“Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out of” is based on a fictional conversation between two friends about suicide… and it is influenced by a real-life event.
INXS’s lead singer Michael Hutchence took his own life on November 22, 1997. U2’s lead singer Bono was a close friend of his.
Bono wrote the s...
[Verse 1]
I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company
[Pre-Chorus]
I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you (Oh)
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere, baby
[Chorus]
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
[Verse 2]
I will not forsake
The colours that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see
[Pre-Chorus]
And you are such a fool
To worry like you do (Oh, oh)
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my
[Chorus]
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Oh love, look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
[Bridge]
I was unconscious, half-asleep
The water is warm till you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all
[Chorus]
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
[Outro]
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass
Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of was written by Bono & The Edge (Guitarist) & Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Jr..
Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of was produced by Daniel Lanois & Brian Eno.
U2 released Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of on Mon Oct 30 2000.
Bono said this in a 2000 interview with Rolling Stone:
I think other people who have lost a mate to suicide will all tell you the same thing – just the overpowering guilt that you weren’t there for that person. As anyone around here will tell you, friendship is a thing that I hold very sacred. [His...