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What about this song 'Mercy'? Are we getting to hear it or not? :unsure:

 

ON @u2.COM forum, I've read threads about the new album and they've all heard the song 'Mercy' and say it's one of the best U2 tracks ever, but they hope it won't be on the new album as they all know it so well now (well most people have'nt. <_< ). I posted asking for someone to send it to me, but my post was deleted. And there is no PM's on there so I could do nothing to get it. :( If anyone else is a member on a U2 forum try and get it. :P

 

You can read about it and other leaked songs here. http://www.atu2.com/newalbum/

 

 

 

 

From the official

 

 

Out Of Africa

 

U2 are in Africa, writing songs with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.

 

The band have set up a studio in Morocco’s medieval city of Fez where they have been writing and recording from morning till night for the past couple of weeks.

 

‘There’s no word on what the new material is for,' according to one of the team in Fez. ‘But they’re on a roll and the ideas are coming think and fast.’

 

The band met up with Eno and Lanois after flying down to North Africa from Cannes where 'U23D' was previewed earlier this month. It’s not the first time they have been in this ancient city. They visited in 1991 with director Stephane Sedanoui to shoot the video for Mysterious Ways.

 

More news from Morocco on the way.

 

http://www.u2.com/news/images/u2_fez.jpg

 

How great that they are working with Brian Eno again :cheer: The guy who produced Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby :wub:

Lyrics to Mercy. I really want to hear it :cry:

 

I was drinking some wine... and it turned to blood

What's the use of religion... if you're any good

I know i'm weedkiller honey... and you're sugar

If you're the prosecution... i get away with murder

If you were ice... i'm water

And with your telescope... i can see further

We're binary code... a one and a zero

You wanted violins... and you got nero

You're gravity... searching for the ground

You're silence... searching for a sound

Your heart is aching... your heart is my home

It's fascinating... i know i'll never be alone

I'm rippin' the stitches

You got two hands to rub

I'm in the ditches

Of someone else's love

Love is when i lie

Love puts the blue back in my eye

Love will come again

I'll be gone again... again

If you're hunger... baby let me feed it

If your heart is full... baby let me bleed it

And happiness is for... those who don't really need it

You love me... too much

You always loved me... too much

When i was rippin' the stitches

You got two fists to rub

I'm in the ditches

Of someone else's luck

Love is when i lie

Love puts the blue back in my eye

Love has come again

I am gone again

Love's got to be with the weak

Only then love gets a chance to speak

Love will come again

I'll be gone again... again

I... i can't escape myself

I hear you talk

Feeling nothing

I fear nothing

Feel....

I can hear so much

Fear nothing

I feel so much

Fear... nothing

Love has come again

I am gone again

Love is the end of history

The enemy of misery

Love has come again

I am gone again

Love is justice, not charity

Love brings with it a clarity

Love has come again

I'm alive again

Alive...

I am alive, baby i'm born again and again

And again, and again and again and again

Again

I read the album won't be out till the end of 2008 with the tour being 2009. :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:

U2.com have a new article about the recent songwriting sessions in Fez.

Sadly, it's available to subscribers only :unsure:

I found a few highlights though :w00t:

 

The sessions in Morocco lasted about two weeks, making a total of four weeks that U2 had worked with Eno and Lanois on writing new material. They'd previously done some writing and recording in France "a couple months ago." Larry says they'll probably continue this arrangement later in the year.

 

"One track they've been working up sounds like a soul song with distinctly Arabic rhythms. Another is an epic story-telling piece which seems to run for seven or eight minutes." (Ed. note: sounds like "Mercy," doesn't it?)

 

Local musicians -- percussionists and fiddlers -- have joined in some sessions.

 

Some of the music is "being informed by the distinct Arabic music scale."

 

 

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