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Filmed on mobile phone at U2's concert in Barcelona's Nou Camp stadium on Thursday:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR8d1qM-GqE[/youtube]

Comments

[Holdemm]

Hey, can you tell me what the words were or what poem that is?

[Scott Lucas]

Holdemm,

The song is "Sunday, Bloody Sunday". Video with lyrics at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZLPV6xcHI.

S.

[reza]

بشنو بشنو بشنو(listen listen listen )
in continue poem from RUMI in persian language about peoples & their reflections.
long live freedom

[yasi]

the poem is called 'the lament of the reed flute' by the persian poet rumi.

[Scott Lucas]

Yasi,

Thank you very much for this.

S.

[iran-resistance]

U2, many thanks for dedicating a song in your concert to Iran. It means a lot to us Iranians to know that those in the West with a moral compass are on our side: the green freedom movement.

We may be out of the news right now but there are demonstrations inside Iran and outside Iran in front of Iranian embassies every night. Iranian students across the country will be demonstrating this Thursday: expect fireworks!

[gregg chadwick]

I have posted the entire poem by Rumi on my blog at:
http://greggchadwick.blogspot.com/2009/07/u2-scrolls-rumi-poem-in-barcelona.html

In his poem, The Song of the Reed, Rumi reflects on the human spirit through the metaphor of the ancient reed flute or ney that is popular in Middle Eastern music.

[u2360]

In addition to the poem U2 also choose a song by an Iranian-born singer, Sussan Deyhim, as the intro for Sunday Bloody Sunday. The song's called Beshno Az Ney/Windfall.

The piece is beautiful in full - you can check it out here:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=279277439&s=143441