Carnaval de Luz, U2’s 16th studio album, has arrived, and with it the band’s much-anticipated duet with Dolly Parton. The LP’s closer, ‘Torn’, also marks the last song Parton recorded before her passing in August. Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid co-wrote the track, which features Daniel Lanois on pedal steel. Listen to it below.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel last night, Bono said: “It’s her last prayer, in a way, this song. It feels like a prayer. And I think it’s for America. But I think it’s for anywhere where there’s divided politics. You know, people at the kitchen table this Thanksgiving will be fighting over politics and she has a line, ‘nothing hurts a mother more than a family at war.’ She didn’t have kids or children. But especially, Americans, you are the children of Dolly Parton. And it’s her prayer that you reach across the table and find common purpose.”
