Stay...

Date: September 24, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Location: NY Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ

Event: U2 360 Tour

U2 lived up to their reputation - a BRILLIANT live performance for a band that has been successfully around as long as I have been alive and the audience of 85,000+ was testament to that fact. Having been a fan of theirs since my uncle passed me their Joshua Tree album when I was around 10 years of age, this was a lifetime dream come true. As with every tour, they played songs still unfamiliar from their new album and slowly slid into familiar song after familiar song. The crowd was on their feet, arms in the air or around a loved one, and their voices sung line after line in chorus. If anything, this must be the religious experience that BONO often refers to when he talks about performing to a large audience - to have everyone, in a single moment, be in harmony and sound like ONE.

Yet, if I had to choose without a doubt what song I would take from that night... it would be this one:

[Pardon Me, I did not record it myself nor could I find one that was actually performed the night of the concert I attended but this is rather close...]

If I could stay - then the night would give you up
Stay - then the day would keep its trust
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay, and the night would be enough