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• Beau from Phoenix, AzActually, Bono revealed in "U2 By U2" that the note was left by Gavin Friday.
• Steven from Regina, SkCome on man, this song was NOT written in '87, it was a single released in 1980!! It also had nothing to do with clubs or gavin friday. The band was supposed to meet for practice in thier jam space where everyone showed up but Bono, the rest left and when Bono finally showed, a not had been posted by Larry on the jamspace door regarding him being late, "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" . .they were supposed to jam at 11 that day!
• Cristián from Santiago, ChileI guess it's been a long time since anyone could've posted a comment. Well, my tip is that this song was previously known as "Silver Lining", with different lyrics, as you may find out at http://www.u2-vertigo-tour.com/song250.html. It's from 1979.
  
  Cristián, Santiago de Chile.
• Rudi from Uk, EnglandThis is actually about the crowd at a Cramps concert Bono went to in London. They were all turfed out at 11pm ("I hear the children crying ... and I know it's time to go") It was the sight of all these young punk kids spilling out onto the streets at 11pm. B
• Ryan from Windsor, CanadaRichard, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, theres no way this song was about the 1987 bombings. Considering Bono was preforming this song in 1983 it would mean he's either psychic or was involved.
• Richard from Newport, Isle Of Wight, EnglandThe title of this song, and the line "I hear the children crying", suggest that it is about the 1987 bombing by the IRA of a Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen in the United Kingdom, which killed 11 innocent civilians. It is not about this, of course, as it was released seven years earlier! As a side note, the bombing is mentioned in the film Rattle and Hum: the night of the bombing, the band were playing a gig -during Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bono angrily denounced the IRA's act of mass murder that day, describing it as "leaving people dead and dying under the rubble of a revolution that most of the people in my country don't want."
• Chris from Kingston, OtherNot really true that the only place to find it would be on the Under a Blood Red Sky album - it was released as a single in the UK back in 1980. The flip side of the single included another good but not often heard song "Touch"

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