As performed at Glastonbury 2011, acoustically by The Edge backing and harmonising with Bono.
Performance notes
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A slightly different take on a wonderful song. Note the top two strings ring the whole
time, giving that plangent, ethereal feel.
Standard tuning but detuned half A step - Eb Ab C#
NB the chords are named according to the fingering below - but as the guitar is detuned,
E is actually an Eb!
Chords
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E 022100
F#m11 244300
A/F# 2x2200
E/G 4x2100
Aadd9 577600
Bsus4 799800
Intro
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Verse I
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Green light Seven E-leven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke don't even want to
Hey now check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
The wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you you don't mind
Because when he hurts you you feel a-live
Oh yeah is that what it is?
Verse II
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Red lights grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It de-pends on who's a-round
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows
And if you look you look through me
And when you talk it's not to me
And when I touch you you don't feel a thing
Chorus I
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If I could stay then the night would give you up
If I could stay then the day would keep its trust
Stay and the night would be e-nough
Verse III
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Far away so close
Up with the static and the radio waves
With satell-ite tele-vision BBC
You can go anywhere
Miami New Orl-eans London Belfast Glastonbury
And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump you just might fall
And if you shout I'll only hear you
Chorus II
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If I could stay then the night would give you up
If I could stay then the day would keep its trust
If I could stay with the spirit I found
Stay with the demons I drowned
Stay and the night would be e-nough
Break (over verse chords)
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Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Outro (truncated verse)
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Three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet and there's no-one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel hits the ground
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
June 2011
watfordkev@gmail.com