"A Sort Of Homecoming" video

 

And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance.

And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, 'desire' time
And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape.

On borderland we run.
I'll be there, I'll be there tonight
A high-road, a high-road out from here.

The city walls are all come down
The dust a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields that once
Gave no resistance.

And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill as the valleys explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of it's own.

O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say I
O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say I

Oh, oh on borderland we run
And still we run, we run and don't look back
I'll be there, I'll be there
Tonight, tonight

I'll be there tonight, I believe
I'll be there so high
I'll be there tonight, tonight.

Oh com-away, I say, o com-away, I say.

The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz.
No spoken words, just a scream
Tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again tonight.

And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance.
Oh, don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight at last I am coming home.
I am coming home.

Composed by U2 / Bono


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About "A Sort Of Homecoming"

From the original U2 Album "The Unforgettable Fire" (01 October 1984)

"A Sort of Homecoming" is the first track of U2's 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire. A live version of the track is found on 1985's four-track EP, Wide Awake in America.

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin wrote for Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time the section on U2, saying: "I don't buy weekend tickets to Ireland and hang out in front of their gates, but U2 are the only band whose entire catalog I know by heart. The first song on The Unforgettable Fire, "A Sort of Homecoming", I know backward and forward -- it's so rousing, brilliant and beautiful. It's one of the first songs I played to my unborn baby."

Live

Its live premiere was during the Unforgettable Fire Tour on 17 September 1984. When played live, the song would start acoustically with just the Edge playing while Bono sang. After the first verse, the rest of the band would join in. It was played regularly on the rest of Unforgettable Fire Tour, typically after "The Electric Co.", and was played occasionally on the first two legs of the next tour, the Joshua Tree Tour. It was dropped from the band's live set on 27 June 1987 and did not reappear until the second leg of the Elevation Tour in 2001.

It was played at the band's homecoming gig at Slane Castle in Ireland on 25 August 2001. The performance was somewhat of a mess as Bono forgot many of the lyrics. It made only one more Elevation Tour appearance: at a concert in Oakland on 16 November 2001, a fan was pulled on stage to play guitar with the band and he began playing "A Sort of Homecoming". The band played along with him but Bono's recollection of the lyrics was even worse than in Dublin. The song has not been performed since. [From Wikipedia]

 

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