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"Please" is the eleventh song from U2's 1997 album, Pop. It was released as the album's fourth single on 20 October 1997.

As with "Sunday Bloody Sunday", the song is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The single cover for this song features the pictures of four Northern Irish politicians — Gerry Adams, David Trimble, Ian Paisley, and John Hume (clockwise from top left). Two months before the release of the single, live versions of "Please" and three other songs from the PopMart Tour were released on the Please: PopHeart Live EP in September 1997.

The "Please" music video is a black-and-white concept piece by Anton Corbijn. It takes place on a street called "No Name" (a reference to the song "Where the Streets Have No Name") where a beggar is standing, with a sign saying "please" hanging from his neck. Several people pass by on their knees, until a point where this situation is reversed. The band actually does not show up for much of the video, finally making an appearance during The Edge's guitar solo. This video appears on the DVD for The Best of 1990-2000, along with the director's commentary.

Two live videos from the PopMart Tour have been released as well — one video from the PopMart: Live from Mexico City release, and one known as the "Mural Mix," (filmed in Helsinki on 9 August 1997), which was released on "The History Mix" bonus disc from The Best of 1990-2000 & B-Sides.

Lyrics:
So you never knew love... until you crossed the line of grace
And you never felt wanted... 'til you'd someone slap your face
So you never felt alive... until you'd 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...

(One, two, three, four)

So you never knew... how low you'd stoop to make that call
And you never knew... what was on the ground until they made 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 boot of your car

Please... please... please...
Get up off your knees
Please-yeah... please... please...
Leave me out of this place

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

September, streets capsizing
Spilling over down the drains
Shards of glass, splinters like rain
But you could only feel your own pain

October, talk getting nowhere
November... December... remember
We just start it again

Please... please... please...
Get up off your knee there
Please... please... please...
Please...

So love is big, is bigger than us
But love is not what you're thinking of

It's what lovers deal
It's what lovers feel
You know I've found it hard to receive

Cause you my love I could never believe.

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  • @Yeshuashai1 Zen in the end of love rules as 19 in 74,30 or blod clot in 96:2 at the age of 9?

  • When the string section comes in around 3:40, you can hear a legendary 5-note descending riff popularized on songs like "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "25 or 6 to 4."

  • This videos's all about bozo the clown

  • @mariu2anne the big joke is, all these so called humanitarian organizations dont do crap if they don't share Jesus with people, people can die on a full stomach and go to hell, you're supposed to teach a man to fish, not just give him a fish, i've emailed child org, worldvision, all these places and they didnt say shit, so basically theyre feeding clothing helping these people but not telling them about Jesus, same as putting a band aid over cancer, without Jesus, its all a big waste

  • @KLMNOQPiPan i didnt know anyone had started...........

  • @remcosilvio "Thinking is not illegal yet." Al'bert Ein(K = 19. a m En?)?

  • Gautama Gotama promise something. ''Om tat = thief sat = ura = clock = sat"? 96:2 and 9 = 1 = 6? 16 = Bee? Please kill your own ego first and seat under the tree for 7 weeks,... please gaya3 mantra Bono;=)

  • yes.

  • Is this an Anton Corbjin production? Looks like a Depeche Mode video

  • The best song free joint Snario

    

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