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"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
Single by U2
from the album All That You Can't Leave Behind
Released	January 29, 2001 February 12, 2001 March 27, 2001 October 30, 2001
Format	CD, cassette
Recorded	HQ, Windmill Lane Studios, Westland Studios and Totally Wired in Dublin, and South of France
Genre	Rock
Length	4:32
Label	Island / Interscope
Producer(s)	Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno
Chart positions
#3 (Australia) #2 (UK Singles Chart) #1 (Irish Singles Chart) #52 (US Hot 100) #35 (US Modern Rock Tracks) #35 (US Mainstream Rock Tracks) #1 (Canadian Singles Chart) #1 (Latvia)
U2 singles chronology
"Beautiful Day" (2000)	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (2001)	"Elevation" (2001)
All That You Can't Leave Behind track listing
"Beautiful Day" (1)	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (2)	"Elevation" (3)
The Best of 1990-2000 track listing
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (7)	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (8)	"Gone" (9)
U218 Singles track listing
"Mysterious Ways" (7)	Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (8)	"Where the Streets Have No Name" (9)

"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" is a single release from U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. It has gospel-tinged melodies and saccharine guitar leads. It won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 2002.

Contents 1 History and lyrics 2 Track listings 2.1 Version 1 2.2 Version 2 2.3 Version 3 2.4 Version 4 2.5 Version 5 3 B-sides 3.1 Big Girls are Best 3.2 Beautiful Day (Quincey and Sonance Mix) 3.3 Beautiful Day and New York (Live from Farmclub.com) 3.4 All I Want Is You and Even Better Than the Real Thing (Live from Manray) 3.5 Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (Live from Toronto) 3.6 Elevation (Vandit Club Remix) 4 Alternate versions 5 Videos 6 See also 7 Chart positions 8 External links

U2's lead singer Bono wrote the song about the suicide of his close friend Michael Hutchence, the late lead singer of the band INXS. The song is written in the form of an argument about suicide in which Bono tries to convince Hutchence of the act's foolishness. [1]

Bono characterized the song as a fight between friends, which he felt guilty for never having with Hutchence. "It's a row between mates. You're kinda trying to wake them up out of an idea. In my case it's a row I didn't have while he was alive. I feel the biggest respect I could pay to him was not to write some stupid soppy fucking song, so I wrote a really tough, nasty little number, slapping him around the head. And I'm sorry, but that's how it came out of me." --Bono, in Rolling Stone (November 3, 2005 issue).

A sample of lyrics from the song:

You've got to get yourself together

You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better

Now you're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
2. "Big Girls are Best" (3:37)
3. "Beautiful Day" (Quincey and Sonance Mix) (7:55)

The Australian edition included "Beautiful Day" (The Perfecto Mix).

1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
2. "Beautiful Day" (Live from Farmclub.com) (4:48)
3. "New York" (Live from Farmclub.com) (6:01)

The Australian edition included "Beautiful Day" (David Holmes Remix).

1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
2. "Big Girls Are Best" (3:37)
3. "All I Want Is You" (Live from Manray) (5:26)
4. "Even Better Than the Real Thing" (Live from Manray) (3:55)

Only availbale in France.

1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Album Version) (4:33)
2. "Beautiful Day" (Live from Farmclub.com) (4:48)
3. "New York" (Live from Farmclub.com) (6:01)
4. "Big Girls Are Best" (3:37)
5. "Beautiful Day" (Quincey and Sonance Mix) (7:55)

Released only in Japan, featuring most B-sides from both regular CD releases.

1. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Radio Edit) (3:42)
2. "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Acoustic) (3:42)
3. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (Live from Toronto) (5:39)
4. "Elevation" (Vandit Club Remix) (8:54)

A Canada-only release on late October 2001, also available on CD.

The "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" singles were backed with the following B-sides:

Produced by Flood and Howie B, this song was recorded after the PopMart Tour. Its lyrics include a reference to the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ("Avenue Atantico, 1702/She's coco butter, baby she's the glue"), where U2 stayed when they played in Rio in 1998.

This remix was released, in a shorter version, in a promotional CD along with an issue of Q magazine.

This was a performance in October 27, 2000 for the American TV show, during U2's promotional tour of the All That You Can't Leave Behind album.

The first public listening of All That You Can't Leave Behind in the famous Paris nightclub was capped with an impromptu performance by U2, the first since the end of the PopMart Tour. These two songs were lifted from that performance.

This performance from the Elevation Tour was transmitted live for the We Know Where You Live, Live! TV special, which was later released in DVD.

This remix was done by Paul Van Dyk.

There are three versions of this song:

• The album version, which appears on All That You Can't Leave Behind. This is the original version of the song.
• The acoustic version, which appears on the single, as well as in the "Walk On" single and the 7 EP. The same vocal track is used with a different, stripped-down arrangement.
• The radio edit, which was used in the promotional radio singles in the US. Part of the first verse and the outro are edited out, leaving the song with about three and a half minutes.

Two music videos were filmed for the song.

The most well-known features an American football game between the "Flys" [sic] and the "Lemons", and contains various inside jokes and references to the band's past, such as the team names themselves, which were the titles of two U2 singles released in the 90's. The rookie kicker for the Flys, Paul Hewson, played by Brendan Fehr, tries to kick a field goal, but misses when it hit the post. The video shows it over and over again from different perspectives. During the video, a Mexican wave starts with Bono in the centre. In this scene, the director gave Bono's motivation as "appear more messianic" - possibly a reference to the light in which his fans see him and his deep-seated religious beliefs.

The other video shows Bono being thrown out of a van several times, as if "stuck in a moment". At the end of the video, the rest of the band helps him up.

• All That You Can't Leave Behind
• Michael Hutchence
• List of songs about suicide
• Elevation Tour
• U2 discography

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	Australian Singles Chart	#3
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	UK Singles Chart	#2
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	Irish Singles Chart	#1
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	US Billboard Hot 100	#52
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	US Modern Rock Tracks	#35
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	US Mainstream Rock Tracks	#35
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	US Adult Top 40	#9
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	US Top 40 Mainstream	#27
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	US Top 40 Tracks	#27
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	Canadian Singles Chart	#1
2001	"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"	Latvia	#1

• Discography entry at U2 Wanderer--Comprehensive details on various editions, cover scans, lyrics, and more.
• Videography entry at U2tours.de--Has some screen captures of the US video. Written in German.