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"Seconds" is the second track on U2's 1983 album, War. The track, with its recurring lyric of "it takes a second to say goodbye", refers to nuclear proliferation. It is the first song in the band's history not sung solely by Bono, as the Edge sings the first two stanzas. There is a break of approximately 11 seconds in the song at 2:10 featuring a sample of a 1981 documentary film titled Soldier Girls. Bono said that he was watching this documentary while he was waiting in the green room in Windmill Lane Studios and he recorded it. The band felt it would fit well into the song as unsettling evidence of soldiers training for an atomic bomb explosion. Writing and inspiration During his writer's block period in 1982, Bono felt it was lonely writing lyrics, so he asked the Edge to assist in writing, but the guitarist wasn't interested in such a goal. The Edge finally wrote the line "It takes a second to say goodbye". Bono wrote the remainder of the lyrics. On the recording, the Edge sings the first verse of the song. Lyrics in the song about dancing to the atomic bomb is a reference to "Drop the Bomb," a song by Go-go group Trouble Funk, who were U2's labelmates on Island Records.

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Notable quotes

“Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (said by Ford Prefect)
“If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”
— John Donne, Book of Devotions, Meditation 14 (1624)
“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”
— John Leonard, Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979), "Dash" (p. 146)
“All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.”
— Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (2006), p. 622
“The idea that time may be an active factor in causation has the mathematical significance that ' t ' (for the system in question) must appear explicitly in the formulation of the law. ...Such law may claim to express the fact of historic, irreversible duration.”
— Lancelot Law Whyte, Archimedes or the Future of Physics (1927)
“Delivered from the galling yoke of time.”
— William Wordsworth, Laodamia

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (said by Ford Prefect)
“If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”
— John Donne, Book of Devotions, Meditation 14 (1624)
“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”
— John Leonard, Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979), "Dash" (p. 146)
“All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.”
— Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (2006), p. 622
“The idea that time may be an active factor in causation has the mathematical significance that ' t ' (for the system in question) must appear explicitly in the formulation of the law. ...Such law may claim to express the fact of historic, irreversible duration.”
— Lancelot Law Whyte, Archimedes or the Future of Physics (1927)
“Delivered from the galling yoke of time.”
— William Wordsworth, Laodamia

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

"Seconds" is the second track on U2's 1983 album, War. The track, with its recurring lyric of "it takes a second to say goodbye", refers to nuclear proliferation. It is the first song in the band's history not sung solely by Bono, as the Edge sings the first two stanzas.

Overview

"Seconds" is the second track on U2's 1983 album, War. The track, with its recurring lyric of "it takes a second to say goodbye", refers to nuclear proliferation. It is the first song in the band's history not sung solely by Bono, as the Edge sings the first two stanzas. There is a break of approximately 11 seconds in the song at 2:10 featuring a sample of a 1981 documentary film titled Soldier Girls. Bono said that he was watching this documentary while he was waiting in the green room in Windmill Lane Studios and he recorded it. The band felt it would fit well into the song as unsettling evidence of soldiers training for an atomic bomb explosion. Writing and inspiration During his writer's block period in 1982, Bono felt it was lonely writing lyrics, so he asked the Edge to assist in writing, but the guitarist wasn't interested in such a goal. The Edge finally wrote the line "It takes a second to say goodbye". Bono wrote the remainder of the lyrics. On the recording, the Edge sings the first verse of the song. Lyrics in the song about dancing to the atomic bomb is a reference to "Drop the Bomb," a song by Go-go group Trouble Funk, who were U2's labelmates on Island Records.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Seconds: 1966 film by John Frankenheimer · album by Kate Rogers · 2000 album by The Dogs D'Amour · live album by Tim Berne

Seconds across IJR

In the Arcade

Jetpack PenguinHold to thrust. Release to fall. Do not melt the jetpack.Savanna StampedeLead the herd past crocs, lions, and the stampede.

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