Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
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| "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" | ||
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| Single by U2 | ||
| from the album Zooropa | ||
| Released | November 22 / 23, 1993 | |
| Format | CD single, cassette, Vinyl (7") | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 4:58 | |
| Label | Island | |
| Producer(s) | Flood, Brian Eno and The Edge | |
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| U2 singles chronology | ||
| Lemon (1993) |
Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (1993) |
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (1995) |
| Alternate cover - Live Format | ||
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| Zooropa track listing | ||
| "Lemon" (4) |
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (5) |
"Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car" (6) |
| The Best of 1990-2000 track listing | ||
| "Miss Sarajevo" (6) |
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (7) |
"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (8) |
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" is the fifth track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa, and was released as the album's third single.
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[edit] History
The song was inspired by Frank Sinatra's music - its working title while still in development was actually "Sinatra". The single's B-side featured the song "I've Got You Under My Skin", as a duet between Bono and Sinatra, which was originally released on Sinatra's Duets album.
This song, in version with heavier guitar and drums, was released on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Faraway, So Close!, along with an extended version of "The Wanderer". In a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Bono cited "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" as one of his personal favorite U2 songs and perhaps their most underrated.
The music video for the song, directed by Wenders, features the Statue of Victoria, the golden monument that sits atop the Berlin Victory Column, and is heavily based on the film from which it takes its name as it includes images taken directly from the film (some just recreated) and shows angels falling to Earth.
[edit] Track Listing
[edit] Version 1
- "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (4:58)
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (3:32)
CD and cassette release.
[edit] Version 2
- "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (4:58)
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (3:32)
- "Lemon" (Bad Yard Club Edit) (5:19)
- "Lemon" (The Perfecto Mix) (8:57)
Labeled "The Swing Format", this was the first CD version.
[edit] Version 3
- "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (4:58)
- "Slow Dancing" (3:20)
- "Bullet the Blue Sky" (Live from Dublin, August 28, 1993) (5:32)
- "Love is Blindness" (Live from New York, August 30, 1992) (5:58)
Labeled "The Live Format", this was the second CD release.
[edit] Version 4
- "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (4:58)
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (3:32)
- "Slow Dancing" (3:20)
- "Bullet the Blue Sky" (Live from Dublin, August 28, 1993) (5:32)
- "Love is Blindness" (Live from New York, August 30, 1992) (5:58)
- "Lemon" (Bad Yard Club Edit) (5:19)
American CD release.
[edit] Version 5
Version on Craig Armstrong's As If to Nothing (2002) Release
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (6:02), Track #11
American CD release.
[edit] Chart positions
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1993 | "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" | Australian Singles Chart | #5 |
| 1993 | "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" | UK Singles Chart | #4 |
| 1993 | "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" | US Billboard Hot 100 | #61 |
| 1993 | "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" | US Modern Rock Tracks | #15 |
| 1993 | "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" | US Mainstream Rock Tracks | #12 |
