Bono's lyrics slip-ups

Originally posted by germcevoy:How can you know he does it a lot if you can only quote one instance?

Originally posted by carlibengarli:[..]

Because I listen through hundreds of bootlegs constantly, to see what songs are worth saving, and I was actually surprised by how often he does make some kind of lyrical error. They're usually nothing major but they tend to ruin one's impression of a performance. The most errors are found in the Zoo-tv and Boy-The Unforgettable fire eras. More recent shows feature less errors, in my experience.

The reason I didn't give any more examples is that I rarely ever know the show in question (since i don't save those versions in which Bono does sing wrong in some way). However, here are a few more examples:

1992-09-09, Pontiac, Michigan, Bullet the blue sky, first verse (mix-up)
Unknown war tour show - new year's day, ----------"--------------------
Two different unknown october tour, I threw a brick through a window (forgets the lyrics after the part "no one is blinder")
Washington 1992-08-16, replaces "secret" in the second verse with "light-bulb" which isn't supposed to be until later
Unknown vertigo show, sings "all you americans" to a european crowd
Two different unknown war show, forgets the lyrics for the snippet "Let's twist again" at the end of the performance of "Two hearts beat as one".

Originally posted by DerBFreund:There's one little mistake during Pride in Wellington 1984
He sings "Free at last, they took your Pride, they could not take your Pride"
Kinda funny lol, maybe that was what the thread starter meant

Originally posted by vanquish:He makes a lot of slip ups and changes.

I was listening to Exit live from Paris, a truly great performance of the song.
However at the end, when he sings Gloria, the first few Gloria's he spells out as 'G-L-O-R-A' which makes him seem dyslexic, a slight letdown to the otherwise fantastic performance.

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

He often tried to combine I and A into one letter. Thats what you hear in the Paris performance. Sometimes though he got the rest of the letters mixed up to.