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It's hard to overstate the kindness and good-natured humor Bono and The Edge brought to the Tiny Desk. When they first arrived at the NPR Music offices, Bono spoke on an imaginary phone, "The talent's here! The talent's coming through," poking fun at their own fame, while carrying The Edge's guitar. (The Edge called Bono the best roadie he's ever had.) The two never stopped beaming, like two overjoyed newcomers thrilled at the chance to play for someone.
The performance was a preview of U2's new album, Songs Of Surrender, featuring stripped-down versions of songs from across the band's catalog. To help pull off several reimagined songs from the 2000 album All That You Can't Leave Behind, Bono and The Edge invited a teen choir from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., to join them. During rehearsals, Bono told the students to think of "Beautiful Day" as the kind of "post-drinking" singalong you'd bellow with friends after leaving a bar. He then quickly realized none of them are old enough to drink, before feigning a heart attack.
Traveling without bassist Adam Clayton or drummer Larry Mullen Jr., Bono and The Edge made the trip from Ireland to the States specifically for the Tiny Desk, arriving in D.C. after five days of rehearsals at Bono's New York apartment. When they settled in for the performance, they treated the office to four songs, including a deeply emotional version of "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," written for the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence, and a reworked version of "Walk On," which Bono said was inspired by and dedicated to the people of Ukraine.
SET LIST
"Beautiful Day"
"In a Little While"
"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
"Walk On"
MUSICIANS
Bono: vocals
The Edge: guitar, vocals
Duke Ellington School of the Arts Choir: Petra Munter, Ayan Yacob, Kirsten Holmes, Jayla Norwood, Dyor Taylor, Jaylyn Pickney, Jevon Skipper, Joshua Jennings, Jordan Freeman
Patrick Lundy: choir director
Special thanks to: Sandi Logan (principal/HOS), Isaac Daniel (assistant principal)
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Director: Joshua Bryant
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Editor: Maia Stern
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Sofia Seidel, Michael Zamora
Audio Assistant: Alex Drewenskus
Production Assistant: Jill Britton
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer, Pilar Galván
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
#nprmusic #tinydesk #u2 #bono #theedge
The performance was a preview of U2's new album, Songs Of Surrender, featuring stripped-down versions of songs from across the band's catalog. To help pull off several reimagined songs from the 2000 album All That You Can't Leave Behind, Bono and The Edge invited a teen choir from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., to join them. During rehearsals, Bono told the students to think of "Beautiful Day" as the kind of "post-drinking" singalong you'd bellow with friends after leaving a bar. He then quickly realized none of them are old enough to drink, before feigning a heart attack.
Traveling without bassist Adam Clayton or drummer Larry Mullen Jr., Bono and The Edge made the trip from Ireland to the States specifically for the Tiny Desk, arriving in D.C. after five days of rehearsals at Bono's New York apartment. When they settled in for the performance, they treated the office to four songs, including a deeply emotional version of "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," written for the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence, and a reworked version of "Walk On," which Bono said was inspired by and dedicated to the people of Ukraine.
SET LIST
"Beautiful Day"
"In a Little While"
"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
"Walk On"
MUSICIANS
Bono: vocals
The Edge: guitar, vocals
Duke Ellington School of the Arts Choir: Petra Munter, Ayan Yacob, Kirsten Holmes, Jayla Norwood, Dyor Taylor, Jaylyn Pickney, Jevon Skipper, Joshua Jennings, Jordan Freeman
Patrick Lundy: choir director
Special thanks to: Sandi Logan (principal/HOS), Isaac Daniel (assistant principal)
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Director: Joshua Bryant
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Editor: Maia Stern
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Sofia Seidel, Michael Zamora
Audio Assistant: Alex Drewenskus
Production Assistant: Jill Britton
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer, Pilar Galván
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
#nprmusic #tinydesk #u2 #bono #theedge
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00:00Funny thing happened on the way to the office.
00:04I met you.
00:06Uh, yeah, yeah, okay.
00:08Um, glorious day.
00:13And this is a beautiful day.
00:30The heart is a bloom.
00:35It shoots up through the stony ground.
00:38But there's no room.
00:42No space to rent in this town.
00:46You're out of luck.
00:49And the reason that your hands are care.
00:53The traffic is stuck.
00:56You're not moving anywhere.
01:00You thought you found a friend.
01:04To take you out of this place.
01:07Someone you could lend a hand.
01:11In return for grace.
01:14It's a beautiful day.
01:18Sky falls, you feel like it's a beautiful day.
01:25Yeah, yeah.
01:28Give it up.
01:30Come on.
01:33You're on the road.
01:39But you got no destination.
01:43You're in the mud.
01:46In the maze of her imagination.
01:50You love this town.
01:51Even if that doesn't mean true.
01:57You've been all over.
02:01And it's been all over you.
02:04It's a beautiful day.
02:04It's a beautiful day.
02:06It's a beautiful day.
02:07It's a beautiful day.
02:08Don't let it get me.
02:11It's a beautiful day.
02:13Yeah.
02:14Yeah.
02:16Yeah.
02:17Yeah.
02:17Yeah.
02:17Yeah.
02:18Yeah.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Touch me now.
02:22Take me to that other place.
02:25Teach me love.
02:29I know I'm not a hopeless case.
02:32So the world is your blue room.
02:38Edge. Do an edge thing.
02:45There he is.
02:50Can you throw in a hoo or something?
02:55So the world is your blue room
02:59So the seven seas swallowing the moon
03:02East of Finglas, north of Eden
03:05Laughter is the evidence of freedom
03:10I saw Adam asking Eve for a party
03:13Wasn't a woman who threw God out of the garden
03:17Seen a bird with a leaf in her mouth
03:20After the flood all the colours came out
03:29What a beautiful day
03:31Don't let it get away
03:36Beautiful day
03:40Yeah, yeah
03:43Touch me now
03:47Take me to that other place
03:50Reach me
03:52I know I'm not a hopeless case
03:57What you don't have
03:59You don't need it now
04:01What you don't know
04:03You can feel it somehow
04:05What you don't have
04:07You don't need it now
04:09Don't need it now
04:10Need it now
04:15Thank you
04:19That was really good
04:21That was really good
04:22That was really good
04:23That was really good
04:28Ah
04:29We're around the corner from Duke Ellington School of the Arts
04:37Who've just lent us their voices
04:40Courtesy
04:43Dave Chappelle gave us your number
04:46Very grateful to him for that
04:48And we like stand-up comedians around here
04:53Edge is here every Friday
04:56New comedy show at M.P.O.R.
05:00Okay
05:06In a little while
05:08Surely you'll be mine
05:11In a little while
05:13I'll be there
05:17In a little while
05:19This hurt will hurt no more
05:21I'll be home
05:22I'll be home
05:24Love
05:27When the night
05:29Takes a deep breath
05:31And the daylight
05:34Has no air
05:36If I crawl
05:39If I come crawling home
05:42Will you
05:44Be there?
05:46In a little while
05:47In a little while
05:49I won't be blown by every breeze
05:51Friday night run
05:53To Sunday on my knees
06:08That girl, that girl, she's mine
06:11Well, I've known her since
06:16Since she was a little girl
06:21A Spanish eye
06:23Oh!
06:25When I saw her
06:27In the pram they pushed her by
06:29Ah, ah, ah, my
06:32How you've grown
06:33Well, it's been
06:35It's been
06:37It's been a little while
06:39Ooh, ooh, ooh
06:49Ooh, ooh, ooh
06:55Ooh, ooh, ooh
06:59Man dreams one day to fly
07:04A man takes a rocket ship into the sky
07:09He lives on a star staying in the night
07:14And follows in the trail the scatter of light
07:21You turn it on, you turn me on, you turn me on
07:30Yeah, yeah, yeah
07:34Ooh, ooh, ooh
07:37He can sing that bit
07:39Ooh, ooh, ooh
07:44Ooh, ooh, ooh
07:46Choir Master Patrick is singing that part
07:49Ooh, ooh, ooh
07:53Slow down my beating heart
07:59Slowly now, slowly now
08:04Slow down my beating heart
08:10Slowly now, slowly now
08:17Edge
08:34Edge, we had to get him counseling
08:38Yeah
08:39I've been trying it
08:40Get him away from all his guitars and its effects
08:43But he turned up for Tiny Desk
08:45I know
08:46With a tiny amp
08:47All of these years trying to avoid a desk job
08:49But actually it's really funny
08:51I love it
08:53Thank you
08:54It suits you, sir
08:55I'm getting into it
08:56A song, actually a song about friendship, sorta
09:02Edge and myself were discussing earlier
09:05How we've gotten a little, maybe more intolerant
09:10As we've gotten older
09:12Of our friends
09:13And, and, well
09:17I've made the mistake of putting my friends into categories
09:21Like boxes, two boxes, you should never do this
09:24Like the really difficult ones
09:26You have to be careful what you say around them, kinda thing
09:28And then the ones that, you know, you're easy with
09:32And I've, worse than that
09:33I've found myself spending more time with the ones
09:35That I'm really easy with
09:37And not having the arguments
09:40That you really need to have with your friends
09:43And they need to have with you
09:45This is for Michael Hutchins
09:48Who's a singer of In Excess
09:49He, he is a great friend
09:53And a great singer
09:55And I wished that I had had this conversation
10:00Yeah, it's kind of an argument
10:02This song
10:03It's not really resolved
10:04Me and Michael will work it out another time
10:08Okay
10:09I'm not afraid
10:21Of anything in this world
10:24There's nothing you can throw at me
10:40That I haven't already heard
10:43I'm just trying to find
10:46A decent melody
10:48A song that I can sing
10:51In my own company
10:53Never thought you were a fool
11:00But darling, look at you
11:05You're gonna stand up straight
11:10Carry your own weight
11:13These tears are going away
11:16Hey, hey, hey, hey
11:18You've got to get yourself together
11:23You got stuck in a moment
11:26And you can't get out of it
11:29Don't say that
11:32Later we'll be better
11:34Now you're stuck in a moment
11:37And you can't get out of it
11:39And you can't get out of it
11:46I will not forsake
11:48The colors that you bring
11:51But the nights you fill with fireworks
11:54Do they leave you with nothing?
11:56I'm still enchanted
11:59By a light you brought to me
12:02I still listen through your ears
12:04Through your eyes
12:06Through your eyes
12:07I can see
12:10And you are such a fool
12:15To worry like you do
12:21I know it's tough
12:24And you can never get enough
12:27Of what you don't really need now
12:29My oh my
12:31You've got to get yourself together
12:36You got stuck in a moment
12:39And you can't get out
12:43Oh, Lord
12:45Look at you now
12:47You're stuck in a moment
12:50And you can't get out
12:53I was unconscious, half asleep
12:56The water is warm
12:57The water is warm
12:58Until you discover
12:59How deep
13:04I wasn't jumping
13:05For me it was a fall
13:07It's a long way down
13:08It's nothing
13:09At all
13:16You've got to
13:18Get yourself together
13:20You got stuck in a moment
13:22And you're stuck in a moment
13:23And you can't get out of it
13:27Don't say that
13:29Later will be better
13:31Now you're stuck in a moment
13:33And you can't get out of it
13:38And if the night runs over
13:42And if the day won't last
13:44And if the day won't last
13:47And if your ways should falter
13:49And if your ways should falter
13:52Alone that stony pass
13:54And if the night runs over
13:55And if the day won't last
13:59And if the day runs over
14:04And if the days won't last
14:11And if your ways should falter
14:16Along that stony path
14:21It's just a moment
14:25It's just a moment
14:34This too shall pass
14:42That was good
15:04That felt good
15:06It's Bob's blessing
15:12Something's going on
15:16Thank you
15:17Very grateful
15:18We were sitting around a year ago
15:21And we were working on these songs
15:26Which are now called Songs of Surrender
15:28And they're reimaginings
15:30Reworkings of early U2 songs
15:34Reimagining for the moment that we're in
15:37Sort of thing
15:38And the moment we were in that day
15:40A war was breaking out in Ukraine
15:42And a stand-up comedian
15:45Was standing up to the bully
15:47That was Vladimir Putin
15:48Standing up for freedom
15:49So we rewrote our song
15:52Walk On
15:53For him and for the upstanding people of Ukraine
15:57And we are going to play it for you right now
16:00Okay
16:01With the help
16:02Of
16:03From around the corner
16:05The Duke Ellington School of the Arts
16:07Okay
16:08Okay, here we go
16:09Pick a note
16:18And if the comic takes the stage
16:33And no one lies
16:35And does a dance on his own grave
16:42For a photograph
16:43For a photograph
16:44This is not a curtain call
16:50This is the greatest act of all
16:55I stand up for freedom
16:59Walk On
17:04Walk On
17:05Walk On
17:07Walk On
17:08And if a dancer on the street wears a veil of tears
17:20And if a dancer on the street wears a veil of tears
17:30It's a dance no army can defeat
17:34Love turns her fears
17:37Into a kind of rage
17:42That can't be kept inside a cage
17:46You fight or you fly
17:49We're born or we die for freedom
17:52Walk on, walk on
17:59What you got, you can't deny it
18:02Can't sell it or buy it
18:04Walk on, walk on
18:08Stay safe tonight
18:11Yeah, I know it aches
18:14Your heart, it breaks
18:16You can only take some miles
18:20You don't know what it is
18:27Till you're forced to flee one
18:30I don't know where it is
18:36I will have to be one
18:39Oh, that's where the hurt is
18:44Yeah, I know it aches
18:49Yeah, I know it breaks
18:51And you can only take so much
18:54Walk on, walk on
18:58Walk on
19:02Try it
19:03There you go
19:06Right there
19:10All that you want, walk on, walk on
19:11That you adjust the days
19:11All that you fashion
19:13All that you make
19:14Change up, walk on
19:18All that you build
19:19Whatever they break
19:20All that you dream up
19:21All you design
19:22All that you can't leave behind
19:25All that you reckon
19:26Leave behind all that you reckon, all that you dare, all that you fought for when it wasn't there, all that you suffered, the hills that you climbed, all that you can, leave it behind, leave it behind, I'm not gonna leave it behind.
19:56Walk on, walk on, walk on, walk on, walk on, walk on, walk on.
20:12Thank you so much.
20:26Thank you so much.
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