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"Please" from U2's album "Pop"

So you never knew love
Until you crossed the line of grace
Then you never felt wanted
'Till you had someone slap your face
So you never felt alive
Until you almost wasted away
You had to win
You couldn't just pass
The smartest ass
At the top of the class
Your flying colors
Your family tree
And all your lessons in history

Please
Please
Please
Get up off your knees
Please
Please
Please
Please

So you never knew
How low you'd stoop to make that call
And you never knew
What was on the ground 'till they mad you crawl
So you never knew that
The heaven you keep you stole

Your catholic blues
Your convent shoes
Your stick on tattoos
Now they're making the news
Your holy war
Your northern star
Your sermon on the mount
From the booth of your car

Please
Please
Please
Get up off your knees
Please
Please
Please
Leave me out of this

So love is hard and love is tough
But love is not what you're thinking of

September
Streets capsizing
Spilling over
Down the drain
Shards of glass splinters like rain
But you could only feel
Your own pain
October
Talking getting nowhere
November
December
Remember
Are we just starting again

Please
Please
Please
Get up off your knees
Please
Please
Please
Please

So love is big, bigger than us
But love is not what your thinking of
It's what lovers deal
It's what lovers steal
You know I've found it hard to receive
'Cause you my love I could never believe
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This is most likely about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Before they played it on their Popmart tour, Bono said, "Mexico, say a prayer for our country then. Please, please." 

In the book U2 by U2, Bono explained that this is about "a certain kid of person you'd meet in the middle-class Dublin suburbs, who are very sympathetic to the IRA paramilitaries and provide the intellectual support base for militant Republicanism. It's people who think ideas are more valuable than people. 'Love is hard and love is tough, but love is not what you're thinking of.' It is a song about terror, really. Are there ever any excuses for it? 'September, streets capsizing, spilling over, down the drains. Shards of glass just like rain...' It was the Docklands bombing in London that it referred to and the breakdown of peace talks in Northern Ireland but after 9/11 it became impossible to sing."

The cover of the single shows four Irish politicians involved in the Northern Ireland peace talks. They are: Gerry Adams, John Hume, David Trimble, and Ian Paisley.

U2 performed this at the MTV Video Music awards on September 4, 1997.

Bono recorded his vocals in one take.

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