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Title: Hours of fun - what next?
Post by: Between Two Worlds on April 15, 2005, 05:03:50 AM

Live renditions of Vertigo have established the first two lines of the famous three controversial lines in the middle of the song pretty well

Check mated)
(Hours of fun)

Carl has (You're mad and meant it all) for the third line. I don't (yet) have access to the Brooklyn Bridge material (UK-iTunes does not offer it) but in other live performances I hear

(Your man isn't mad at all)

What do others think?

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Post by: Between Two Worlds on April 29, 2005, 11:07:17 AM

I now had a chance to listen to the Brooklyn Bridge Material. Again

(Check mated)
(Hours of fun)

is pretty clear. my suggestion (Your man isn't mad at all) does not quite fit with what Bono sings, although neither am I convinced by (You're mad and meant it all). To my ears under the Brooklyn Bridge could be

(Your ol' man isn't mad at all)