hold on um technical there everything dropped out

00:04:39okay yes i don't know how we're going to lift this can we try it slow down boom

00:04:44there is no there there is no there there is no there there's only us there's only us

00:05:06arpeggiating thing it might work for you to tickle your instrument doesn't wear

00:05:11there's only us and all of you when you're singing at the end make it a kind of almost an aura you know

00:05:35there's only us great

00:05:44what a room sounds really beautiful and we got his daveness yes sir to dublin where where is day

00:05:59oh geez they're still alive

00:06:00hello man hi hello how are you how about this wow it's your first time here first my first time

00:06:14in dublin my first time out of the house as a matter of fact tell us a little bit about this

00:06:19establishment indole reggae store the only reggae shop in island the only reggae shop in island yeah i'm

00:06:25interested in a wheel of cheese i've never purchased a wheel of cheese i would like to buy two hats for

00:06:33friends of mine their heads are the ones about like this and ones about like that is there anyone

00:06:40here that can help an old man carrying a cheese i'd like to welcome you all today to the youtube walking

00:06:47tour there are certain bands when i listen to them i just see streetscapes open up before me and dublin and

00:06:53you too is deeply connected in october 77 a great british punk band called the clash played two gigs in

00:07:02the examination hall of trinity college dublin and in the crowd was a young impressionable bono

00:07:11seeing the clash on stage singing these angry songs was a moment of awakening later on when they're

00:07:18arguably the biggest band in the world they never really forget this part of dublin and everything

00:07:25it does for them i i was told there would be a hot meal

00:07:31let's go back

00:07:43exactly what you don't want to do how old were you kids when you got together and so 76 i would have been

00:07:52uh 15 15. 15. that at age 11 i went to that school for one year they asked me to leave had they not

00:08:05have i would not have met this man really that's correct tell me about your relationship with the

00:08:13band when did that begin february 82 and you became very close with them close enough make sure you

00:08:21get some sun on your face yeah you're all about shadows aren't you but you are part of the family

00:08:28have you seen them obviously they've changed over the years since you met them um they're the same

00:08:34people in a way i have to say okay the edge this is your calendar shot monday morning 18 years of dawning

00:08:48i said how long i said how long it was one i'd say the band was born out of the culture of a particular

00:08:59high school at a particular time and it was a social experiment in our country it's it's non-denominational

00:09:12people of any religion can come and more importantly to me girls and boys boys and girls they go to school

00:09:23and girls can make children well not like this one we invented a whole culture of our own amongst our

00:09:36friends we called ourselves lipton village i can't remember why and in lipton village all our friends

00:09:44were given their own unique nicknames that's where i got the name the edge bono's village name was

00:09:53bono box of o'connell street the the hearing aid store right and this was part of a pushback

00:09:59against the conservative society that we were part of so here we have the edge yeah bono then we have

00:10:11adam then we have larry when you hear what their original village names were you would understand why

00:10:17they didn't run with larry's was he was known as the jam jar the jam jar adam was mrs burns

00:10:26bass player is called mrs burns yeah hey we got spirit we got soul my brothers and i are out of control

00:10:37we had no aspirations beyond just something fun to do on a saturday afternoon but then weirdly as we

00:10:46started to play together and at first atrociously badly we recognized some chemistry there

00:10:57my uh uh nickname dumbass yeah

00:11:01you and i last saw one another in the early aughts the early aughts we were on doing your show our

00:11:16next guests are a pair of talented singer-songwriters who star in the motion picture once in those days i

00:11:21don't think you and i talked much of anything other than here he is and thank you and good night

00:11:27yeah you stuck your head into the room we said a quick hello it was a big deal other than that

00:11:32we were all told avoid david and don't look me in the eyes that's what we were told yeah hi glenn

00:11:37that was beautiful excuse me your eyes by the way stunningly beautiful oh thank you david uh explain

00:11:43where we are we're in dublin well we're in greystone so we're on the kind of southern edge of the

00:11:48the swerve of shore bend of bay to quote joyce we're in uh yeah oh you've been here less than a minute

00:11:54and you're quoting joyce good lord you know i'm meeting you i have to i have to impress you with

00:11:58the irishness we're going to talk about your buddies you too yeah well i've known them pretty

00:12:05much all my life when i was 10 years old my uncle took me to see the police but the opening band was you

00:12:13too oh my god yeah yeah and everyone the whole like this guy came on stage and he was like he was

00:12:28possessed everybody left going who were they and they were irish they were dublin they were from the

00:12:42same town i'm from and so we all became obsessed it didn't sound like anything else not just in

00:12:55ireland but actually almost anything else we were hearing from america or from britain you two were

00:13:00completely different so not just america uh but globally why do people respond uh emotionally

00:13:12to this music well the first time you you you heard i will follow on the radio at that time

00:13:19everything was trying to show how much you were against everything you know youtube was trying to

00:13:23express something with this force of sincerity they had a purpose and they had an earnestness in

00:13:32their music that you could easily dismiss because bono was just he was like uh he was strident with

00:13:38something pure the first album was made i would have been 18 so we were kids really when we started

00:13:49did you have a vision for your future at all or was it day to day week to week it was about our

00:13:54concerts and about you know the u2 audience live that gave us a constant sense of moving up and moving

00:14:02forward it was a complete game changer you two kind of cleared the decks like any bands that were going

00:14:13you two were suddenly boom nobody ever would have thought it would be you two would be the band because

00:14:20they were kind of just like awkward and but they had something they had a kind of they were that a message

00:14:25in their song

00:14:39you want to go see a youtube show a free uh u2 show oh yeah you've been with the band youtube yes have you ever

00:14:48seen them live uh not live believe it or not they're doing a show in town here tomorrow night

00:14:54yeah uh you should come to the show just mention my name and you'll get in and say dave said it would

00:15:01be okay if i came yeah okay i'd love to yeah that'd be a pleasure there you should for god's sakes you

00:15:06should go yes my work here is finished but i think what's interesting now is that i think there's they're

00:15:12going back to the beginning again your biggest competition is wanting to be safe it feels really

00:15:20good to sell 20 million albums or whatever the heck it is and you know what that sounds like

00:15:27but to say no we're going to change it and we're going to bring our audience with us

00:15:33how do you think is uh warm up the edge uh let me guess your biggest foe there is your fear of moving forward

00:15:48now i see the problem with these is they don't tell you where to go uh we'll find our way

00:16:03this is a bit of a day isn't it lovely

00:16:16what a venue yes yes there's everything you do still within your comfort zone

00:16:23rarely yeah i'm rarely in my comfort zone and i and i think that's been difficult for the band

00:16:28because i don't let them be in it either for me music and songwriting is it's just you know heart

00:16:37surgery

00:16:47oh no thank you very much

00:16:50thank you do we have an idea of what we're in for tonight

00:16:58you will be very very happy you did have this experience are you ready bono and the edge

00:17:18you will be very happy you will be happy you will be happy you will be happy you will be happy

00:17:25let's go down it's dark the jungle is your head can't rule your heart feeling so much stronger

00:17:33than a thought your eyes are white and know your soul it can't be bought your mind can wander

00:17:39hello hello

00:17:41hola

00:17:43let please go vertigo

00:17:45it's everything i wish i'd hidden on

00:17:49you give me something i can feel

00:17:59night is full of holes this blood strip sky ink with gold

00:18:05the sparklers and boys play rock and roll they know that they can't dance

00:18:11least they know i can't stand the beats

00:18:14masking for the check

00:18:15girl the crimson nails got jesus around the neck

00:18:19swing into the music swing into the music

00:18:22oh

00:18:28hello hello

00:18:29hello hello

00:18:31there are a place called vertigo

00:18:33it's everything i wish i didn't love

00:18:36yeah give me something i can feel

00:18:41well

00:18:43i can feel

00:18:46!!!!

00:18:47yeah

00:18:49and tell me where i am

00:18:51and tell you who you are

00:18:54and tell you who you are

00:18:55let's see

00:18:57let's see

00:18:59let's see

00:19:00let's see

00:19:02I'm

00:19:03All of this, all of this can be yours

00:19:21All of this, all of this can be yours

00:19:25Just give me what I want and no one gets

00:19:28Hello, hello

00:19:34Better please come and go

00:19:38Everything I wish I didn't know

00:19:42Will you give me something

00:19:44I can feel your love teaching me how

00:19:50Your love is teaching me how

00:19:56I will be yours

00:20:02Be, yeah

00:20:04Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

00:20:10Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

00:20:14The genesis of the band is always linked with religious, Christian influence.

00:20:31To me that sounds unusual when you compare to the United States with a rock and roll band

00:20:37It's kids smoking weed in their garage and wanting to meet girls

00:20:41We'll get to that

00:20:43Is that because of Ireland?

00:20:46Well, I should draw you a map

00:20:48Okay, so just give me a second until I get a rough Ireland for you

00:20:53Okay, that's close enough

00:20:55So we live in a tiny island in the North Sea

00:20:58Brutalized by occasional bad weather

00:21:00And some difficult neighbors

00:21:02And in the country of Northern Ireland

00:21:05The Northern Protestants outnumbered the Catholics

00:21:10What caused the border to be established?

00:21:13Our war of independence

00:21:14So who do I dislike in this?

00:21:17I'm eager to dislike somebody

00:21:19I'm part of the great divide

00:21:20I want to dislike

00:21:21Should I dislike the British?

00:21:23No, no

00:21:24Okay, whoever you don't like, I don't like

00:21:26So the chief among the differences here still would be the religion?

00:21:30Well, yeah

00:21:31When we were kids, we were in the middle of the troubles

00:21:36British troops called to break up a protest

00:21:39Kill 13 Catholics

00:21:40It was just a constant drip, drip, drip

00:21:44When we were forming the band

00:21:45So we were looking for a way to express our faith

00:21:51That wasn't obviously religious

00:21:52And there was a kind of movement in Ireland

00:21:55In the late 70s

00:21:57Which was called Charismatic Renewal

00:22:00And we met some religious people

00:22:04They had no possessions particularly

00:22:06They lived a very disciplined life

00:22:08We thought they were a bit punk rock, actually

00:22:10And they seemed to accept us for who we are

00:22:14But they kind of started to become much more

00:22:17Like a conventional church

00:22:19And it was then that the leadership sort of came to us

00:22:22And said, look, you should be full-time for God

00:22:25And not this rock and roll thing

00:22:27Music was just something that we had to give up

00:22:29Because these people felt rock and roll was kind of nonsense

00:22:33And that the real job was fixing a broken world

00:22:37And Edge was in some kind of, yeah, agony

00:22:43So it was taken that seriously

00:22:45So it was taken that seriously that it might actually put an end to the band

00:22:47Yeah

00:22:48Because if we are to be useful, as it were, in music

00:22:54Well, what is, how's that going to look?

00:22:56So I spent this couple of weeks really trying to figure out what felt right

00:23:03And Edge was still nagging at us

00:23:06And the actual answer came in the shape of a song

00:23:12That Edge started

00:23:14And then on one particular day

00:23:20This rage poured out

00:23:23This frustration at not being able to write

00:23:27Not knowing if I should be in a rock and roll band

00:23:30What the future might hold

00:23:34How old were you at this point?

00:23:36Maybe 21

00:23:36Can't believe the news today

00:23:40I can't close my eyes and make it go away

00:23:47This was alchemy

00:23:49And I was watching it

00:23:51I was standing beside it

00:23:52I saw this transformation of internal rage to external

00:23:58How long, how long must we sing this song?

00:24:06How long, how long

00:24:08Tonight

00:24:13We can be as one tonight

00:24:19And I was like, whew

00:24:22Ah, that's why I'm in a band

00:24:24That's why I'm with this dude

00:24:26That song, Sunday Bloody Sunday

00:24:28It was a way to feel our music could mean something

00:24:33Outside of just itself

00:24:43We got this broadcast on RTE

00:24:45Of you two at Red Rocks

00:24:48Oh, yes

00:24:49You could tell from the beginning

00:24:53They were trying to go stratospheric

00:24:55So here's a guy

00:25:03Singing about Catholics and Protestants

00:25:06In the north of Ireland

00:25:07In America

00:25:08You two had gone

00:25:10And made our case

00:25:12In front of millions of Americans

00:25:15And we were getting to see it on TV

00:25:17And we were gobsmacked

00:25:18Sing no more

00:25:20No more

00:25:22No more

00:25:23No more

00:25:25No more

00:25:27No more

00:25:28No more

00:25:29No more

00:25:30No more

00:25:31Wipe your tears away

00:25:34Wipe your tears away

00:25:38Wipe your blood

00:25:41Shut our eyes

00:25:43Wipe your tears away

00:25:46Because it becomes a hymn

00:25:48Yeah

00:25:48A hymn of despair

00:25:50Of yearning

00:25:53Just even expressing that

00:25:56Even though it's a pretty bleak thought

00:25:58Giving it expression

00:25:59Gives people a lot of courage

00:26:02And consolation

00:26:04I'm so sick of you

00:26:07So right now

00:26:13We've got peace in Ireland

00:26:14Eventually

00:26:16I don't know when it will be

00:26:17I hope it's in my lifetime

00:26:18When the border goes away

00:26:20Because it's kind of ridiculous

00:26:22Having a border

00:26:22On an island this size

00:26:25And the north and the south

00:26:27Will hopefully

00:26:28Have more respect for each other

00:26:30That would be nice

00:26:31Before it was a cinema

00:26:36This was part of

00:26:38Rotunda Hospital

00:26:38This very room

00:26:39I was born here

00:26:41Yes I was

00:26:42Brendan Bean said

00:26:44If you weren't born in the Rotunda

00:26:45You weren't a proper Dubliner

00:26:47So there you go

00:26:49This next song is the first song

00:26:52Really we wrote about Dublin

00:26:55In the 70s

00:26:57It's a very different Dublin

00:26:59Than it is today

00:27:01A very different country

00:27:03Very bad

00:27:05And we called a song bad

00:27:22If I twist and turn away

00:27:32If I tear myself in two again

00:27:41If I could

00:27:46No I would

00:27:47If I could

00:27:49I would

00:27:52Let it come

00:27:53Surrender

00:27:59This is a song

00:28:02Of surrender

00:28:03Could any of this have happened

00:28:05Anywhere but Dublin?

00:28:07Not just because you knew each other

00:28:08But Dublin

00:28:09We're around

00:28:10As Ireland moves

00:28:12From black and white into colour

00:28:14Could throw this lifeless

00:28:16Lifeline to the wind

00:28:19The country was trying to identify itself

00:28:22Who are we?

00:28:23Are we buying this myth

00:28:25That we've been sold

00:28:26Or are we going to be something more extraordinary?

00:28:29Into the lives

00:28:31And that's what all four members of you two

00:28:35Had in common with the country

00:28:37You can only have it all

00:28:42If you give it all away

00:28:46You can only have it all

00:28:51If you give it all away

00:28:56To let it go

00:29:03To let it go

00:29:15To let it go

00:29:17So not to fade away

00:29:23To let it go

00:29:26So not to fade away

00:29:32So not to fade away

00:29:32A wide away

00:29:36A wide away

00:29:42A wide away

00:29:42Wide away

00:29:46I'm not sleeping

00:29:50Oh no

00:29:53I'm not sleeping

00:29:59Oh no

00:30:02See I wasn't wrong about this

00:30:16Was I folks?

00:30:17It's a wonderful night

00:30:18By the way

00:30:20Do you know who's doing a show tonight

00:30:21At Crow Park Stadium?

00:30:24Adam and Larry

00:30:25Yeah

00:30:26I hear it's great

00:30:28I'm sure it is

00:30:30Let me ask you a question about songwriting

00:30:33When you're writing a song

00:30:35And you end up with

00:30:36Who, who, who, who

00:30:38Who provided that inspiration?

00:30:42I'm telling you it's lovely

00:30:43But who says

00:30:44Okay here's where you do

00:30:45Who, who

00:30:47We like to ask the big question

00:30:50So we start with who

00:30:51And we eventually get to why

00:30:54So we'll hear why, why later

00:30:56Yeah

00:30:56And when

00:30:57It's coming

00:30:58That's a full night

00:31:00Isn't it folks?

00:31:05Going back to the why

00:31:06Of you two

00:31:07You gotta stay with the why

00:31:10And I think the band

00:31:12Were on the same page

00:31:13In this one

00:31:14Yeah they wanted to entertain

00:31:16But they didn't want to

00:31:18Just entertain

00:31:19They wanted to do something great

00:31:21Something that spiritually

00:31:23Affected people

00:31:26And that's the why

00:31:29And that's the why

00:31:29We grew up as a band

00:31:47On a live stage

00:31:48That's that's how we learned

00:31:50To do what we do

00:31:51And by the street

00:31:52And when I wrote the music

00:31:55I set myself

00:31:57A specific

00:31:59Sort of thought exercise

00:32:01Of what would I want

00:32:03To listen to

00:32:04If I was in the audience

00:32:06What would blow me away

00:32:08Please do it again

00:32:10Because this is an experience

00:32:11I'll never get again

00:32:13In my life

00:32:13Of soul

00:32:14Road streets for no name

00:32:35Is an unusual brew

00:32:37Of a song

00:32:38The lyric

00:32:39Is not very

00:32:41Fleshed out

00:32:42But the suggestion

00:32:44Contained in the lyric

00:32:45Is gigantic

00:32:46And what it seems

00:32:49To suggest is

00:32:51There's a transcendent place

00:32:53We can go to

00:32:54Together

00:32:55Do you want to come?

00:32:57I want to run

00:33:03I want to hide

00:33:07I want to tear down the walls

00:33:13And hold me in silence

00:33:16I want to reach out

00:33:19And touch the flame

00:33:22Where the streets have no name

00:33:28Our band is

00:33:31The chemistry set

00:33:32Where the streets have no name

00:33:34Chemical reaction

00:33:35Between our audience and us

00:33:37That's what makes

00:33:38A good band great

00:33:40Still building

00:33:41And burning down

00:33:43Burning down

00:33:47And when I go there

00:33:51I go there with you

00:33:54It's all I can do

00:33:57Explain to me the connection

00:34:07Between where the streets have no name

00:34:09To Super Bowl XXXVI

00:34:11Six months after the September 11th attack

00:34:14I recall grappling with

00:34:18The concept of America

00:34:21And what it meant to me

00:34:23And what it might mean

00:34:24Around the world

00:34:25And this is a fragile moment

00:34:28I wanted to use some exhortation

00:34:35Taking away normal spectacle

00:34:38And turning it into

00:34:40A monument of rolling names

00:34:42The Super Bowl halftimes

00:34:44Are about spectacle

00:34:45But the greatest spectacles

00:34:48Are emotions

00:34:50I've come to understand

00:35:08The connection

00:35:08About spirituality

00:35:10And religion

00:35:11You feel that

00:35:14And it doesn't

00:35:15Doesn't hit you over the head

00:35:16But it's palpable

00:35:18For sure

00:35:18Well for me too

00:35:27I want to feel that

00:35:28That's my drug of choice

00:35:30The feeling of

00:35:31Not writing a song

00:35:33But being sung by the song

00:35:35Sounds a little arty

00:35:36But it's not

00:35:37You feel it

00:35:38Strongly coming through you

00:35:40You know

00:35:41And Brian Eno

00:35:43Who said to us

00:35:44You know

00:35:46You should not be

00:35:48Concerned with things

00:35:49Like being cool

00:35:50That would be uncool for you

00:35:52Just be yourself

00:35:54Right

00:35:54You know

00:35:55And I look back now

00:35:57And I realise

00:35:58That's U2's thing

00:35:59Ecstatic music

00:36:00Because you're in that

00:36:08You have to have the courage

00:36:09To jump off the building

00:36:12And believe you can fly

00:36:13The heart is a bloom

00:36:15It shoots up through the stony ground

00:36:20But there's no room

00:36:23No space to rent in this town

00:36:27You're out of luck

00:36:29And the reason that you had to care

00:36:35The traffic is stuck

00:36:37You're not moving anywhere

00:36:41You thought you'd found a friend

00:36:45To take you out of this place

00:36:49Someone that you could lend a hand

00:36:53In return for grace

00:36:56It's a beautiful day

00:37:00Sky falls, you feel like

00:37:04It's a beautiful day

00:37:06You're on the road

00:37:12She got no destination

00:37:18You're in the mud

00:37:20In the maze of her imagination

00:37:25You love this time

00:37:28Even if that doesn't ring true

00:37:33Even if that doesn't ring true

00:37:33It's been over

00:37:35And it's been over you

00:37:39It's a beautiful day

00:37:44Let it get away

00:37:47It's a beautiful day

00:37:50Touch me now

00:37:57Take me to that other place

00:38:01Teach me love

00:38:05I know I'm not a hopeless case

00:38:09See, that's what's interesting

00:38:11When did the tongue go into the cheek?

00:38:13Because I think that's what saved you two

00:38:15And they kind of got the rock star thing

00:38:18And the humour entered what they were doing

00:38:21Because they were the pilgrims

00:38:22They were the guys going to America

00:38:24With the Christian mindset

00:38:26And suddenly they were the rock stars

00:38:28Suddenly they were on a different train

00:38:30And it really worked

00:38:31See the bird with a leaf in her mouth

00:38:35After the flood

00:38:37All the colours came out

00:38:39It was a beautiful day

00:38:47Let it get away

00:38:52Beautiful day

00:38:54Yeah, yeah

00:38:59Touch me now

00:39:03Take me to that other place

00:39:06Reach me

00:39:10I know I'm not a hopeless case

00:39:13What you don't have

00:39:16You don't need it now

00:39:18What you don't know

00:39:20You can feel it somehow

00:39:22What you don't have

00:39:23You don't need it now

00:39:26Don't need it now

00:39:30How it must feel to be a bird

00:39:48I need help here

00:39:51Because Ireland is a young country

00:39:53Roaming lonely over sea

00:39:57And what I knew of Ireland growing up

00:40:01Was it was controlled religiously

00:40:03And then it changed

00:40:04And it changed quickly

00:40:06How did it happen here?

00:40:08The world into which you two are coming

00:40:11As a society

00:40:12Which has been kind of liberalising

00:40:14But is now going back

00:40:16You know

00:40:16It's getting cold feet

00:40:18About do we really want to change

00:40:20Do we really want to become more modern

00:40:21And this band comes into the middle of that

00:40:29And I think they formed a kind of critical bridge

00:40:32From being a conservative society

00:40:39To being the place it is now

00:40:40Which is a very open, tolerant society

00:40:42Oh my god

00:40:48Are those real diamonds?

00:40:50Holy god

00:40:51Dead

00:40:52Dead

00:40:52You can't leave the building with those

00:40:55Dressing like a woman makes a lot of money

00:40:57In this culture

00:40:58This is your first time to Ireland, right?

00:41:01You need to get out more, Dave

00:41:03Well, that's true in almost every aspect of my life

00:41:06Like many things in my life

00:41:08I'm operating from a position of ignorance

00:41:12I'm an open book, Dave

00:41:13You can ask whatever you want

00:41:14Okay, all right

00:41:15I'm unshockable

00:41:16That's good

00:41:17So is it safe to say that Ireland

00:41:19Was among the most repressive

00:41:21Toward homosexuality

00:41:23And has now become

00:41:25Almost the diametric opposite?

00:41:27Yes

00:41:27I grew up in a country

00:41:30That would absolutely repress

00:41:32Any hint of sexuality

00:41:33Dillon, all through the 80s

00:41:36Was this grey

00:41:38Aggressively normal

00:41:40If you know what I mean

00:41:41Kind of plays

00:41:42Homosexuality wasn't even heard of

00:41:45You know, when I was a high school student in the 80s

00:41:48U2's albums were

00:41:50They exploded

00:41:51Did you respond to those as a kid?

00:41:53See, I didn't

00:41:54I unfairly maligned U2

00:41:57Because to me at that time

00:41:59They were part and parcel of this culture

00:42:03This sort of straight boy rock culture

00:42:06That I felt absolutely rejected by

00:42:09So I left

00:42:10I went to Japan

00:42:11To live and work and do this

00:42:14And while I was living there

00:42:17U2 came and performed

00:42:19And I started to see

00:42:22Oh actually this U2 is not the U2 that I

00:42:25You know, unfairly maligned

00:42:26What I saw on the stage in Tokyo

00:42:29Was outward looking

00:42:31And you know, sexy and fun

00:42:33Your precious stone

00:42:36Maybe I'm overselling it

00:42:37But they were part of the reason

00:42:39Then in the end

00:42:40That I ended up coming back eventually

00:42:42I saw a video of you on stage

00:42:52With Bono and the band

00:42:54Oh right

00:42:55It wasn't long after

00:43:02The same-sex marriage referendum

00:43:04I was the first country in the world ever

00:43:06To bring in same-sex marriage

00:43:07To popular vote

00:43:08One thing here

00:43:10So Bono gives you the microphone

00:43:11Do you remember what you said?

00:43:14I don't actually

00:43:15Have you something to say to your people?

00:43:18I'd just like to say

00:43:18I think this might be

00:43:19The straightest audience

00:43:20I've ever played to

00:43:21I would have to check that David

00:43:24That sounds like work

00:43:25And I don't like to do work

00:43:26So I would just like to say

00:43:27On behalf of people like me

00:43:29Thanks a million

00:43:30We really appreciate it

00:43:32Let's get married

00:43:34See I found my way back

00:43:35Over the years

00:43:36But not because I changed

00:43:38I'm still the same idiot

00:43:40I was then

00:43:41But this country changed

00:43:43Like dramatically

00:43:45You two was part of what

00:43:48Allowed Ireland to stand in its own defeat

00:43:50Actually we have our own thing

00:43:51I appreciated that at the time

00:43:53And I still do now

00:43:54Well good for you

00:43:55And do you have any questions for me?

00:43:57Yeah

00:43:58I think you've always been

00:43:59Kind of a low-key fashion icon Dave

00:44:01You look like a cool dude now

00:44:03Cool dude

00:44:04What is you now Dave?

00:44:0675

00:44:07You are a cool looking 75

00:44:09What do I do about the chest pains?

00:44:12Oh

00:44:12Dave if you get chest pains and die here

00:44:15I'll be cashing in for years

00:44:17I'll have a blue plaque out there

00:44:19Dave Letterman died here

00:44:21There's several theaters in the world

00:44:24Where I died

00:44:25But this would be an honor to die here

00:44:28Thank you for that

00:44:29Thank you so much

00:44:30Your work in particular

00:44:40Presents a difficult choice

00:44:42You're torn

00:44:44And there is maybe an ultimatum

00:44:46Which way are we going to go here?

00:44:48Is it going to be this?

00:44:49Is it going to be that?

00:44:50Give us your soul

00:44:53Your soul

00:44:56Your soul

00:44:59And I think you even speculated

00:45:01That it was that tension

00:45:03That was useful to you creatively

00:45:05That's exactly

00:45:06You know if you spoke to Keith Richards

00:45:08I mean one of the things

00:45:10He's always been great on

00:45:12Is duality

00:45:12He'd say duality

00:45:14Is this Mona Lisa's face?

00:45:17Is it sad?

00:45:19Is it happy?

00:45:20Duality

00:45:29Duality

00:45:31Is the song

00:45:32You know

00:45:33Tears but I'm dancing

00:45:34That's the U2 thing

00:45:36You're right in the middle of that

00:45:38My life

00:45:46Opened up as an artist

00:45:48When I realized you don't have to resolve every contradiction

00:45:53In fact right at the center of a contradiction

00:45:56Is the place to be

00:45:58Is it getting better?

00:46:02Do you feel the same?

00:46:08Will it make it easier on you now?

00:46:13You got someone to blame?

00:46:15You got someone to blame

00:46:18You say

00:46:20One love

00:46:21One life

00:46:24It's one meal

00:46:27In the night

00:46:29One love

00:46:32Get to share it

00:46:33Get to share it

00:46:34Leaves you

00:46:36Leaves you baby

00:46:37You don't care for it

00:46:40Did I disappoint you?

00:46:54Leave a bad taste in your mouth

00:47:00You act like you never had love

00:47:04And you want me to go without

00:47:09Well it's too late

00:47:14Tonight

00:47:15To drag the dirt out into the light

00:47:21One

00:47:22Well we're not the same

00:47:26We get to carry each other

00:47:28Carry each other

00:47:31One

00:47:32One

00:47:33Have you come here for forgiveness?

00:47:45Have you come to raise the debt?

00:47:51Have you come here to play Jesus?

00:47:57To the lepers in your bed?

00:48:02Did I ask too much?

00:48:06More than a lot

00:48:08You gave me nothing else

00:48:11All I've got

00:48:13One

00:48:15But we're not the same

00:48:17Yeah

00:48:18We hurt each other

00:48:20Then we do it again

00:48:22You say

00:48:24Love is a temple

00:48:26Love a higher law

00:48:28Love is a temple

00:48:29Love a higher law

00:48:31Love is a temple

00:48:32Love a higher law

00:48:33Love a higher law

00:48:34You ask me to enter

00:48:36Then you make me cry

00:48:38You can't be hold on

00:48:40You can't be hold on

00:48:42To what you've got

00:48:45When all you've got is hurt

00:48:48One love

00:48:50One blood

00:48:53One life

00:48:55Got to do what you should

00:48:57All lying

00:49:01With each other

00:49:03Sister

00:49:06Brother

00:49:25Ireland is about 100 years old

00:49:28And the band is about 50 years old

00:49:30Which is more unlikely

00:49:31That Ireland is 100 and better than ever

00:49:34And the band 50 years in

00:49:36To that question I would say it's probably the fact that we're

00:49:40A band for this long is the more remarkable thing

00:49:43We kind of grew up working together and learnt how to be

00:49:49You know, people of the world because of our band

00:49:52So we're probably to some extent all a little institutionalised

00:49:56By being in U2 this long

00:50:02I don't know that I could work with my friends in a creative arena

00:50:06For any length of time

00:50:08There's many times in the past I think that that might have been

00:50:11Just pushing our luck a little too far

00:50:16Friendship

00:50:18It's deeply part of who we are

00:50:19But you could lose that along the way

00:50:22But we had to work on it

00:50:23Do you embarrass the band?

00:50:27Yes, I do

00:50:28My activism

00:50:33As the band would accept

00:50:35Is fairly unhip work

00:50:38If you're in a rock and roll band

00:50:41You don't want to be in the photograph with some people

00:50:44That might be polar opposite to the values that you hold dear

00:50:49And I did that to them

00:50:51And I'll say it's extraordinary on a few levels

00:50:54Because, you know, it's bad for both of our images

00:50:58When I was working with Jesse Helms

00:51:01And we did great work together

00:51:06Edge just said please, just please

00:51:09Whatever you do

00:51:11Don't bring Jesse Helms

00:51:12Who personally dismantled the National Endowment for the Arts

00:51:17Do not bring him to a U2 show

00:51:19And I brought him to a U2 show

00:51:21And I brought him to a U2 show

00:51:25It was very hard for us

00:51:26Yeah

00:51:27There's a lot of tension created by that

00:51:31I wouldn't have done it, I guess

00:51:33I probably wouldn't have done it

00:51:35Yeah, it's an awkward one

00:51:39It's an awkward one

00:51:42You know, I'm turning what we create as a band

00:51:45Into currency that I choose to spend in these areas

00:51:52And they, by and large, support me

00:51:56But I do know I test their patience

00:52:01And do you feel that this relationship

00:52:02To getting stronger as you guys get older?

00:52:05Yeah, I think we acknowledge each other's idiosyncrasies

00:52:10And they're not, it's not threatening

00:52:12And we're also not in competition

00:52:15It's just part of the way

00:52:18I suppose we show respect to each other

00:52:23We have an unusual relationship

00:52:28As I often explain to the audience

00:52:30Edges from the future

00:52:34And as I often ask him

00:52:36How is it?

00:52:37Which he will always

00:52:38Reply

00:52:39Better

00:52:42Hi guys

00:52:43This is digital

00:52:44It's not actually me

00:52:45It's not video

00:52:46I'm confused

00:52:47That's not you

00:52:48That's not a human being

00:52:49No

00:52:49It's a rendering of me as an avatar

00:52:52It's a virtual version of me

00:52:54A replica

00:52:55Imagine if we could take that

00:52:56I just promise me you'll always use this for good not evil

00:53:00The thing I don't like

00:53:10The thing I don't like about you

00:53:14The thing I don't like about Edge is that he

00:53:16He doesn't need me

00:53:18I mean he could be doing

00:53:20All of this

00:53:22Writing, singing, performing, playing, producing on his own

00:53:27But he doesn't

00:53:30Because it's not as much fun

00:53:31I am not afraid

00:53:39Of anything in this world

00:53:41There's nothing you can throw at me

00:53:44That I haven't already heard

00:53:47I'm just trying to find

00:53:49A decent melody

00:53:51A song that I can sing

00:53:54In my own company

00:53:55Your best friends are the ones that you can have the best arguments with

00:54:02And I've got pretty much the best arguments you can ever find right here

00:54:07You wanna stand up straight

00:54:10Carry on away

00:54:12These tears are going nowhere, baby

00:54:16I would trust the Edge with my life

00:54:19In fact, I have trusted him with my life

00:54:21So you got stuck in a moment

00:54:25Yeah, that was a good call

00:54:27Stuck in the moment

00:54:31You got to get yourself together

00:54:35You got stuck in the morning

00:54:38Now you can't get out of bed

00:54:41Don't say that

00:54:43Later we'll be better

00:54:45Now you're stuck in the morning

00:54:49And you can't get out

00:54:52And if the night was over

00:54:58And if the day won't last

00:55:03And if your wish should fall to

00:55:08Along the story pairs

00:55:12It's just a moment

00:55:14And if the night was over

00:55:16And if the night was over

00:55:17And if the day won't last

00:55:19And if the day won't last

00:55:21And if your wish should falter

00:55:23And if your wish should falter

00:55:27Along that stony pass

00:55:31It's just a moment

00:55:33It's just a moment

00:55:35It's just a moment

00:55:37It's just a moment

00:55:41It's just a moment

00:55:43It's just a moment

00:55:46It's just a moment

00:55:48Oh, this, you feel like you're in Ireland here, eh?

00:56:07What is this called?

00:56:08This is the 40 foot?

00:56:09Yeah.

00:56:10Tell us what, why are you here and then why?

00:56:14Well, I'm here to swim.

00:56:15But did you lose a bet?

00:56:16No.

00:56:17No, sorry.

00:56:17Well, explain the routine.

00:56:19Every morning, there's a crowd of swimmers and we all meet up.

00:56:22Every season.

00:56:23Summer, spring, winter, fall.

00:56:25Yeah.

00:56:26Hello.

00:56:27How is everyone?

00:56:29There's a man in a Santa hat.

00:56:32He swims here every day.

00:56:34We're going to say that that's me.

00:56:36Okay.

00:56:36There I am.

00:56:37There's Dave.

00:56:39So do you want me to swim with Dave?

00:56:40Yeah, go down and swim.

00:56:41Yes, please do.

00:56:42Because I'm freezing now.

00:56:45Could you get in?

00:56:46No, no.

00:56:47I can make that sound without getting in.

00:56:49Oh, is that kelp?

00:56:51Oh, my God.

00:56:57This is like there's been some shipwreck.

00:57:00But yet we found the survivors.

00:57:02How was that?

00:57:05It was actually very nice.

00:57:06You enjoyed it?

00:57:07I feel brilliant.

00:57:08You're happy to be alive?

00:57:10Oh, yeah.

00:57:10It's amazing.

00:57:11You go in to see one person and come out another.

00:57:13Well, that's lovely to hear.

00:57:14It's great change, yeah.

00:57:15You should try it.

00:57:16Yeah.

00:57:16What, when I get back to the hotel and try it in the pool?

00:57:19Yeah.

00:57:19Traditionally, this was only for men.

00:57:23So women never came in.

00:57:23Until 1974.

00:57:25Yeah, yeah.

00:57:25And then women were allowed.

00:57:27I was here when the women rushed in and popped in there and swam in there naked.

00:57:32There's a lovely atmosphere down here.

00:57:34You never come out of a swim without a smile on your face.

00:57:37And if you have any worries, if you have any worries, they just can't.

00:57:41I understand the smile on your face, sort of frozen on one's face.

00:57:45Probably, yeah.

00:57:46Well, let's just see what temperature this water is.

00:57:49I just know this is the closest.

00:57:51I'm going to get.

00:57:54I told you not to let me get too close.

00:57:58I have to leave now.

00:57:59Shoes are wet.

00:58:00Well, we just want to welcome the 40-foot man.

00:58:08He's been out on the 40-foot.

00:58:09Yes.

00:58:10And he's getting splashed around.

00:58:13I, uh, the bay.

00:58:15It was on the news.

00:58:16I stripped naked and got in for 45 minutes.

00:58:21You've seen more Dublin the last three days, he has, than we have in the last year.

00:58:26This also is a gift.

00:58:28Uh, we went somewhere and got on the dart and, uh, spent two hours with Glenn.

00:58:34Uh-huh.

00:58:35There you go.

00:58:36The immediate beard off.

00:58:37Beard off.

00:58:38He, he has, he has a beautiful beard, but I, if you ever get a chance to get right up close

00:58:44to him, you'll be hypnotized by his blue eyes.

00:58:48Oh, my goodness, ladies and gentlemen.

00:58:50There's a Moya Cannon poem that probably speaks a lot to the idea of taking songs and what

00:59:06happens to songs and where they go and where music goes.

00:59:09It's called carrying the songs.

00:59:11It was always those with little else to carry who carried the songs.

00:59:15Deep rhythms.

00:59:16Ah, f**k.

00:59:17Every one of the poems I write ends in, ah, f**k.

00:59:22Okay, I, I think I have it.

00:59:23Okay, all right.

00:59:24All right.

00:59:25One more time.

00:59:26There was always those with little else to carry who carried the songs to Babylon, to

00:59:37the Mississippi.

00:59:39The last of these possessed less than nothing, did not own their own bodies.

00:59:46Yet three centuries later, deep rhythms from Africa stowed in their hearts and their bones.

00:59:52They carried the world's songs.

00:59:56And for those who left my county, girls from the Downings and the Rosses, who followed the

01:00:02herring boats north, gutting the sea's silver as they went.

01:00:08Or boys from Ranafast, who slept over a rope in a bothy.

01:00:14Songs were their soul's currency.

01:00:18The pure metal of their hearts, to be exchanged for other gold, other songs that rang true

01:00:25and bright when flung down on the deal boards of their days.

01:00:30So this idea that songs are what we carry, even when we have nothing else.

01:00:37Those who are the victors write the history.

01:00:41Those who suffered both the songs.

01:00:43So we have a lot of songs in Ireland.

01:00:50And sometimes I wake up in the morning, the ginger lady by my bed.

01:00:57And sometimes I wake up in the morning, the ginger lady by my bed.

01:01:05And sometimes I wake up in the morning, the ginger lady by my bed.

01:01:20How long have you been sober?

01:01:21Since I was 34.

01:01:22Since I was 34.

01:01:23Since I was 34.

01:01:24Okay.

01:01:25Fingers crossed.

01:01:26Do you want to see a walk there?

01:01:27Yeah.

01:01:28Let's watch this.

01:01:29Okay.

01:01:30This is a walk.

01:01:31Dublin walk.

01:01:32Yeah.

01:01:33Alright.

01:01:34Pretty good.

01:01:35Go then.

01:01:36Yeah.

01:01:37That's it.

01:01:38Are we here?

01:01:39This is it.

01:01:40I've been in here for a long time.

01:01:41How are you doing?

01:01:42Good evening.

01:01:43Hi.

01:01:44How are you?

01:01:45How are you?

01:01:46Hi.

01:01:47How are you?

01:01:48What is your name?

01:01:49Oliver?

01:01:50I'm Dave.

01:01:51Good evening.

01:01:55Hi.

01:01:56How are you?

01:01:57What is your name?

01:01:59Oliver?

01:02:00I'm Dave.

01:02:01Hi how are you? What is your name? Oliver? I'm Dave.

01:02:06La la la la la la la

01:02:15Oh la la la la la la la leaving

01:02:27Hello? Where is David? How are you?

01:02:32I believe you like me always.

01:02:35Okay. It was just wonderful. Thank you.

01:02:39It should be the national anthem, eh?

01:02:42Ooh!

01:02:54Say you are a diamond, a ring of gold

01:03:04A story to remain untold

01:03:08Your love not to grow cold

01:03:13All the promises we break

01:03:18From the cradle to the grave

01:03:24All I want is you

01:03:33All I want is you

01:03:37All I want is you

01:03:42All I want is you

01:03:49All I want is you

01:03:54All I want is you

01:03:59All I want is you

01:04:03All I want is you

01:04:04All I want is you

01:04:06All I want is you

01:04:08All I want is you

01:04:14You mentioned recording phrases of music

01:04:17Yeah

01:04:18On a device

01:04:19I mean it could be literally the middle of the night

01:04:21I wake up with an idea

01:04:23idea so i have to get out of bed find the phone a guitar looking at my phone this morning i have

01:04:306 000 voice notes see to be able to do this is honestly it's like you guys are a magic act well

01:04:43we have some magic for you we're gonna write a tune for you called 40 foot man now when did this

01:04:48happen how long is this this is uh 3 a.m this morning oh yeah it started at 3am so this whole

01:04:54little thing that you're doing for me now is fresh out of the oven yeah try it again let me try it

01:05:00again oh do you want to give it a go okay you've written lyrics and everything oh yeah one two three

01:05:14four we've come to love this 40-foot man he keeps on doing the best that he can

01:05:27we almost lost him there on sandy mount strand being swept away was part of his plan

01:05:37you can let me sleep that's how we see underneath

01:05:51you try this bit

01:05:54he's not so excited

01:06:00he's not so frightened

01:06:07fast as lightning

01:06:11this 40-foot man

01:06:17this 40-foot man oh yeah

01:06:24oh man okay the phrase in there that absolutely rings true is he tries the best that he can and i i have

01:06:32to tell myself that every minute of every day many nice things have happened for me in my life

01:06:39this is would be right at the top of that list i mean this is like people could call and order

01:06:45custom-made u2 songs i don't know about that you see the thing is it's about inspiration

01:06:51oh you gave us the inspiration this is too much well when do we talk about uh publishing publishing

01:06:59hey yeah back off back off letterman

01:07:05the greatest songwriting is never conclusive

01:07:17but the search for conclusion

01:07:19how long how long how long must we sing this song

01:07:33how long how long

01:07:34is

01:07:36oh

01:07:38is

01:07:40tonight

01:07:42we can raise one

01:07:44tonight

01:07:46tonight

01:07:48tonight

01:07:50tonight

01:07:52tonight

01:07:54tonight

01:07:56pick it up

01:08:06tonight

01:08:08pick it up

01:08:10tonight

01:08:14what the tears from your eyes

01:08:20the lyrics of this have been rewritten for the new release

01:08:30yeah that's right what a thrill to finish sunday bloody sunday all these years later

01:08:35to go back to dairy and make it present tense i could never have written that song this way back then

01:08:43here at the murder scene

01:08:51the beginning of a fiction

01:08:53the facts will not come clean

01:08:57why so many mothers cry

01:09:01is religion now the enemy of the holy spirit guide

01:09:07the real battle yet begun

01:09:11where is the victory jesus

01:09:17won

01:09:21so all i want now is the answer to the question how do you write a song and i don't have that yet

01:09:37not to get into the weeds too much but chords are the foundation of all melody so actually before you get to melody you need to find the right chords

01:09:47you need to find the right chords

01:09:49i don't agree with edge on that one i'm just saying because think about what you just did

01:09:53what you did

01:09:55to one you changed the chords

01:09:57same melody same words

01:09:59you just did it

01:10:01i think we changed the key but not the chords

01:10:03we did well we nearly got to 50 years

01:10:05and in marsh's library

01:10:07it's coming apart

01:10:09it all just fell apart

01:10:11you're still doing it

01:10:13and he's not tired of doing it

01:10:15and you still

01:10:17no no i you know i certainly thought about um

01:10:19walking away from you two

01:10:21no every member has

01:10:23no no no no we have all thought about it

01:10:25thought about it but it's really the right

01:10:27it's really the right

01:10:29instinct is to question

01:10:31whether this should be a going concern

01:10:35and what it demands of all four members

01:10:37of you two

01:10:39and the reason why i want to go forward

01:10:41and is because something is stirring

01:10:44and in my voice and in my singing

01:10:46and this desire to write the song that we haven't got yet

01:10:50you know we're sort of chasing the dragon of the song we can't get

01:10:55do you want to hear another song

01:10:58yes

01:10:59let's try breaking away

01:11:00because we never quite nail the vocal here

01:11:02let's do something completely different

01:11:06this is a tenure in the making song

01:11:08every breaking away on the shore

01:11:15tells the next one there'll be one more

01:11:21and every gambler knows that to lose

01:11:26is what you're really there for

01:11:30summer hours feel lessness

01:11:35now i speak into an answer for

01:11:40every fall i leave on the breeze

01:11:46leave it alone

01:11:50if you go

01:11:57if you go your way and i go mine

01:12:01are we so

01:12:05are we so helpless against the tide

01:12:11darling every dark on this street

01:12:15knows that we're in love with defeat

01:12:19are we ready to be swept off our feet

01:12:24and stop chasing

01:12:28every breaking way

01:12:36you know the early songwriting was just sketching really

01:12:40sometimes you know you've just started the song

01:12:45and it might take 20 years to finish it

01:12:49but then you realize

01:12:52this song has been waiting for this moment

01:12:57to be a moment

01:12:58and it's all

01:13:06and it's all

01:13:08and it's all

01:13:09that's the song

01:13:10that's the song

01:13:11and it's all

01:13:12that's the song

01:13:14and it's all

01:13:15If you go your way and I go my way slow

01:13:29Are we so helpless, kissing, baby

01:13:35Every dog on the street knows that we're in love with defeat

01:13:43Are we ready to be swept off our feet

01:13:49And stop chasing every breaking wave

01:13:57Every breaking wave

01:14:01Every breaking wave

01:14:05Every breaking wave

01:14:15Every breaking wave

01:14:19Every breaking wave

01:14:25Every breaking wave

01:14:41I feel like a different person. I have to lie down. I'm sorry. Yeah, me too.

01:14:47I think the thing that we've all been given from Dublin is a real connection to our regular lives.

01:15:07Our friends are the same friends we had when we were 15, 16.

01:15:15All of the members of the band

01:15:17We've been protected, I think, from the worst excesses of rock and roll stardom by being here.

01:15:23It was a shame.

01:15:25One, two, three, four.

01:15:27One, two, three, four.

01:15:29It's like the room just cleared a smoke

01:15:31You didn't even want the heart you broke

01:15:33It's like the room just cleared of smoke

01:15:53You didn't even want the heart you broke

01:15:57It's yours to keep, just might need one

01:16:04I finally found my real name

01:16:08I won't be me when you see me again

01:16:13No, I won't be my father's son

01:16:18I'm more than you know

01:16:22I'm more than you seem

01:16:27I'm more than you let me be

01:16:31I'm more than you know

01:16:34Body and my soul

01:16:37You don't see me but you will

01:16:43I am not invisible

01:16:46I don't dream, not as such

01:17:06I don't even think about you that much

01:17:10Unless I start to think at all

01:17:17Of those frozen days

01:17:21And your frozen ways

01:17:25That melts away

01:17:27You face like snow

01:17:31I'm more than you know

01:17:35I'm more than you see

01:17:39Yeah, I'm more than you let me be

01:17:43I'm more than you know

01:17:46Body and my soul

01:17:50You don't see me but you will

01:17:55I am not invisible

01:17:58I am invisible

01:18:00I am invisible

01:18:02Let's try something

01:18:16Let's sing

01:18:18There is no them

01:18:20There is only us

01:18:22So you can be part of this

01:18:24There is no them

01:18:27There is no them

01:18:31There's only us

01:18:34There's only us

01:18:38There is no them

01:19:08There is no them

01:19:12There is no them

01:19:15There's only us

01:19:19There's only us

01:19:23There is no them

01:19:26Thank you very much

01:19:28I am shitfaced now

01:19:34I have something to say

01:19:38Thanks to everybody here

01:19:40I've never had an experience like this

01:19:43I also want to thank Ireland

01:19:45I mean, my God

01:19:47What an education

01:19:49Glenn, God bless you with that beard

01:19:52Thank you to my host

01:19:55Bono and the Edge

01:19:56Thank you for your hospitality

01:19:58God bless everybody in this room

01:20:01Thank you

01:20:03Thank you, sir

01:20:04Thank you, sir

01:20:05Thank you, sir

01:20:06Thank you, sir

01:20:10By the way, Dave

01:20:11I love the new look

01:20:12Just saying

01:20:13Why do you think I bought this?

01:20:19I got this from you.

01:20:23It looks obvious now through the rearview mirror,

01:20:27but the real miracle of you two is that everything we needed,

01:20:31all the people we needed, they've always been right there.

01:20:36Well, that's where we began this. That's so unbelievable.

01:20:40Yeah.

01:21:19Oh, and the monster's not under the sea.

01:21:25Oh, the monster's sitting next to me.

01:21:30And he's not friendly.

01:21:35He's not even biting.

01:21:42His tongue's like lightning.

01:21:45Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:21:50It can take a stranger to see yourself.

01:21:58An outside eye can be of great help.

01:22:04He's only one, but he'll pop it right out.

01:22:09He's a caring, sharing cyclops.

01:22:12Oh, this does no doubt.

01:22:15Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:24Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:26Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:28Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:29Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:30Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:35Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:36Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:37Oh, the 40-foot man.

01:22:38Oh, what a wonderful discovery.

01:22:42Oh, what a wonderful discovery.

01:22:57Oh, and I find we're laughing nervously.

01:23:03His boss is then crying

01:23:06He's not even biting

01:23:12A tongue like lightning

01:23:18The 40-foot man

01:23:25The 40-foot man

01:23:33The 40-foot man

01:24:03The 40-foot man

01:24:33The 40-foot man

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