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If there is a Best Of 2000-2010, I'd say there is an 80% chance of Winter finding a home there. Cynical though I may seem regarding U2, I doubt there will be one, but I think that possibility (even taking into account the longshot of U2 dedicating a compilation to three albums) is far greater than U2 recycling the song once more for an album with a supposedly fleshed out lyrical theme. Or any album, for that matter.
#1 I'd estimate there is maybe a 20% chance of their even being a Best of 2000-2010 album.
#2 A song which has never seen commercial release, which they are working on a final version of still can hardly be called "recycled."
#3 I'm yet to hear any plausible theory as to why Winter wasn't on the Brothers Soundtrack except for my own; that they wanted to save it for the album.
#4 I think we can assume that the 1 year old news that SOA would have a supposed lyrical running theme (To the extent people imagine Bono meant) are doubtful at this date, to say the least... The odds are that whatever album we get this year will be 50% songs they had a year ago, at most!