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All That You Can't Leave Behind Album Listing
"Beautiful Day"
(Track 1) 		"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
(Track 2) 		"Elevation"
(Track 3)
The Best of 1990-2000 Album Listing
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"
(Track 7) 		"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
(Track 8) 		"Gone"
(Track 9)

"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" is a song which appears on U2's 2000 album All That You Can't Leave Behind (see 2000 in music).

Contents

Lyrics

U2's lead singer Bono wrote the song about the suicide of his friend Michael Hutchence, the late lead singer of the band INXS. The song is written in the form of an argument about suicide in which Bono tries to convince Hutchence of the act's foolishness.

Bono characterized the song as a fight between friends, which he felt guilty for never having with Hutchence. "It's a row between mates. You're kinda trying to wake them up out of an idea. In my case it's a row I didn't have while he was alive. I feel the biggest respect I could pay to him was not to write some stupid soppy fucking song, so I wrote a really tough, nasty little number, slapping him around the head. And I'm sorry, but that's how it came out of me." --Bono, in Rolling Stone

A sample of lyrics from the song:

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

Track listings

Version 1

  1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
  2. "Big Girls are Best" (3:37)
  3. "Beautiful Day" (Quincey and Sonance Mix) (7:55)
This was the first CD version. The Australian edition included "Beautiful Day" (The Perfecto Mix).

Version 2

  1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
  2. "Beautiful Day" (Live from Farmclub.com) (4:48)
  3. "New York" (Live from Farmclub.com) (6:01)
This was the second CD version. The Australian edition included "Beautiful Day" (David Holmes Remix).

Version 3

  1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
  2. "Big Girls are Best" (3:37)
  3. "All I Want Is You" (Live from Manray) (5:26)
  4. "Even Better Than the Real Thing" (Live from Manray) (3:55)
This CD release was available only in France.

Version 4

  1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
  2. "Beautiful Day" (Live from Farmclub.com) (4:48)
  3. "New York" (Live from Farmclub.com) (6:01)
  4. "Big Girls are Best" (3:37)
  5. "Beautiful Day" (Quincey and Sonance Mix) (7:55)
This version was released only in Japan, featuring most B-sides from both regular CD releases.

Version 5

  1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Radio Edit) (3:42)
  2. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Acoustic) (3:42)
  3. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (Live from Toronto) (5:39)
  4. "Elevation" (Vandit Club Remix) (8:54)
This was a Canadian only release on late October 2001, also available on CD.

Videos

Two music videos were filmed for the song.

The most well known features an American football game between the Flys [sic] and the Lemons, and contains various inside jokes and references to the band's past (including the team names themselves). The rookie kicker for the Flys, Paul Hewson (Bono's real name), tries to kick a field goal, but misses when it hit the post. The video shows it over and over again from different perspectives.

The other video shows Bono being thrown out of a van, twice (for each verse), as if "stuck in a moment". At the end of the video, the rest of the band helps him up.

See also

List of songs about suicide

Chart positions

Year Single Chart Position
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" UK Singles Chart #2
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" Irish Singles Chart #1
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" US Billboard Hot 100 #52
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" US Modern Rock Tracks #35
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" US Mainstream Rock Tracks #35
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" US Adult Top 40 #9
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" US Top 40 Mainstream #27
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" US Top 40 Tracks #27
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" Canadian Singles Chart #1
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" Latvia #1

 

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