"You Can't Give Your Heart Away" (2001)
Demo Song
Background Information
“You Can’t Give Your Heart Away” was first mentioned in 2001 in development for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, and as of yet, has not appeared on any release. It may have become another song.
Bono first mentioned this song in the January 2002 issue of SPIN, released on December 3, 2001:
I just started writing two days ago. I went to Bali for six days. I really haven’t had time to grieve for my father, who died a few weeks back, so I went to this place, and I was just really moved by these very religious people who give offerings, like, every hour of the day. Their whole life is a sort of ceremony, and they seem happy to see you because I think they know that they’re teaching you. So I just started writing down five or six songs, mostly lyrics. I worked on a song about my dad that Noel Gallagher and I had started, called “One Step Closer to Knowing,” and I think that’s going to be very special. Another one is called “Electrical Storm,” and another is called “You Can’t Give Your Heart Away,” and there’s this thing called “A Man’s a Man,” for a movie called Gangs of New York, which Martin Scorsese is directing.