u2songs.com: Running to Stand Still
Site Related => Lyrics Transcriptions => Topic started by: Z000 on November 07, 2011, 02:27:38 PM
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This is a lyric inquiry but could potentially become an actual transcription thread. Feel free to move it to a different section.
I know there's a lot of impressionism and abstract symbols to the lyrics of EP&A. From what I read, Bono recorded words describing images that came to his head with the intention to re-record the vocals with something that made a little more sense, but Brian Eno insisted on keeping it as it was.
Has the song been done live, and if so, how did Bono approach the abstract, demo-style lyrics? If anyone knows of any live recordings or transcriptions thereof, how are the lyrics different?
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Z000---Never done live though according to u2gigs there was a lone occurrence of a snippet Nov 2, 1984 at a concert in London during Bad.
I checked the bootleg and at the very end of Bad , Bono was improvising a bit singing 'come on down, come on down' which he often did at that point and then he sang 'and the rain came down' a couple times-- but that was the extent of the snippet.
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Well he did do a poetry style reading of it (forget what for), and as I recall it was pretty much off the lyrics sheet.
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I thought that was Elvis Ate America.
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Ah. True.