Starting a landslide in my ego
Look from the outside
To the world I left behind
I'm dreaming
You're awake
If I were sleeping
What's at stake
A day without me
Whatever the feelings
I keep feeling
What are the feelings
You left behind
Today's a day without me
I started a landslide in my ego
Look from the outside
To the world I left behind
In the world I left behind
Wipe their eyes, and then let go
To the world I left behind
Shed a tear, and then let go
Composed by U2 / Bono
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About "A Day Without Me"
From the original U2 Album "Boy" (20 October 1980)
History
"A Day Without Me" was the second single the band recorded after signing the contract with Island Records.
Steve Lillywhite had worked with Siouxsie & the Banshees and XTC, and "A Day Without Me" was the first time he recorded with U2. The lyrics are a clear contemplation of suicide and relate to the death of one of Bono's inspirations, Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division who killed himself in May 1980. However, the song debuted live in February 1980, several months prior to the death of Curtis.
The B-side was an instrumental song called "Things to Make and Do".
After DJ Carter Alan of WBCN in Boston heard "A Day Without Me" in a record store, he became a U2 fan and included the song in his playlist. Alan's subsequent promotion of the band was instrumental in introducing a U.S. audience for U2.
Live
"A Day Without Me" was played live during the first half of the 1980s. On the Boy Tour, it did not have a firmly defined set list position, initially appearing in the main set before moving to the encore. It did not appear on the October Tour until November 1981, when it was paired with "I Threw a Brick Through a Window", a song from the newly-released October album. The two songs were linked by a drum segue leading from the end of "I Threw A Brick Through A Window" into "A Day Without Me", and this pairing lasted until April 1985. Since then, neither song has been played live. A live performance of the song from Red Rocks Amphitheatre appears on the concert film Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky.
"Things to Make and Do" is the only instrumental ever played live by U2, and it regularly followed "The Electric Co." on the Boy Tour. It has only been played once since the end of that tour, at an early date of the October Tour on August 31, 1981. [From Wikipedia]
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