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O Canada

Bono / U2 / Neil Barnes / U2TOURFANS

Toronto Canada was greeting to a celebration with U2's 22 songs set list that included tributes to Leonard Cohen, 150th anniversary of Canada and Pride Toronto weekend. A change in lyrics with“Bullet The Blue Sky” ended with “They run into the arms of North America.” Instead, Bono celebrated Canada’s openness: “Oh Canada, when others build walls, you open doors! When others divide into tribes, you make a beautiful mosaic.”

Bono dedicated “One Tree Hill” to Leonard Cohen. Bono recollected being at Cohen’s 79th birthday party. He asked Cohen how he’d celebrate his 80th, and Cohen told Bono he’d like to have one cigarette. Earlier in the set, Bono sang Cohen’s “Suzanne” during “Bad,” ending with a flurry of “Hallelujah’s.”

Setlist:

  1.     Sunday Bloody Sunday
  2.     New Year's Day
  3.     Bad / Suzanne (snippet) / Hallelujah (snippet)
  4.     Pride (In The Name Of Love)
  5.     Where The Streets Have No Name
  6.     I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  7.     With Or Without You
  8.     Bullet The Blue Sky / Black Dog (snippet) / America (West Side Story) (snippet)
  9.     Running To Stand Still
  10.     Red Hill Mining Town
  11.     In God's Country
  12.     Trip Through Your Wires
  13.     One Tree Hill
  14.     Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
  15.     Mothers Of The Disappeared

    Encore(s):

  1.     Miss Sarajevo
  2.     Beautiful Day / O Canada (snippet)
  3.     Elevation
  4.     Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet)
  5.     Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
  6.     One / Hear Us Coming (snippet)
  7.     I Will Follow

*Snippets provided by U2gigs