Video
The song was promoted with a music video directed by Phil Joanou. The video takes place in a restaurant. The screen is split horizontally, showing Bono in the top half and the person sitting across from him in the bottom half. The lighting brightly lights up each person's face (in contrast to the dim backgrounds). As Bono sings the song, numerous different people sit down at his table, talk for a while, and leave (including the three other members of the band at one point).
The video was filmed at a slower speed and sped up; thus, Bono had to learn how to sing the song slowly in order to properly synchronize with the song. The other people in the video spoke and moved at regular speed, so they appear sped up in the video.
The video appears on the DVD for The Best of 1990-2000, along with director's commentary.
An alternate cut of the video, in which scenes from the movie City of Angels are interspliced, was also released.
Read more about this topic: If God Will Send His Angels
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