The mini-album consists of five songs and a poem. The band describes it as “an immediate response to current events, inspired by the many extraordinary and courageous people fighting on the front lines for freedom.”
Bono says: “These songs were eager to get out into the world. They are songs of defiance and dismay, of lament.”
Track List
The collection opens with “American Obituary,” a tribute to Renée Macklin Good, the 37-year-old American citizen and mother of three, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis in January.
U2, Ed Sheeran, and Ukrainian soldier-turned-singer Tara Topolia collaborate on “Yours Eternally,” inspired by Bono and Edge’s trip to Kyev in the spring of 2022 to play at a train station at the invitation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, where they met and befriended Tara Topolia. The song is written in the form of a letter from a soldier on the front lines.
The acoustic ballad “The Tears of Things” imagines a conversation between Michelangelo’s David and his creator, in which the young man, with his slingshot full of stones, objects to the idea that he must “become Goliath to defeat him.”
This is followed by “Song of the Future,” which pays tribute to 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh, one of the thousands of Iranian students who joined the national protest movement “Woman, Life, Freedom,” denouncing the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, who died in Tehran in 2022 from injuries sustained after her arrest by the “morality police.”
The piece “Wildpeace” is a poem by Israeli author and poet Yehuda Amichai, read by Nigerian artist Adeola.
Finally, there’s “One Life at a Time,” a melancholic song written in honor of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian father of three. The nonviolent activist and teacher was killed in his West Bank village by an Israeli settler in July 2025, amidst the devastating war between Israel and Gaza.
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