The Cross
Date	March 30, 1995
Location	The Pod in Dublin, Ireland
Streaming  Real Audio	5 minutes 47 seconds
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During a party secretly held at the Pod after a concert at the Point Theatre of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, Bono sung "The Cross", from the album "Sign Of The Times" by Prince. 

Prince played the guitar while Bono sung.  The Artist didn't help singing because the song was taken from the repertory previous to his change of name.

Bono was fully into the song, veins sticking out of his neck, squeezing the microphone tight enough to extract water out of it...and Prince was a vision of cool, expressionless while playing the guitar. 

Bono's performance was quite good, apart from some missing words in the second part of the song. 

Later Bono declared: "Prince is a great composer and a great dancer.  To me, he's the Ken Russel of rock.  Prince is like Ken's brilliant and spectacular movies. His show is like Broadway under acid.  He's a great guitarist."

The Cross

Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry, he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross

Ghettos 2 the left of us
Flowers 2 the right
There'll be bread 4 all of us
If we can just bear the cross

Sweet song of salvation
A pregnant mother sings
She lives in starvation
Her children need all that she brings

We all have our problems
Some BIG, some are small
Soon all of our problems
Will be taken by the cross

Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry 4 he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross

Ghettos 2 the left of us
Flowers 2 the right
There'll be bread 4 all, y'all
If we can just, just bear the cross, yeah

We all have our problems
Some are BIG, some are small
Soon all of our problems, y'all
Will be taken by the cross

The cross

The cross