Your Song Saved My Life
by U2

Album: Sing 2 (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Your Song Saved My Life" finds U2 frontman Bono honoring the cathartic nature of music and its healing power.

    You know your song saved my life
    I don't sing it just so I can get by
    Won't you hear me when I tell you darlin'
    I sing it to survive


    The Irish band recorded the soaring ballad for the soundtrack of the animated film Sing 2. The song appears in the closing credits of the movie.
  • Sing 2 sees Bono making his animated screen debut as the voice of rock star lion Clay Calloway. Writer/director Garth Jennings told EW the U2 frontman came on board after a long conversation about the "nature of singing and how 'some people sing for a living and some people sing to survive.'"

    Jennings noted the singer "channeled his feline side" to pen the song for his Clay character. "It's just full of so much emotion and heart and literally did exactly what he said in that first phone call," he said. "It just says, 'Okay, here's how we want your audience to feel as they leave the cinema.'"
  • Released on November 3, 2021 as a single, U2 set up a profile on TikTok to promote the piano-and-strings-driven song. The Irish rockers also made their hit discography available on the social media site.
  • The four U2 band members - Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, and Adam Clayton - wrote the song. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Songs Of Experience producer Jacknife Lee helmed the track with Dutch DJ/producer Martin Garrix and Declan Gaffney.
  • U2 have contributed to several other movie soundtracks over the years. They've twice won Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song:

    2003, "The Hands That Built America" (Gangs of New York)

    2014, "Ordinary Love" (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom)

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