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We always try to incorporate U2 into as many as lessons as possible. But when teaching 9/11
- The Stage is heart shaped. Let’s start with this. I know this was their tour set, but what a message.
- The Songs: The lyrics are listed below.
- The Performance: The banner of names. The American flag in Bono’s jacket.
- Promotional Introduction (0:00 – 0:48)
- A Beautiful Day (0:49 – 5:00)
- (0:49 – 1:35) Bono walking through the crowd to the stage
- (1:35 – 5:04)
- Cheering (5:00 – 5:10)
- MLK (5:11 – 6:10) Tha start of the banner with all the names of victims of 9/11 by location and category. It is an incredible list of close to 3,000 names. This is a short but powerful song.
- Where The Streets Have No Name (6:11
- (6:57 – 7:01) Bono Says America and holds the microphone to the crowd.
- (7:02 – 7:12) Bono holds the word “Ohhh”
- (7:18 – 7:28) Bono starts to jog around the heart shaped stage.
- (7:28 – 7:34) Bono breaks into a full speed sprint to the center of the stage.
- (10:09 – 10:16) The banner of names falls to the ground. Bono sings “Love, Love, Love” holding a heart just below his chest. What an amazing message after the tragic event filled with so much hate.
- (11:07 – 11:30) Bono opens his jacket to the crowd and the WORLD! What a moment! What a show of support. Is there anyone better that U2?
[Verse 1]
The heart is a bloom,
shoots up through the stony ground
There’s no room, no space to rent in this town
You’re out of luck, and the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck, and you’re not moving anywhere
You thought you’d found a friend to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace
[Chorus]
It’s a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
[Verse 2]
You’re on the road, but you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town even if that doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over, and it’s been all over you
[Chorus]
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It’s a beautiful day
Ooh-hoo-hoo
[Post-Chorus]
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I’m not a hopeless case
[Bridge]
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out
[Chorus]
It was a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
Beautiful day
[Post-Chorus]
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me I know I’m not a hopeless case
[Outro]
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
Don’t need it now
Was a beautiful day
MLK Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sleep, sleep tonight
And may your dreams be realised
If the thunder cloud passes rain
So let it rain, rain down on he
Mmm, so let it be Mmm, so let it be
[Verse 2]
Sleep, sleep tonight
And may your dreams be realised
If the thunder cloud passes rain
So let it rain, let it rain
Rain on he
Where the Streets Have
[Verse 1]
I wanna run, I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside
I wanna reach out and touch the flame
Where the streets have no name (Ah, ah, ah)
[Verse 2]
I wanna feel sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear without a trace
I wanna take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name, yeah (Oh, huh)
[Chorus]
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We’re still building, then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there I go there with you
It’s all I can do
[Verse 3]
The city’s a flood, and our love turns to rust
We’re beaten and blown by the wind, trampled in dust
I’ll show you a place high on a desert plain (Yeah)
Where the streets have no name (Ah, ha)
[Chorus]
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We’re still building, then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there I go there with you
It’s all I can do
[Outro]
Our love turns to rust
We’re beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see love See our love turn to rust
Ah, we’re beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there I go there with you
It’s all I can do
One option could be U2. U2 performed with George Harrison from London. This shows the worldwide and international impact of the event and the concern of international artists for America.