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Won't you come back tomorrow
Won't you come back tomorrow
Won't you come back tomorrow
Can I sleep tonight?
Outside, somebody's outside
Somebody's knocking at the door.
There's a black car parked at the side of the road
Don't go to the door
Don't go to the door.
I'm going out.
I'm going outside mother.
I'm going out there.
Won't you be back tomorrow,
Won't you be back tomorrow,
Will you be back tomorrow?
Can I sleep tonight?
Who broke the window
Who broke down the door?
Who tore the curtain
And who was it for?
Who heals the wounds
Who heals the scars?
Open the door, open the door.
Won't you come back tomorrow?
Won't you be back tomorrow?
Will you be back tomorrow?
Can I sleep tonight?
'Cause I want you
I, I want you
I really want you.
I, I want, I, I
Want you to be back tomorrow
I want you to be back tomorrow.
Will you be back tomorrow?
Can I sleep tonight?
I want you to be back tomorrow
I want you to be back tomorrow.
Will you be back tomorrow?
Open up, open up, to the Lamb Of God
To the love of He
Who made the blind to see.
He's coming back
He's coming back
O believe Him.
Non je ne regrete rien
"Non, rien de rien,
non, je ne regrette rien!
Ni le bien qu´on m´a fait,
ni le mal;
tout ça m´est bien egal!
Non, rien de rien,
non, je ne regrette rien!
C´est payé,
balayé,
oublié.
Je me fous du passé!
Avec mes souvenirs
j´ai allumé le feu!
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs,
je n´ai plus besoin d´eux!
Balayés les amours
avec leurs trémolos,
balayer pour toujours!
Je repars à zéro
Non, rien de rien,
non, je ne regrette rien!
Ni le bien qu´on m´a fait,
ni le mal;
tout ça m´est bien egal!
Non, rien de rien,
non, je ne regrette rien!
Car ma vie,
car me joies
aujourd´hui
ça commence avec toi"
Thank you my old pal!
It's summer and everybody in U2 is off on holiday. When they return preparations will begin in earnest for the Autumn tour of Australia, New Zealand, the Far East and a clutch of European dates. Unlike Larry Edge and Bono, Adam has decided to stay at home in Dublin for the break, having been away to both the US and Australia in the months since Rattle and Hum was released. It was November '88 when the band were last in the public eye and Adam rehearses his diary as something like this: "Most of November was taken up attending premieres and meeting people; then there was the album release and all that boring stuff like photo sessions and meeting people; in January and February we really got into the B-sides with the intention of coming up with some new songs but in fact we recorded some cover versions; I don't know what happened to the rest of the year. There's always something going on but we haven't been touring have we? ... er, Smile Jamaica ... was that January? ... no, that was October... oh, videos like All I Want Is You - that was another month ... it seems like we've been in the studio or rehearsing every day since..."
When U2 are off the road or not making an album they cannot close down completely. If it's not business as usual, it is business as unusual. Sitting in the board-room of the band's Windmill Lane offices Adam tries -unsuccessfully - to describe a "normal day": "You start the day by opening the mail and then you gradually get into making phone calls; then around two in the afternoon you start rehearsing...er..." His voice trails away. Well, good try but the problem is that U2 is not exactly a 9-5 job and there are few "normal" days. There are constant factors though: "The phone rings every five minutes - 'Do you want to do this ... Do you want to do that?' The requests range from 'Can you meet me for lunch? ' to 'Can you open my supermarket?' and it's incredibly confusing because we're not heads of state, we're not businessmen, we're musicians. None of us wants all that crap but it's there the minute you open your door. Although you just want to be left alone ... to play your guitar in your bedroom the way you used to, suddenly there's all these people demanding bits of you and in the end I just say 'No' to pretty much everything." Unfortunately, he laughs, "Even saying no to everything takes up most of your time ... it's a ridiculous situation to find yourself in."
Which is why the opportunity U2's position now gives them to make music at their leisure and continue their exploration of other kinds of music is so important. At the turn of the year as Edge described in Propaganda 10, the band recorded perhaps ten different cover versions for possible use as b-sides, some of which like Everlasting Love and Unchained Melody have already seen the light of day, others of which may never. "Some just didn't work," explained Adam. "It wasn't right for us to do some of them. Like the old Creedence number Fortunate Son - it was a great idea as it refers to the draft-dodgers in Vietnam, the Senators' sons avoiding the draft. When we looked at it it was in the middle of the Senator Den Quayle controversy but that soon passed and it didn't work when we'd finished it.
"Another song was that Bruce Cockburn song If I Had a Rocket Launcher which again is great when Bruce Cockburn does it but it just doesn't happen for us."
Relaxed and eagerly anticipating his holiday, he says the direction of the next album is completely unpredictable ("Bono will change his mind from one end of the day to the next so it's best to wait until you hear a positive noise on what's happening.") but says that God Part II hints, for him, at "the direction where we're going, it's a fresh sound, not that clichéd rock 'n roll sound." He cites his favourite U2 songs as Love Comes Tumbling ("a great, melancholy tune and very simple') and his favourite memories as filming Under a Blood Red Sky ("pretty hectic, it felt like the end of the world') and "Getting back from America after the October tour when we couldn't pay the crew." He claims to have vivid memories of touring round Europe in the back of a VW van in the early eighties but says that he does not miss it. And with the conveniences of home and familiar surroundings, Adam has also been keeping his ear to the ground and catching up on listening to music, of all kinds.
He's been listening to the new Neneh Cherry record, to Van Morrison's Avalon Sunset -"But I'm always listening to him so it doesn't really count" - to The Pixies and The Triffids, to traditional Irish session music and to African music. "I don't like anyone new at the moment unless they're rap - NWA is something I've just come across - a tape given to me by Chris Blackwell which is the heaviest black New York rap and if there was censorship there'd be bleeps all the way through but it's got a good attitude."
By the time William Wilde was was 28, he had graduated as a doctor, completed a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, North Africa and the Middle East, studied at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, written two books, and been appointed medical advisor to the Irish Census of 1841. When the medical statistics were published two years later they contained data which had not being collected in any other country at the time, and as result William became the Assistant Commissioner to the 1851 Census. He held the same position for the two succeeding Censuses, and in 1864 he was knighted for his work on them. When William opened a Dublin practice specializing in ear and eye diseases, he felt he should make some provision for the free treatment of the city's poor. In 1844, he founded St. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital, built entirely at his own expense. Before he married, William fathered three children. Henry Wilson was born in 1838, Emily in 1847 and Mary in 1849. To William's credit, he provided financial support for all of them. He paid for Henry's education and medical studies, eventually hiring him into St. Mark's Hospital as an assistant. Sadly, Mary and Emily, who were raised by William's brother, both died in a fire at the ages of 22 and 24.Oscar's mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, first gained attention in 1846 when she began writing revolutionary poems under the pseudonym "Speranza" for a weekly Irish newspaper, The Nation. In 1848, as the country's famine worsened and the Year of Revolution took hold of Europe, the newspaper offices were raided and had to close. Jane, who was also gifted linguist with working knowledge of the major European languages, went on to translate Wilhelm Meinhold's gothic horror novel Sidonia the Sorceress. Oscar would later read the translation with relish, and draw on it for the darker elements of his own work.Jane's first child, William "Willie" Charles Kingsbury, was born on September 26, 1852 and her second, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie, on October 16, 1854. The daughter she had longed for, Isola Emily Francesca, was delivered on April 2, 1857. Ten years later, however, Emily died from a sudden fever. Oscar was profoundly affected by the loss of his sister, and for his lifetime he carried a lock of her hair sealed in a decorated envelope.....The father died on April 19, 1876, leaving the family financially strapped. Henry, William's eldest son, paid the mortgage on the family's house and supported them until his sudden death in 1877. Meanwhile, Oscar continued to do well at Oxford. He was awarded the Newdigate prize for his poem, Ravenna, and a First Class in both his "Mods" and "Greats" by his examiners. After graduation, Oscar moved to London to live with his friend Frank Miles, a popular high society portrait painter. In 1881, he published his first collection of poetry. Poems received mixed reviews by critics, but helped to move Oscar's writing career along.....In the summer of 1891, Oscar met Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry. Bosie was well acquainted with Oscar's novel Dorian Gray and was an undergraduate at Oxford. They soon became lovers and were inseparable until Wilde's arrest four years later. In April 1895, Oscar sued Bosie's father for libel as the Marquis had accused him of homosexuality. Oscar withdrew his case but was himself arrested and convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labor. Constance took the children to Switzerland and reverted to an old family name, "Holland." Upon his release, Oscar wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a response to the agony he experienced in prison. It was published shortly before Constance's death in 1898. He and Bosie reunited briefly, but Oscar mostly spent the last three years of his life wandering Europe, staying with friends and living in cheap hotels. Sadly, he was unable to rekindle his creative fires. When a recurrent ear infection became serious several years later, meningitis set in, and Oscar Wilde died on November 30, 1900.
"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. " The Decay of Lying - Oscar Wilde
"All the judgments are judgments for the entire life, in the same way as all the sentences are sentences of dead". Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person; give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."
Read more here: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/
Clayton calls these arena shows some of the best U2 has ever played. Stadium operas lose the "light and shade, the subtlety of the songs. You need to work on a different level." They've done it, of course. I have in front of me a photograph of Clayton in an orange hoodie tunic and white goggles playing a yellow space-bass from the Las Vegas launch of the Pop Mart tour. Clayton laughs."That Pop tour was ... great on many levels, but I think we made a few mistakes along the way. I guess we should have known better. But we didn't give the record long enough for people to get to know it. And we didn't introduce people to it in the way that we did this record." _ (Bass notes: U2's Adam Clayton on geography, spirituality and rock'n'roll from The Montreal Gazette, May 26, 2001 - by Mark LePage )
