where the streets have ... 26-12-1989

[lore84]

hi to you all!

i just can't understand what kind of stuff Bono said that night during the intro of the song... Can anybody help me?

i just understand

this voice to me was like a scream

and some words, but I can't get it all

thank you so much...

PS: i'm sorry i've posted this one in the "lyrics interpretation" before... i made a big mistake... =(

[Carl]

No problem.

I don't have it in front of me right now, but I'm pretty sure in at least one of those four shows at the point depot he read off some poetry before streets. Wilde? Keats?

update googled: "where the streets" 1989 poetry

found this at http://www.elevation-tour.com/show1066.html

"Part of a Wordsworth poem is read at the start of Where The Streets Have No Name in tribute to the recently deceased Irish poet Samuel Beckett."

Googled up the poem, Resolution and Independence.

[Edited on 2005-9-12 by Carl]

[lore84]

mmm i'm looking hard for the verses in this poem but I can't find them... as well, I tried to do it myself and that's the result (if anyone can confirm or fix it):

This voice to me was like a scream…
Scares heard no word from world can I divide
The whole money of a man it seem
Like one who may I met in a dream
Some back and dreamed to other roads
Some back and dreamed to other lines/lands
Of another home… of another home…
Where the streets have no name…
Take me, take me

it's a great part in my opinion...

[Carl]

Can't confirm now, may be able to in the near future.

Try picking a few lines you are very confident of, put one in quotes, then google it, if you don't anything, try another line... if you get hits check through them to see if the rest looks similar.

[slaneman]

Pimm mentions that Sam Beckett had died 4 days earlier and Bono knelt to read his homage. Would love to see a video of this.

What Bono says:

His voice to me was like a stream
Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide
The whole body of the man did seem
Like one whom I have met in a dream
Sam Beckett dreamt of other roads
Sam beckett dreamt of other lands
Of another home, of another home
Where the streets have no name
Take me
Take me

Carl was right, Bono was adapting lines from the Wordsworth poem, "Resolution and Independence". Here's a few lines:

          The old Man still stood talking by my side;
          But now his voice to me was like a stream
          Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide;
          And the whole body of the Man did seem
          Like one whom I had met with in a dream;
          Or like a man from some far region sent,
          To give me human strength, by apt admonishment.

During the start of "Love Rescue Me", towards the end of this show Bono says;

Seems, ah,  Samuel Beckett died on Friday. Ah, it’s kinda sad that he never made it home. Such a long time. But he dreamt of other roads…in other lands…and of another home. So I sing this for Sam.

[Edited on 2006-11-5 by slaneman]

[Edited on 2006-11-6 by slaneman]

[Brad]

Excellent!