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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

new U2 Song (of Ascent?) :"Sing yourself right off your feet"


setlist link,
click the photo at left to enlarge

Two updates:

1)

"Soon! Soon!..

"Sing yourself on down the street

Sing yourself right off your feet
Sing yourself away from victory and from defeat
Sing yourself with fife and drum
Sing yourself to overcome
the thought that someone's lost, and someone else has won"

-new U2 song

The real news about the second video clip of the U2 claw I posted yesterday ("The U2 Claw and the Large Hydron Collider") turns out to be the intro and outro was a new U2 song, likely from the yet-to-be released "Songs of Ascent," an album spoken of by Bono as a pilgrimage album, patterned after the biblical Psalms of Ascent.

YouTube has since turned off the audio (later note: it's back), but it has been captured by the RTE (sort of the Irish PBS)
here (for now!) See the middle column, scroll down a bit...Intro: 00-00:39, outro: 6:43 to end.

Our church will be all over this song.

{Later note: The song turns up as the recorded intro to U2's appearance on stage, at least on opening night, and likely for the whole tour...Audio here, hat tip Beth....Also, the song appears to be called "Kingdom," Soon," or "Kingdom Soon," most likely "Kingdom of Your Love,"...per Willie Williams..and could be a Gavin Friday-related song...see this and this. And here's a video ...1:40ff...of Gavin talking about how "God in the house" on this tour, especially as the "Kingdom" song comes on.

{Later: Beth lets us know:
"Apparently (in case you have not heard this) Caroline vonB (associate of Gavin Friday; runs U2Log asked him, and Gavin Friday said it was not him, he doesn't even sing on it, it's all U2. "
link}

Here is a new video with as much of the song as we have so far}:



We are doing this song for church...chords here..

2)Also,
follow-up:Mother Saint Beth found this image (below and
(here) of the Sagrada Familia
interior columns. Wow, the Claw IS a cathedral/clawthedral. Bono himself has basically admitted so, and called it a "worship space."

(New article on the claw as cathedral here,
see also here)




See also:

banks, cathedrals, church


The Spanish have saying:

"Es una mentira como una catedral."







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3 comments:

  1. Willie Williams says it's called "Kingdom of Your Love"...makes you think there ARE more lyrics:
    http://u2.interference.com/f306/whats-that-song-they-came-out-to-intro-songs-198675-10.html

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  2. Powerful stuff. Few people in the states realize Christ's work in these guys..

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  3. Mark, so true.

    And so frustrating!

    Why do you think that is?

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Hey, thanks for engaging the conversation!