U2 - A Sort Of Homecoming (Wide Awake In America Version)
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Filmed by Barry Devlin during the second leg of The Unforgettable Fire tour in Europe in the winter of 1984, for the live version of A Sort Of Homecoming featured on the EP Wide Awake In America.
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Lyrics:
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. - เพลง
Chris Martin (Coldplay): "I don't buy weekend tickets to Ireland and hang out in front of their gates, but U2 are the only band whose entire catalogue 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".
Which explains why Coldplay is basically "U2 Lite".
Coldplay are shoyt
We know. He ripped them and Radiohead off so he could have a career.
Awesome
@@rickf More like U2 Lite, Lite.
Bono’s voice here is EPIC…..Mullen is killing it ‼️
This was the real U2.
From a time when they were undeniably the greatest band in the world. This song is one of my U2's all-time favorites.
Phenomenal version of one of their most underrated songs. This may be the best bass playing I can remember hearing from Adam.
Wow, didn't think about "which is best". I see that though. He blisters The Fly though, that's my pick.
I have a hard time not placing Two Hearts Beat as One as #1 Adam Clayton.
Have a listen to Steve Harris form Iron Maiden, Now there is a bass player.
Best live version they ever did and it was at a sound check before a show!!!!!
Driving an empty military bus in Berlin in the small hours and this was played on the radio and I was long way from home and quite low at that time, magic unforgettable uplifting moment for me, love you U2, actually it was a sort of home coming lol
I have chills going down my spine listening to this. This is what made U2 the biggest band in the world. The early grassroots following. Then Wide Awake in America is when it popped.
I was on a train & it started to snow ..The wind was swirling & this track popped into my feed,I had forgotten all about it for so many years..The first few notes & I shuddered ..not with the cold but the unalloyed magic of U2 in an era growing up,I just missed ..This is Gotta be top 5 U2 tracks ever !
Still listening to this U2?classic in 2024🤘🏼🥰
From the summer of 1985. It was a great time to be a U2 fan.
Larry and Adam provide a solid backbone for this song. One of my favorites and totally underrated.
Who else think that the live performances of U2 are better than the recorded songs? So much energy when they perform live! Incredible!
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@crook district, I think more than any other band, that many of there songs are better live but I also like the studio versions in a different way. An example of this is streets have no name and bad from the rattle and hum movie. At first listen the live versions blow the studio versions away with more intensity and more directness but the studio versions have a subtlety that I also love.
Strongly agree
Good observation, agree! The songs are meant to be played live. Cchecked your songs out as well. Really cool stuff, keep it going!
I love ❤️ the live version because it’s more interesting. You can see the energy of the band.
this is probably the best EP I have ever owned. The B sides on this are amazing.... Garage Days by Metallica also sticks out in my memory box.
Bonos mullet was as iconic then as it is today.
He was the only person on planet Earth who really looked good in it. The rules just don't apply to the Irish.
Unforgettable Fire is in my top 5 albums of all time. When this came out I could not stop playing it. Every song was just perfect. Even today it brings me good feelings. Personally think this was U2's best album.
agree
Yes!!
Me too. Much better than that stupid Achtung Baby bullshit, where they’re just trying to be something that they’re not.
I thought it was better than the Joshua Tree, but liked Achtung Baby more
Me too. it set the stage for Joshua but I think it was better.
Everything and what U2 did with the Unforgettable Fire live is just pure perfection and magic.
I've always thought that this was a forgotten little gem...
They captured something on this album that was both magical and timeless. I love listening to this on vinyl when it snows here in Philadelphia. Something about the aesthetic that it adds to the moment.
Hopefully we get some snow this year! I missed all of it last year.
I think The Unforgettable Fire is their best album.
Thank you for painting this beautiful image in my mind. I saw the pre-tour for this album at the Tower when I wore a much younger man’s clothes. I’ve long since moved from Philadelphia and lost some of the friends With whom I attended that show.
There’s something about your comment that brings me back to that amazing time in my life.
Agreed on all points, Adam. Well said my Philadelphia friend. I’m also in Philadelphia and 88.5 WXPN FM just played U2’s studio version of this amazing song. Hence, why I’m here.
My fav U2 album. Their most emotional and hauntingly beautiful.
Best band in the world
Heard U2 on a college radio station in 1982 and they have been my favorite band since I was 14 and I'm 52 now and still love them.
When I heard under blood red sky when I was 12 that was it, simple the best, live awesome, best band there ever be
The first U2 song I ever heard was I Will Follow in 1980 when I was 10. Saw them on the 1987 Joshua Tree tour. Life changing.
The exact same thing for me. 1982 college radio. They never stopped being my favorite band.
@@hawkeyeted I never saw them. Fans say it's like church..
@@jasoncook6098That's also the first album I heard. My brother played it constantly. I was 13, and was instantly hooked. We both went to their concert in 1987. ☺️
Listen to that guy sing live!!!
In '87 U2 rolled through Vancouver, BC with the Joshua Tree Tour. During the set they played a long, searing rendition of "Bad" and 13 year old me was in awe. Up until then The Joshua Tree album and the War album were my primary points of reference for their music, so when I discovered The Unforgettable Fire because of "Bad" I was fully invested. Two years later I was seeing a girl who was 3 years older than me who played Wide Awake In America, on vinyl, on repeat. Through her I was introduced to the iconic live version of "Bad" that was a close approximation to the 11 or so minutes of euphoria I had witnessed two years prior. And I was also introduced to this live version of "A Sort of Homecoming" that elevated the studio version from UF. Those times were magical. Making out with an older girl in her apartment, while Bono sang to us "...And you hunger for the time
, Time to heal, 'desire' time...". In 2017, U2 returned to Vancouver with the Joshua Tree Tour again, and during that set they played an updated version of "...Homecoming", and I was suddenly young again as the euphoria, mixed with lush nostalgia, washed over me once more. This version of "...Homecoming" will always be close to my heart as I travel through life, now older and wiser, "...across the fields of mourning, to light that's in the distance..."
Love your story
I saw them in 2017 in New Orleans for that Joshua Tree Tour. This song always makes tears stream down my face and makes me miss the simpler times.
Great story...I always go back to the Wide Awake in America EP, perfection. As my favorite U2 song, I love to listen on occasion to the U2 - Bad Live (longest version ever) here on YT.
So far, so close. Same feelings from a fifteen years old guy from Barcelona, whose best friend used to listen U2 in his Opel Corsa. Since that time, all my whole life -50 years old now- and same feelings. Your words make me feel nostalgia and pride for following the best band in the world.
Probably the best percussion of any U2 song in this live version. Mullin was at his best here.
I'm a drummer and the dude is arguably the greatest pocket drummers of all time. Nothing showy just flat out good
Never thought about it until you brought it up, might be a great point.
As a drummer myself, I consider this one of the defining rhythms in rock music - absolutely beautiful
Far and away my favourite opening track by U2
I play this every St Patrick's day.
Bono’s voice is amazingly strong here. Am I wrong to say he doesn’t derive a little something extra from the Mullet. Feel the power!
I honestly can not imagine me alive without U2. You have been the soundtrack to my life from a child to a grown person. Thank you for ur art and the beautiful memories it recalls. ❤
U2 is my oldest love in music. Bono's voice, Edge's great sound and guitar playing and the solid and original spine of the band with Larry and Adam who are always forgotten... Juts one of the best bands still active that never changed a band member and that was never afraid to take chances. I would love your input on our last video. If you have just 3 minutes to listen and a bit more to comment, that would mean the world to me. Keep rockin' : th-cam.com/video/ufF4gUA_6rQ/w-d-xo.html
The Unforgettable Fire was such a chill album. Now I gotta go listen to Pride.
Listen to Wire.
I always gotta listen to bad
Still my favorite U2 album to date
Hi. My name is Ohnoits Thatguy. Nice to meet you.
I love all of the above mentioned songs plus this one and the title track are really special.
This song is a masterpiece... "I'll be there..." I think it would sound amazing mashed up with David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down"... "I'll be there for you..."
A real rock band. Family-friendly, down-to-earth, politically conscious without the excesses and melodrama. Awesome music which takes the centre stage.
this was such a great EP.. three sunrises is amazing... but this.. this song, under rated in the catalog imo, brilliant stuff !
U2 old video is the best. Miss the old good days.
It's like the lads are pouring themselves...their souls... out onto the stage for this. I could just swim in this song forever.
La meilleure époque de U2 !!!
It's a subtle thing but the way Bono stretches "to-ni-i-ight" on the "tonight with you" line at the very end makes this WAIA live version special and just gets me right in the feels every time. Love this song!
the live side of wide awake in america is some of the best stuff they've ever recorded in their career
I really love the Unforgettable Fire era. Bring some more, U2!
For me the best from U2 is 1984-1990
I hope that they remaster a whole concert from The Unforgettable Fire Tour
@@concerts6909 they really should
@@u2alpha Or from The Lovetown Tour
F***me, Bono has some serious pipes, BOOM!
"Had”. Bono HAD some serious pipes. Sadly not any more.
@@liftdweller ...dont think humans can maintain THAT level as they get older but man, it was some level...
@@liftdweller He could still belt out the "wide awake" part of Bad in 2015 but in 2019 you could tell he was pacing himself (as Bad was the 3rd song in the JT set). A cappella his voice is fried but in concert with in microphone enhancements and some O'Herlihy magic, Bono can get through a show good enough. I think the high point of his vocal power was TUF/TJT.
@@liftdweller you do realise how old he is now 🤔
His voice was such a weapon back then, I know he has had to tone it down over the years to preserve his vocal chords but these days he can often sound like he's not even trying. The last 2 times they have toured down under have come after the band had long breaks so he was almost as good as back then.
When I was in Reception Class at school 35 years ago I was caught by the teacher singing this song in the toilet and when I came out the whole class clapped 😂
the pure energetic power of this group - god Wide Awake in America brings back mems...
This is the best version of this song…..takes me back.
I love this version! ❤
something so otherworldly and timeless about this song
Nach so vielen Jahren, finde ich dieses Lied, diese Version immer noch gut und baut mich immer wieer auf... Danke U2....U2 ...Metallica, THX
The tone on that guitar is timeless.
He still has that guitar. It's one of his favorites. He broke it out recently, when recording their new album. They didn't want him to, because they didn't want that old U2 sound, but the Edge felt the song called for it. It is very unique and works so well with his style of playing. He likes creating tones that just ring out and that guitar can do it like no other. He has other Gibson Explorers, but that particular one he loves.
He also uses alot of effects as well, constantly trying to come up with new sounds. His guitar tech, Dallas Schu, said he averages at leat four different effects on many of their songs. It keeps everyone very busy when playing live. He is also very guitar specific. If he recorded a song with a Les Paul, or a Stratocaster, he only uses those guitars for that song when playing live. He has at least two of each kind of guitars he uses. Quite often, Dallas is still getting guitars ready 10 minutes before showtime.
@@douglasownbey656 Thaks for that insight. That's awesome that he still uses that guitar in spite of how far they've evolved since those 80s heydays.
Coming across this album in 1984, I had never experienced music like this. I was used to top 40 hits where there was a chorus repeated many times throughout the song. This song was like long form free style poetry set to music. I was instantly hooked
This L.p has always been my fav.
Wooohoo!!👌👌Excelente👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎤🎼🎼🎼👍👍👍
U2 is my oldest love in music. Bono's voice, Edge's great sound and guitar playing and the solid and original spine of the band with Larry and Adam who are always forgotten... Juts one of the best bands still active that never changed a band member and that was never afraid to take chances. I would love your input on our last video. If you have just 3 minutes to listen and a bit more to comment, that would mean the world to me. Keep rockin' : th-cam.com/video/ufF4gUA_6rQ/w-d-xo.html
@@RudeeOlivier ☺Hace decadas que escucho a U2 y realmente nombran tan poco a Adam y Larry que muchas veces hasta yo me olvido de sus nombres😕
Oh my god...that song!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
This is really the song (and version) that changed everything for me. I was already a U2 fan from 1980-1984...but when this video and song on the EP were released, I was hooked forever. I wouldn't see my first U2 concert until May of 1987....then I saw many, many U2 shows over the next 30 years (maybe 25 since then) and never saw this song performed. Then in May of 2017...they played it about 3 songs into the set nearly 30 years to the day that I first saw them. A long journey...but totally worth it!
Some of their songs just tend to fall by the wayside when it comes to making the setlist. For a very long time, 40 was dropped and years later they started bringing it back, sometimes adding it at the tail end of another song. One Tree Hill was like that too, but it's a bit tricky for Edge to remember how to play it.
best album they did by a country mile.
I love this live version.. it gives me goosebumps ♥️ One of the best performances from The Unforgettable Fire era
Goosebumps here too, every time, especially with the clapping build up.
Their wide awake in america ep is just incredible
Still the best version ❤✌🏻🎶
Their greatest song in my opinion!!! Masterpiece!!!
Where’s the time machine to go back and witness this magic
Seriously! I was fortunate enough to see the unforgettable fire tour and I wish I could go back and see them at that era again
@@scottthesportsguy your lucky to see one of the greatest bands of all time in their best era, I seen them first time on the Pop Mart tour.
@parraeels1100 Marty McFly and Doc Brown need to consider us fans borrow the DeLorean for such a trip! And considering we're going back to 1985, I can't see it being an issue!!
@@brandonholmes8655 ha ha... If Only
Larry Mullen Jr greatest rock drummer of all time!
I love the minimalism of the early U2 tour production designs. This particular tour is a very small stage with a few backlights with a hazer to highlight the beams. No moving lights, none of the giant video screens and gimmicks of the Zoo TV/Popmart/360/UV eras, just 4 guys playing good music for thousands of kids in an arena. Even Bono never really cared for it much. I remember him saying sarcastically about the Popmart stage "thank you for building this - whatever this is". Elevation/Vertigo they got back to their roots as far as tour production design goes (don't get me wrong, Willie Williams is a brilliant production designer - Zoo TV/Popmart really upped the ante for concert production) and this is U2 in their element. Once you cut out the giant lemon disco ball, the "in the round" stage, and all the "Spinal Tap" frills and thrills, you just have a great show because of those songs and those four lads who were pals in school and became one of the biggest bands on the planet.
U2 was in their absolute prime late 80's
Unforgettable fire is underrated.
I am 55, I have chill listening to that song...
Music of my youth. Love it
The bass line on this is incredible.
Adam doesn't get enough credit for what he can do. Especially, around that time period and forward.
Despite our coming ups and downs we will be together when your time comes Julie..🌈☀️💖. St Michael 😥.
Quanti brividi.. Quanti ricordi.. Periodo irripetibile.. 🇮🇹 From Rome italy
My U2, The Band, The legend, Bono; such songs to listen to the words of love, peace together; they help so many My Band, that’s what makes the world a better place….from the cradle to the grave oh yes!
Still one of my U2 faves.
Even after almost 30 years this song still moves me 💜
There is a better version of this amazing song.I have it on an EP. Can't find it here
"And the wind will crack, in winter time, this bomb blast lightning waltz, no spoken words...just a scream................
Closer to 40 years!
I'll never forget this day when i left it was the most painful thing i had to in my life😢 i am coming home😢
Bono was on fire!!
good old days,busy dockyards,harbours and U2 great.
his voice is so beautiful
This is the song that made me fall in love with U2.
Same! The 4th album made me realize how amazing Bono sounded and being the first track on The Unforgettable Fire album and also made me feel so inspirational and powerful. That voice and lyrics is truly one of a kind.
Same. The Unforgettable Fire was my baptism in U2. This song made me love them, and Pride made me a fanatic. I was a kid just starting high school, but U2 brought such honesty to their music. It wasn’t the same throw away “let’s party” or “she loves me” lyrics.
U2 makes you feel some deep connection to what they’re playing, what Bono is saying.
"And you know it's time to go, across the sleet and driving snow, across the field of mourning..." .... I remember making a trip in the middle of winter across the country...never feel like I would live this...
April 2023 ❤
Cheers 🍻 from the Cleveland waterfront
Every U2 show I get a cardiac test…cannot help but get revved up ‼️
wow what a great song! that one guy's fedora hat inspired me to get my own fedora hat which i have been wearing ever since then. OMG that was 40 years ago - maybe i should trade my hat in for a new one
This always reminds of school years growing up in Ireland. We loved U2 but couldn't wait to leave Ireland. There was no work to be found. U2's music always kept us hopeful.
How are things in your country today my friend? From a fellow U2 fan in Minnesota.
@@jayjayfreeman I moved to New York in 1988 but back in Ireland now. Hopefully Covid will soon be behind us.
This has always been one of my favorite U2 songs. So underrated!❤
Bono sings in an intense trance
Don't you just love the early U2 tracks still sounds amazing 😎🇮🇪 turn it up loud
This version is awesome love 🤘🏼🎤🎸💯🥰
The band hesitated for a moment and looked to their leader. Someone had suck into their tent without paying. Band security was insistent that they had the "right to" collect their fee. The band hesitated, again!
The bands leader made his decision, "I am the leader of this band!" And a song was heard, paying the wind for God to hear.
Perfection.
Ladies and gentlemen this is how you play a Explorer.... One chord driving the whole song...
This song is pure poetry. Enough said. I have traveled thousand and thousands of miles and this song is part of that journey thru this life. Love U2.
I know exactly what you mean
I know you folk love stories about first U2 experiences. I was 15 years old sitting in the den chair and this came on MTV. My U2 fan journey began here! The tired relief of coming home!
Let's build a bridge to a future post nuclear war time and make that time okay. C'mon everybody, we'll build a bridge across the sea and land.
POST NUCLEAR WAR 2025: "On the borderline we run...."
They should play this live more. It's amazing.
They havent sang it in years :( its one of their best songs.
He can’t sing it anymore.
Bono sings with such emotion, I love Bono.
My dream is to take me and my 2 brothers to a concert of u2, xxx
Everybody talks about Bono and his more-than-perfect vocals here, but i want to give some credits to The Edge too. He's not the fastest or most technical guitarist (who cares? it's not speed metal), but he's got a very unique sound (you can recognize his guitar among the millions), he's a very creative songwriter, and he uses his effects not for some selfish guitar solo things, but to blend into the songs, he moves with the band - he's more a band person than a soloist guy -, and what is a very important thing, he is a great vocalist. It may look easy to play this song, but try to sing the vocal lines and play these besutiful, ringing arpeggios at the same time. It's way harder than it seems. He is one of the most important and influental guitarist since the 80s. Forget about Bono's personal stupidnesses and all that shit, The Edge deserves every credit he gets.
Teamwork! These guys are grown men and know what they are doing onstage.
I think edge and Bono together make magic
Perfectly said, friend, perfectly said.
Oh this entire band is 100% greater than the sum of its parts. That goes for all of them and it’s exemplified in this song perfectly. Bono’s voice is on point, his politics are on point, LMJ’s drumming is perfect, edges guitar is amazing, Adam’s bass is a force. Soooo good so happy I saw them live twice
I've always thought Edge's backing vocals are superb.
Seems like they are releasing material in chronological order. Cannot wait till they get to the nineties!
Me too! The 90's is my favourite U2 decade. So many amazing songs and videos. :)
when they get to SOE, that means we will get a new album
@@juandicorrea08 that would be awesome!
This is the best version of this song and it’s all down to the guitar chords at the beginning
Yeah. Beautiful soulful guitar in the intro by The Edge.
1:38 has got to be shot on the m6 motorway at Washwood Heath , Birmingham because they played there on the unforgettable fire tour in 1984.
The audio itself is the audio used for “Wide Awake in America” recorded on November 14, 1984 at Wembley Arena in London England. It was not recorded at the concert but instead was recorded at a closed soundcheck before the performance, and the crowd noise was later added by producer Tony Visconti in the studio.
This music is 37 years old, yet it doesn't require a timemachine to relive the music all over again, cause this is a kind of music that feeds the heart for eternity.
Hi u2 fans🥰
Hello 😊
Olá
U2 at the best doing a live performance from The Unforgettable Fire
The good thing about bands like U2 is that there is always more, much more, even the old ones but with the vibe of today ... Here in Brazil there is a song that says "what a good life that never comes back", but there will always be a memory that tastes like homesickness or nostalgia ... 👍🤗🐞😇🍀🦋🥰💃💃💃💃
A saudade!
So strong feeling
@@notventjan7329 that word can be translated by this image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade
we have these phrase just exactly the same in Hungary (what a good life...), and yeah, U2 brings back memories and still sounds refreshing. when i travel to... anywhere (to my father, to my friends, etc), and when i'm going back to my home, this song comes to my mind every time, and i love travelling on a bus, on a train and listening to Bono's lines, especially the final ones, "i am coming home".
dear fellow Sister, cheers from Hungary! :)