Set List from September 16, 2009:
Breathe
No Line on the Horizon
Get on Your Boots
Magnificent
Beautiful Day
Still Haven’t Found
Elevation
Your Blue Room
Unknown Caller
Until the End of the World
Stay
Unforgettable Fire
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I’ll Go Crazy If I don’t Go Crazy Tonight Remix
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
One
Streets
Ultraviolet
With or Without You
Moment of Surrender
Here is a compelling excerpt from Bono’s speech after accepting the 2007 NAACP Chairman’s Award on March 2, 2007:
This is true religion, true religion will not let us fall asleep in the comfort of our freedom. “Love thy neighbor” is not a piece of advice, it’s a command. And that means a lot. That means that in the global village, we’re going to have to start loving a whole lot more people. That’s what that means … because where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.
And to those in the church who still sit in judgement on the AIDS emergency, let me climb into the pulpit for just one moment. Because whatever thoughts we have about God who he is, or even if God exists, most will agree that God has a special place for the poor.
The poor are where God lives. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is where the opportunity is lost and lives are shattered. God is with the mother who has infected a child with a virus that will take both their lives. God is under the rubble in the cries we hear during wartime. God, my friends, is with the poor, and God is with us if we are with them.
Here’s a bit more of the speech, in video:
There are other days when I:
… don’t want to talk to anyone, at all
… feel like getting out my remote control truck and driving it through mud puddles
… am so happy I could burst!
… feel like nothing is working the way it should
… identify best with Elijah – wanting to throw in the towel and have it all end
… feel like the disease
… feel like the remedy
… think that we waste so much of our time doing things that do not matter
… want to just vent, but I know it won’t help the situation any
… wish I could take a long, long nap
