Wich year was this song recorded?

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Woman (Sick For Love) is part of the Achtung Baby demos that were bootlegged. Thus, it would've been recorded late 1990/early 1991.

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Hi The_Edge89, I just saw your video and thanks very much for sharing it. Wonderful stuff! I can’t wait to watch it again! Do you have a larger file for it?

In the past, I had spliced the first 2 together. It kind of reminds me of Elvis Presley & America (which I happen to enjoy). A type of song that you can crawl into and get lost in. One can picture a man late at night with a glass of half full of whiskey and a bottle nearly empty. Lights a cigarette and then recognizes an already lit one in the ashtray. Overwhelmed in a tumultuous and torturous relationship. Rambling and mumbling to himself. Maybe realizing that the marriage is beyond repair.

I’ve been a long time fan of Woman from the 2 versions on the 3 CD Salome set. I hear some different lyrics in your video. I assume that they are from one of the 4 new versions from the 7 CD set?

Is your track of Woman one single version or an edit of few different versions?

Have you transcribed these new lyrics?

The save file link you posted has only drum tracks. Can you post a link to the 4 new versions of Woman?

I found this info on the net.

Disc 3:
02. Back Mask U2 {D3 T02} [3:06]
12. Back Mask U2 {D2 T10} [5:31]

Disc 4: (All New)
01. Back Mask U2 (Drums/Synthesizer) [5:48]
02. Back Mask U2 (Drums/Synthesizer/Vocals) (Tech: 4 Click, Get rid of that little tambourine/Bono?: Standing in the lake at night...) [7:54]
03. Back Mask U2 (Drums/Synthesizer/Vocals) (Bono?: Can you hear her standing there...Ya, this is the middle somewhere) [7:22]
04. Back Mask U2 (Drums/Synthesizer/Vocals) (Bono: Same as D3 T02, but longer) [8:21]
 
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I found the lyrics for the first two original versions:
http://home.comcast.net/~sira/achtung/u2salome.htm

Woman (Version 1)

When the night turns mean on you,
And the day is dry,
And there's no water around,
And you can't see the road ahead,
You can only see her
White and alive.
She's laughing in the face of love.
Your love is white and alive.
This is your last chance in my dreams.
In my dreams she stands over me.
Surrounded on all sides,
She has taken the higher ground.
And I'm the willing victim of her love.
And faith my favorite drug,
And faith my favorite drug,
I'm sick for love.
Sick for her love.
Sick foods you sell.
Just the sight of you makes me wobble.
I can't see straight, walk or talk to anyone else.
I can't even talk to you.
White and alive.
I'm laughing in the face of your face.
White and alive.
Sick for love.
Sick for love.
So, between the horses of love and lust
I'm trampled underfoot.

Woman (Version 2)

And the day is dry.
And there's no water.
And you can't see the road ahead,
You can only see her.
White and alive.
You're holding on to all the same old love.
Why don't you cry, don't turn away
Away, lonesome love.

Woman.
Viva woman, say.

She hides behind you openly,
Woman.
She looks at me...

Woman.
She hides alone within, alone inside.
She makes a mirror in, all around,
All around, now,
I'm only walking in her love.
Woman, Woman.

Girl that leave you, may be a woman.
To turn you on and leave you on too high.
We walk in love.
We fall in love.
Woman.

Empty heart.
Take your coat off.
Take your coat off.

Away from the moving heart.

To high, anymore.
Your dark and cluttered heart.
And there's a quietness
That comes to this house
Where nobody can sleep.
 
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