I’ve decided to start posting a U2 video each day leading up the release of their new album in early March.

Since I got the idea after posting the “stuck in a moment…” video, I’m going to make this the official first post. (the other one was a bonus)

I’ll make this the first video since it is probably my favorite version of my favorite U2 song.

U2 at their best in every way. Released in 1985, this song made a tremendous impression on me at a very impressionable age.

I would say that this song represents the quintessential U2 experience…

and no, I’m not sleeping either…

If you twist and turn away.
It you tear yourself in two again.
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would let it go.
Surrender, dislocate.

If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind.
Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
Into the night, and through the rain
Into the half light and through the flame.

If I could, through myself, set your spirit free
I’d lead your heart away, see you break, break away
Into the light and to the day.

To let it go and so to find away.
To let it go and so find away.
I’m wide awake.
I’m wide awake, wide awake.
I’m not sleeping.

If you should ask, then maybe
They’d tell you what I would say
True colours fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag.
Colours crash, collide in blood-shot eyes.

If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would let it go.

This desperation, dislocation
Separation, condemnation
Revelation, in temptation
Isolation, desolation
Let it go and so to find away
To let it go and so to find away
To let it go and so to find away

I’m wide awake, I’m wide awake, wide awake
I’m not sleeping
Oh no, no, no.

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