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  1. Been scratching my head on some of the lyric changes to songs throughout this tour, wanted to see if there were any best guesses as to why.

    Zooropa:
    I'm beside myself with excitement that they are playing Zooropa...but Bono seems to have problems with

    And I have no religion
    And I don't know what's what
    And I don't know the limit
    The limit of what we've got

    At first changing it to

    And where is my religion
    Cuz I don't know what's what
    I just know the limit
    The limit of what we've got

    And then cutting that verse all together for the Mexico shows.

    Ultraviolet

    I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap.

    Which is one of my favorite parts of the song...Bono still doesn't seem to know how to sing that lyric...he kind of just scats the last part. It really bugs me!!!

    What's going on? Is it an ideological/theological thing for the B-Man? I think of how U2 poked fun at Johnny Cash for not wanting to sing "Yeah, I went out for the papers, told her I'd be back by noon"...but Bono seems to be doing a "make Greedo shoot before Han" rewrite on some of the lyrics.

    (I know this is nitpicky - especially over two songs I hope they continue to play every show from here on out!)

    Just thought other people might be scratching their head as heads as well...thoughts? Opinions?
  2. 'I guess its the price of life, and the price isn't right - if the price is cheap'.

    He's not scatting at all.


  3. He only worked that out on leg 2. The early versions were just jumble.
  4. I guess that's the case of "unsatisfied-by-the-lyrics Bono", who tried to find something else he thought better.
  5. the only problem with this is that the alterations aren't usually an improvement, zooropa being a good case in point. they tend to sound forced and stick out quite noticably.

    in my opinion, anyhow.
  6. I love the 'You got sex/spirit, I got Soul' line in Out of Control. Fits much better IMO
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