Until The End Of The World

This song is a conversation between Judas and Jesus in a biblical setting. Judas describes his betrayal: I took the money I spiked your drink... I kissed your lips and broke your heart The Edge plays some sinister guitar to accompany Bono's lyrics.

Bono got the idea for the title after the director Wim Wenders showed him an early cut of his film Until The End Of The World. Bono was a big fan of Wenders' work, particularly the movie Wings Of Desire. After the song appeared on U2's Achtung Baby album, U2 made a new version that was used in the movie and appears on the soundtrack. It's the only song in the movie that wasn't written specifically for the film. In 1993, U2 contributed the title track to another Wenders film: Faraway, So Close!

Bono woke up at his father-in-law's house with the idea of a conversation between Jesus and Judas already in his head. Coincidentally, the Irish poet Brendan Kennelly was also writing a book of poems about the betrayal of Jesus called Book of Judas. "It was an epic coincidence, because I was given the poems to review after the album was finished," Bono recalled in the book U2 by U2. "The whole Zoo TV tour that followed owes much to one of Brendan Kennelly's great lines: 'the best way to serve the age is to betray it.' That became our theme for the next couple of years, to do everything U2 weren't supposed to."