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Exit (U2 song)
"Exit" is a song by rock band U2. It is the tenth track on their 1987 album ''The Joshua Tree''. "Exit" was developed from a lengthy jam that was recorded in a single take and edited down to a shorter arrangement. The lyrics, which portray the mind of a serial killer, were inspired by lead singer Bono's reading of Norman Mailer's 1980 novel ''The Executioner's Song'', and other related works. In his trial for the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer, Robert John Bardo used "Exit" as part of his defence, claiming the song had influenced his actions.
"Exit" was frequently played live on The Joshua Tree Tour, but has been performed on just one occasion since then. Live performances are depicted in the 1988 film ''Rattle and Hum'' and the 2007 video and live album ''Live from Paris''.
==Writing and recording==
"Exit" was created on the final day of recording for ''The Joshua Tree''.〔Averill, Steve (1987). ''The Joshua Tree Tour programme''. p. 45〕 It developed from a lengthy jam that the band recorded in a single take. Producer Brian Eno edited the jam down to the end length.〔 Guitarist the Edge said "it started off as an exercise in playing together with a kind of mood and a place in mind. And it really, for me, it brought me there, it really did succeed as an experiment." Producer Daniel Lanois said "There's something that happens when U2 bash it out in the band room... and sometimes things get out of control, sonically, in a good way. Out of control in the sense that you don't know what it is anymore, it just takes on a life of its own, and it makes people do things."〔 Speaking of the jam, he noted "it was a long jam, and there was just this one section of it that had some kind of magic to it, and we just decided to turn it into something."〔
The lyrics were inspired by Norman Mailer's 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ''The Executioner's Song'', written about serial killer Gary Gilmore, and by Truman Capote's 1966 novel ''In Cold Blood''. Lead singer Bono had read both novels and wanted to try and write "a story in the mind of a killer".〔〔Luerssen (2010), pp. 192〕 Further reading of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver caused him to try and understand "the ordinary stock first and then the outsiders, the driftwood — those on the fringes of the promised land, cut off from the American dream."〔Stokes (2005), p. 76〕 Bono described the lyrics as "just a short story really, except I left out a few of the verses because I liked it as a sketch. It's just about a guy who gets an idea into his head. He picks it up off a preacher on the radio or something and goes out...". He noted that, although 30 songs were in contention for inclusion on the album, he "wanted a song with that sense of violence in it, especially before 'Mothers of the Disappeared'."
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