| After the October
21, 1989 concert in Sydney, Australia, U2 went to the Triple M studios
in Sydney for an interview on The Midnight Show, the country's main pop
radio program. Bono fiddles around with
an acoustic guitar while the interviewer announces
that Bono will perform a new song live on the air. Bono says, "I
wanna send this song to Willie Nelson.
I think he's a great singer, and I want to write a great
song for him. It's just been written recently,
so I thought it might be nice to play
it for people." After the read show, Bono is diagnosed with laryngitis
and is forced to take a week off of performing. |
Bono later performed the song acoustically
with Willie Nelson for a PBS televeision special. A brief clip of
that perfomance is now included here. |
Slow Dancing
My love is cruel as the night
she steals the sun and shuts out the light
all of my colors, they turn to blue
win or lose
She does it slow dancing
all night long
Scarlet eyes and a see-through heart
she saw me coming right from the start
she picked me up, but had me down on my knees
just a-begging her, begging her please
Take me slow dancing
she took me slow dancing
all night long
And I don't know why a man
searches for himself in his lover's eyes
no, i don't know why a man
sees the truth but believes the lies
My love is restless as the wind
she moves like a shadow across my skin
she left with my conscience -- don't want it
back
it just gets in the way
If you wanna go slow dancing
she took me slow dancing
all night long
