God Part II

"God Part II"
Song by U2
from the album Rattle and Hum
Released	10 October 1988
Studio	Ocean Way
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:15
Label	Island
Composer(s)	U2
Lyricist(s)	Bono
Producer(s)	Jimmy Iovine

"God Part II" is a song by rock band U2, and the 14th track from their 1988 album Rattle and Hum.

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It was written as an answer song to John Lennon's "God", having the same kind of lyrical structure. It also contains an attack on American biographer Albert Goldman, on the following verses, by way of Lennon's song "Instant Karma!":

I don't believe in Goldman

His type like a curse

Instant Karma's gonna get him

If I don't get him first

Additionally, the song alludes to Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers in a Dangerous Time", in the lyric "Heard a singer on the radio late last night/He says he's gonna kick the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight."

The song is a departure from the folksy-roots rock sound of the album's other studio recordings and is an introduction to the darker sound the band would adopt following the release of their next album, Achtung Baby.^[1]

A remix entitled the 'Hard Metal Dance Mix' was released on the "When Love Comes to Town" single.

Live performance history

"God Part II" was only played on the Lovetown Tour in late 1989 and early 1990. It was played at 36 of the 47 concerts; it debuted at the first show of the tour on 21 September 1989 in Perth and was last performed at the second-last show of the tour on 9 January 1990 in Rotterdam. It was one of six songs to be used as concert openers on the tour, opening two concerts: 26 December 1989 in Dublin and 5 January 1990 in Rotterdam. For these two performances, its heavy bassline was linked to a recording of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil".^[2]

A performance from a Dublin show later saw light on the release Live from the Point Depot.

After the Lovetown Tour, its sole live appearance was as a brief lyrical snippet by Bono at the end of "With or Without You" on 23 April 1992 in Vancouver.^[3]

References

^ McCormick (2006), p. 207^{[incomplete short citation]}
^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, God Part II performance history, accessed 25 September 2007.
^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, Setlist for 23 April 1992, Vancouver, accessed 25 September 2007.

v t e Rattle and Hum track listing
Album	"Helter Skelter" "Van Diemen's Land" "Desire" "Hawkmoon 269" "All Along the Watchtower" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "Freedom for My People" "Silver and Gold" "Pride (In the Name of Love)" "Angel of Harlem" "Love Rescue Me" "When Love Comes to Town" "Heartland" "God Part II" "The Star Spangled Banner" "Bullet the Blue Sky" "All I Want Is You"
Film	"Helter Skelter" "Van Diemen's Land" "Desire" "Exit" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "Freedom for My People" "Silver and Gold" "Angel of Harlem" "All Along the Watchtower" "In God's Country" "When Love Comes to Town" "Heartland" "Bad" "Where the Streets Have No Name" "MLK" "With or Without You" "The Star-Spangled Banner" "Bullet the Blue Sky" "Running to Stand Still" "Sunday Bloody Sunday" "Pride (In the Name of Love)" "All I Want Is You"
The Joshua Tree Achtung Baby

v t e U2 songs
Discography Covers
1970s	"Out of Control"
1980s	"Another Day" "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" "A Day Without Me" "I Will Follow" "Fire" "Gloria" "A Celebration" "I Will Follow" "New Year's Day" "Two Hearts Beat as One" "Sunday Bloody Sunday" "Pride (In the Name of Love)" "The Unforgettable Fire" "With or Without You" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "Where the Streets Have No Name" "In God's Country" "One Tree Hill" "Desire" "Angel of Harlem" "When Love Comes to Town" "All I Want Is You" "An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart" "The Electric Co." "October" "Seconds" "Red Light" "A Sort of Homecoming" "4th of July" "Bad" "Elvis Presley and America" "MLK" "Bullet the Blue Sky" "Running to Stand Still" "Red Hill Mining Town" "Trip Through Your Wires" "Exit" "Mothers of the Disappeared" "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" "Hawkmoon 269" "Heartland" "God Part II" "Night and Day"
1990s	"The Fly" "Mysterious Ways" "One" "Even Better Than the Real Thing" "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" "Numb" "Lemon" "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" "Miss Sarajevo" (ft. Luciano Pavarotti) "Discothèque" "Staring at the Sun" "Last Night on Earth" "Please" "If God Will Send His Angels" "Mofo" "Sweetest Thing" "Zoo Station" "Until the End of the World" "So Cruel" "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World" "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" "Acrobat" "Love Is Blindness" "Zooropa" "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" "Dirty Day" "The Wanderer" "Slug" "Your Blue Room" "Gone"
2000s	"Beautiful Day" "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" "Elevation" "Walk On" "Electrical Storm" "Take Me to the Clouds Above" "Vertigo" "All Because of You" "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" "City of Blinding Lights" "The Saints Are Coming" (ft. Green Day) "Window in the Skies" "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" "Get On Your Boots" "Magnificent" "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" "Kite" "In a Little While" "Wild Honey" "Peace on Earth" "When I Look at the World" "New York" "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" "The Hands That Built America" "Miracle Drug" "A Man and a Woman" "One Step Closer" "Original of the Species" "Yahweh" "Instant Karma!" "No Line on the Horizon" "Moment of Surrender" "Unknown Caller" "Stand Up Comedy" "Fez – Being Born" "White as Snow" "Breathe" "Cedars of Lebanon" "Winter"
2010s	"Ordinary Love" "Invisible" "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)" "Every Breaking Wave" "Song for Someone" "You're the Best Thing About Me" "Get Out of Your Own Way" "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way" "XXX"
2020s	"Your Song Saved My Life" "Atomic City"
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