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U2 — Until The End Of The World (live)
Album: Alternative NRG
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Released: 1994
Length: 4:54
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Haven't seen you in quite a while
I was down the hold just passing time
Last time we met was a low-lit room
We were as close together as a bride and groom
We ate the food, we drank the wine
Everybody having a good time
Except you
You were talking about the end of the world

I took the money
I spiked your drink
You miss too much these days if you stop to think
You lead me on with those innocent eyes
You know I love the element of surprise
In the garden, I was playing the tart
I kissed your lips and broke your heart
You, you were acting
Like it was the end of the world

Love, love, love
Love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love
Love, love, love

(Love, love, love)
In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they learned to swim
(Love, love, love)
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
Waves of regret and waves of joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You, you said you'd wait
Till the end of the world
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i think it might be my 2nd fav U2 song of all. i like this version, as well. 
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Second U2 song in less than an hour? Someone needs to hit shuffle a little harder.
Posted 1 year ago by TLynneHenry    [ Reply ]
 aonley wrote:
U2 has become the world's greatest U2 cover band.
 
I just came in to see who it was singing "Until The End Of The World." Thought it might be Billy Idol... I saw U2 around 2010 and they were quite good but it got me thinking about how much of their sound is added in post-production. I will likely only listen to "Joshua Tree" or earlier-- the stuff I have on vinyl.
Posted 2 years ago by misterbearbaby    [ Reply ]
they dropped it down a key to accommodate his voice? haven't heard the album in awhile but it seemed higher...
Posted 2 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
 gew55 wrote:
In the early days i found this amazing. Later on i discovered really good music Like Steven Wilson, Porcupine tree, Mariusz Duda, Lunatic Soul, Tool, A Perfect Circle. No more U2 for me 




This is exactly how I feel. No more U2 for me too.
Posted 2 years ago by joko63808    [ Reply ]
In the early days i found this amazing. Later on i discovered really good music Like Steven Wilson, Porcupine tree, Mariusz Duda, Lunatic Soul, Tool, A Perfect Circle. No more U2 for me 

Posted 2 years ago by gew55    [ Reply ]
U2 has become the world's greatest U2 cover band.
Posted 2 years ago by aonley    [ Reply ]
This was one of the most memorable high-energy songs of the concert Kevin and I saw during their Elevation Tour just weeks after 9-11. Mind-blowingly good!
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
If you ever get a chance to see the movie Until the End of the World that this track is from, take it. It's a pretty amazing globe trotting sci-fi adventure epic. The incredible sound track had Lou Reed, Neneh Cherry, Nick cave, the Talking Heads and Elvis Costello among others.  Unfortunately the movie was not released to video in the US so it never really made it to netflix etc. Totally worth watching or at the very least listening to the soundtrack.
Posted 2 years ago by elbunts    [ Reply ]
When he sings "Love, love, love . . .," the reverb/echo makes it sound like he is saying, "Blah, blah, blah . . ." Kinda ruins it for me.
Posted 2 years ago by maggierob    [ Reply ]
U2 Haters hate this band like it was dog poo and chewing gum stuck to one's shoe. Like sand in the crotch of a wet bathing suit. Makes me smile. 
Posted 2 years ago by dwlangham    [ Reply ]
This live version hurts. They ruined their own great song. His voice is so thin, weak and stretched, it's pathetic. They should have called it a day. Like 20 years ago.
Posted 8 years ago by maboleth    [ Reply ]
Cant get anymore "GodLike" then a great Rock song about "A Day In The Life Of Jesus"  - Holy Thursday.
Posted 9 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
I love that they made a romantic brotherhood song about Jesus and Judas...
Posted 9 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]

Please, Bill.  Can't you control this?

For me, one a day is excessive, but I'll tolerate it.  More than one U2 track a day just seems . . . tortuous.


Posted 9 years ago by bstjames    [ Reply ]
 stalfnzo wrote:
The only thing worse than a U2 song is a live U2 song. At least in the studio they can edit the music so that it's not quite so obvious what lousy musicians they really are. 

 
Ouch. Someone took their grumpy pills. 
 
Posted 9 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 Rockit wrote:
Everyone in my van down by the river enjoys this tune!

 
Chris Farley as Matt Foley, marching in place
Posted 9 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
This is actually a good version. Nice going, Bill!
Posted 9 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
The only thing worse than a U2 song is a live U2 song. At least in the studio they can edit the music so that it's not quite so obvious what lousy musicians they really are. 
Posted 9 years ago by stalfnzo    [ Reply ]
U2 sound like such posers when played right after Dead Can Dance.
Posted 9 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
if we could stay 32 forever!
Posted 10 years ago by KaraokeVox    [ Reply ]

Love the version of this that they played at the R&R Hall of Fame induction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_PIqx8J71Y

Beware Bono haters, you get him talking at the beginning.  You've been warned but you probably won't subject yourself to this anyway.  It's a fine performance.


Posted 10 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
Rejuvenated the song for me.  I love it again!
Posted 10 years ago by WannabeBanned    [ Reply ]
Loves me some live U2! 
Posted 10 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
Banal and contrived.
Posted 10 years ago by BobLoblaw    [ Reply ]
I just want to take this moment to cry like a baby about how much I hate Bono and how the PSD button is the only way I could have made it through this moment in time.
Posted 10 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
Bono is a god damn (deleted by censor)!!!!!!!!
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
Bono is too bono.
Posted 11 years ago by t00lur    [ Reply ]
 tomcool wrote:

You're welcome!  It's from Alternative NRG: Greenpeace Compilation, which also has a great version of Annie Lennox's "Cold" and other worthwhile cuts.

 
Thanks for the reply, tomcool. It's been added to the list.


Posted 11 years ago by cosmiclint    [ Reply ]
Love this song live, but I can honestly say I like bootlegs better.  There's a certain sound you hear at the show that's missing, but if you were to combine this with a good audience recording (assuming one exists), it'd sound like it does live.  For my money, this song peaked in 2001.
Posted 11 years ago by kevinc    [ Reply ]
 Rockit wrote:
Everyone in my van down by the river enjoys this tune!
 

You got some cool people in your van!  We be dancing here...  this live version is marvelous...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Everyone in my van down by the river enjoys this tune!
Posted 11 years ago by Rockit    [ Reply ]
Great tune, both studio and live version. 
Does the screaming crowd enhance the track or distract us? But the band is red hot. 
Posted 11 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]


Everybody in my church loves this song...

 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Yes, definitely brings back the whole trip of seeing them do it, from the 6th row; THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE A U2 SHOW, HELL YEAH!
Posted 11 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 tomcool wrote:
Finally!  My upload.  Yes, it's Rock and Roll!
 
Btw, where is this from? (And thanks again - great contribution to the RP library!)
Posted 11 years ago by cosmiclint    [ Reply ]
great live version, but the upfront screaming women are stellarly annoying. why can't they just rock out and dance and maybe...sing along? I'll never get this "screaming-through-a-complete-concert" thing. why don't they scream down their stereo and stay...at home?
Posted 12 years ago by Nadine    [ Reply ]
 tomcool wrote:
Finally!  My upload.  Yes, it's Rock and Roll!
 
Thanks tomcool!!!
Posted 12 years ago by cosmiclint    [ Reply ]
Sure they are a little commercial nowadays and Bono can be a real tool, but I gotta give him his props. Live he has some serious chops no doubt!
Posted 12 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
somehow I KNEW it would be U2 after Archive - MAGIC :D

Posted 12 years ago by matude    [ Reply ]
 Alexandra wrote:


I LOVE this live version!!! It's always so cool to hear this at their concert, and see Edge gettin' down on that riff. {#Guitarist}
 

THAT riff could be used to repel an ALIEN FLEET... {#Lol}
Posted 13 years ago by MiracleDrug    [ Reply ]
7 -> 8!
Posted 13 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
perfect song...
Posted 13 years ago by MiracleDrug    [ Reply ]
 boober wrote:
I always liked the line...
"I was drowning in sorrows,but my sorrows learned to swim"
clever boy that Bono!
 
. . . and "You miss too much these days if you stop to think"!
Posted 13 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 tomcool wrote:
Finally!  My upload.  Yes, it's Rock and Roll!
 

I LOVE this live version!!! It's always so cool to hear this at their concert, and see Edge gettin' down on that riff. {#Guitarist}
Posted 13 years ago by Alexandra    [ Reply ]
The Edge - 9
Posted 13 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
 boober wrote:
I always liked the line...
"I was drowning in sorrows,but my sorrows learned to swim"
clever boy that Bono!
  
 anabel wrote:


Frida Kahlo said it first though!
 
Her quote was more descriptive than Bono's:

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."



Posted 13 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 boober wrote:
I always liked the line...
"I was drowning in sorrows,but my sorrows learned to swim"
clever boy that Bono!
 

Frida kahlo said it first though!
Posted 13 years ago by anabel    [ Reply ]
Great movie, great title track.  Definitively.
Posted 13 years ago by gillespp    [ Reply ]
Great movie, wish I could say the same of the title track.

The soundtrack of this movie is so much full of win though! 
Posted 13 years ago by palad1    [ Reply ]
Bitchin'!!! {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 13 years ago by tnt_thomas    [ Reply ]
{#Guitarist} Hell. Yes.
Posted 13 years ago by Alexandra    [ Reply ]
Not a particularly good version of this song.  Bono sounds as unenthused in this track as I am of his band.

 
Posted 14 years ago by tallman    [ Reply ]
great version
Posted 14 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
I always liked the line...
"I was drowning in sorrows,but my sorrows learned to swim"
clever boy that Bono!
Posted 14 years ago by boober    [ Reply ]
 HazzeSwede wrote:
I know the guy that came up with the band name U 2.
That's all,,,{#Cool}
 
I'll bite....
What's the story?

Posted 14 years ago by boober    [ Reply ]
When it comes to this song, I'm a purist — please give me the original or soundtrack version any day.  This live version sucks....   {#Snooty}
Posted 14 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
They are dragging this song...Bono-bo sounds like he's about to fall asleep. (I normally like these guys.){#Think}
Posted 14 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
Not a huge fan of U2 per se, but I have loved this song long and hard - so it's really nice to hear a different version.  
Posted 14 years ago by KitKat    [ Reply ]
Love this song, and the album that the original came from
Posted 14 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
 Toke wrote:
Take the amazing guitar and percussion out and you will have U0 as thats what makes the band what it is...

 
Srsly. I was just listening to The Edge's overtones and thinking: "how does he do that?"

Posted 14 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
Makes me wish I'd seen them before they (and I..) got old.

{#Bounce}
Posted 14 years ago by fergie348    [ Reply ]
I know the guy that came up with the band name U 2.
That's all,,,{#Cool}
Posted 14 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
Oh Orpheus, lighten up.  You haven't benefited from how Mac/iPods have changed the music world?  What did you think Bono and the band were?  The second coming?  No wonder you're disillusioned ...
orpheus wrote:
bono bono bono, (or should I be saying Steve Jobs' multi-faceted ho), now you're whoring yourself, the band, and the "U2 concert experience" out for blackberries. Have you no shame whatsoever? Don't you already have more money than god without having to prostitute yourself and the band by hawking ipods and fucking blackberries? Guess since your latest musical excursion didn't do as well on the charts, etc. (since it's mediocre at best), you feel that you have to make up the freakin' difference by being a commercial spokesman for all things MacIntosh? God what a fool I was to have loved everything about you in the 80's and what you at least at the time, seemed to stand for back then, (ie integrity, etc.). I guess you were just having us all on, or did fame, money and excess totally corrupt everything about you that was worth saving? {#Skull}



Posted 15 years ago by plaice3    [ Reply ]
 orpheus wrote:
bono bono bono, (or should I be saying Steve Jobs' multi-faceted ho), now you're whoring yourself, the band, and the "U2 concert experience" out for blackberries. Have you no shame whatsoever? Don't you already have more money than god without having to prostitute yourself and the band by hawking ipods and fucking blackberries? Guess since your latest musical excursion didn't do as well on the charts, etc. (since it's mediocre at best), you feel that you have to make up the freakin' difference by being a commercial spokesman for all things MacIntosh? God what a fool I was to have loved everything about you in the 80's and what you at least at the time, seemed to stand for back then, (ie integrity, etc.). I guess you were just having us all on, or did fame, money and excess totally corrupt everything about you that was worth saving? {#Skull}
 

What's wrong with makin' a buck? Sounds like he kicked your dog or something.
Posted 15 years ago by Jamunca    [ Reply ]
bono bono bono, (or should I be saying Steve Jobs' multi-faceted ho), now you're whoring yourself, the band, and the "U2 concert experience" out for blackberries. Have you no shame whatsoever? Don't you already have more money than god without having to prostitute yourself and the band by hawking ipods and fucking blackberries? Guess since your latest musical excursion didn't do as well on the charts, etc. (since it's mediocre at best), you feel that you have to make up the freakin' difference by being a commercial spokesman for all things MacIntosh? God what a fool I was to have loved everything about you in the 80's and what you at least at the time, seemed to stand for back then, (ie integrity, etc.). I guess you were just having us all on, or did fame, money and excess totally corrupt everything about you that was worth saving? {#Skull}


Posted 15 years ago by orpheus    [ Reply ]
Take the amazing guitar and percussion out and you will have U0 as thats what makes the band what it is...

Posted 15 years ago by Toke    [ Reply ]
I really hope he's singing " blah blah blah blah" that's what I usually hear when listening to U2
Posted 15 years ago by MrDill    [ Reply ]
Awesome version!  Hadn't heard this before.

Thanksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Posted 15 years ago by Kite_Flyer    [ Reply ]
Jesus and Judas at the last super
Posted 15 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
Brings back great memories of the shows I saw on this tour. What a blast!{#Bananajam}
Posted 15 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
got enough of U2. let's face the truth, they are not that great.
Posted 15 years ago by mkd    [ Reply ]
 Shimmer wrote:
This song and album (Achtung Baby) marked the point at which bombast eclipsed music for U2. Bono's got a few clever lines in this song and the Edge sounds as good as ever, but all it adds up to is a racket.
 
hey boys....turn down that racket.!...like my mom used to say
never understood why people get so excited over them {#Rolleyes}{#Stupid}{#Eek} 
Posted 16 years ago by crazy    [ Reply ]
As good as they got. Stellar rock.
Posted 16 years ago by nigelr    [ Reply ]
This song and album (Achtung Baby) marked the point at which bombast eclipsed music for U2. Bono's got a few clever lines in this song and the Edge sounds as good as ever, but all it adds up to is a racket.

Posted 16 years ago by Shimmer    [ Reply ]
Great version of the song....

I've only heard the studio version for the movie soundtrack...
Posted 16 years ago by scruzer    [ Reply ]
 davin wrote:
Definitely one of the highlights of the ZooTV tour.  This, and The Fly just destroyed stadium after stadium, arena after arena..
 
{#Yes}  Most definitely. *sigh* I miss those days.

Posted 16 years ago by Alexandra    [ Reply ]
Definitely one of the highlights of the ZooTV tour.  This, and The Fly just destroyed stadium after stadium, arena after arena..
Posted 16 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
I agree, much better than the studio version. Guitar intro is quite rockin'.
Posted 18 years ago by ElleGlamour    [ Reply ]