-It´s a, uh...
-It´s a strange place we find ourselves in.
It´s dangerous out there, you know.
You have a -- You have a little Emperor
there with a bad haircut
and his finger on the nuclear arsenal.
And a lot of people in silly costumes following him around.
And then you have the dude from North Korea.
So...
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
That´s true.
[ Cheers and applause ]
But you do a song like that, and it´s just a powerful thing.
Even just to change the lyrics and do that for us.
I appreciate that.
Because we love having you here.
And last time I think I saw you, I had a bandaged finger.
I don´t know if you remember this.
You probably don´t, because you´re super rock stars.
-No, I also have -- we have similar...
...injuries.
-This is the most awesomest thing that ever happened.
You guys honored me.
You actually said, "Hey, would you like to get up
at one of our shows and sing a song?"
This is a true story, and -- At the garden.
And I go, "Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, of course."
And you go, "Well, this is great.
We do this thing where we pull
a fan out of the audience"...
and do you remember this at all?
This really happened.
All right, you remember.
[ Laughter ]
-So, you pull a fan out of the audience.
So I go out and I have a sign that says
"Singer with a broken finger."
[ Laughter ]
Because at the time I had a bandaged finger.
-Okay, it´s coming back. It´s coming back.
-It gets better. -We rehearsed this
in the afternoon, me singing with you guys.
And so I was like, "All right." So I go, "Great,
I´m very excited." That part of the concert comes.
Security grabs me. They pull me in the background.
I come around the thing.
And I have the sign, "Singer with a broken finger."
And I hold up the sign and I´m hiding my face
and I´m holding the sign up like this, you know.
And you go, [ As Bono ] "Uh, who do we have in the crowd
tonight who wants to sing with us?
Anyone out there?"
[ Laughter ]
-It was going so well until this moment.
-[ Laughter ]
-And so I go, here we go. This is it.
This is the moment, you know? And then you go, "Right there!"
And I go, "Okay."
And I look, and you´re not talking to me at all.
[ Laughter ]
It was some girl over there, some fan.
And you pull her out of the crowd.
And I go, "Okay."
And someone behind me goes, "Put the sign down, man!"
[ Laughter ]
And I go -- "Put the sign down!
Hey, idiot! Put the sign..." And I go,
"Well, this is part of the whole thing.
Hold on." And I go -- And you start doing your whole...
And you totally forgot that I was there.
And I´m like, "Oh, my gosh."
-Yeah, no. -I´m going to get into
a fist fight here. They´re screaming at me.
-Listen, you -- Look... -I saw it happening live.
I saw the whole... -Edge saved the whole thing,
because he walked over. He walked over and he whispered.
He goes, "I think you forgot about Jimmy."
And you immediately go, "Oh, yes, the singer
with the broken finger!"
[ Laughter ]
-Actually, the truth is, on a stage, I...
-He goes into a zone. -I often don´t know who I am,
where I am, this kind of thing.
And actually, it´s often Edge that asks me to snap out of it.
-I did this thing where I just go.... ooh!
Back in your body!
[ Laughter ]
-Back in your body.
-That´s not far from the truth. -No.
-I want to talk about, uh -- "Experience,"
the "Songs of Experience." This is an album U2 fans
were waiting for.
This is the first single.
And, the album is -- It´s coming out, isn´t it?
-Ask him. -Yep. It´s coming out.
-I´m always saying it´s coming out.
-And you think it is, too? -And Edge reels it back in.
[ Laughter ]
-It´s coming out. It´s definitely coming out.
-Quest, he wants to E.Q. it
as it´s going into the shops.
-Yeah, exactly.
-But it is definitely finished. -It´s finished.
All right, good. So, we know that.
-It is. I swear it is.
-Yeah. -But we´re actually playing it
on "The Joshua Tree" tour.
We´re going to play some new tunes,
which was not really the plan.
We were throwing a birthday party for an album
that was 30 years old, and now it´s become the launch
for this new songs.
And it´s the tour that just keeps going on.
-No, they´ve been sold out everywhere.
And it keeps going.
-It feels -- I don´t know.
It feels oddly relevant,
you know, in wonderful and in not so wonderful ways.
I mean, every night I´m reminded why --
we fell in love with this country.
And, you know, it´s not just a country.
It´s an idea. It´s a great idea.
One of the best ideas ever.
But you can feel, in recent times,
that idea get a bit twisted.
And then you have the D.R.E.A.M.ers.
I mean, we are Irish.
We´re the D.R.E.A.M.ers.
I mean, this country was built for and by D.R.E.A.M.ers.
Your grandparents, both sides, if I remember...
-Yeah. -...were D.R.E.A.M.ers, right?
-Absolutely. -If there´s no room
for D.R.E.A.M.ers,
then where are we in America?
Where are we? It´s the American dream.
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-Totally agree.
Totally agree.