The audience, again at Bono's invitation, sang the choruses --
" I'm more than you know ...
A body in a soul
You don't see me but you will
I am not invisible
I am here ..
There is no them ...
There's only us ...
There is no them
There's only you
And there's only me ... There is no them"
It's impossible to predict what the lasting impact of the concert will be, what historical residue will remain twenty-five years from now; but, for me, it provided a potent jump-start to counteract the hatred and the fear that the Paris attack left in its wake and issued an unmistakable invitation to us all to commit to the work that now must be undertaken.
For the finale, U2 invited Eagles of Death Metal, the band playing at the Bataclan theater when it was attacked by the ISIL terrorists and eighty-nine concert goers were killed, to join them on stage to sing Patti Smith's anthem and stirring marching song, fit for a movement, "People Have the Power" (1988) --
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