U2

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

From the album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb by U2

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Song Info

'Sometimes you can't make it on your own' was written by lead singer Bono as a tribute to his father, Bob Hewson, who died in 2001; Bono sang this at his funeral. The video to the song begins with a note from Bono about his father, saying "I wish I'd known him better." Read more...

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Song Stats

Highest chart position:

1

Weeks in the chart:

9

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Awards

This song has not won any awards that are recognised by Song of the Decade. We include BRIT Awards, Ivor Novello Awards, NME Awards, MTV Europe Awards, MOBO Awards and BPI Awards.

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dru2ms69

@ 3:51pm on 21 November 2009

Great song , U2 ,s most emotional of the Decade , personnal to Bono ,but brilliant

cherrytree

@ 8:55pm on 26 October 2009

2nd best ever u2 song after where the streets have no name. Very personal heart felt song.

BelievemeNatalie

@ 3:49pm on 26 October 2009

Beautiful song which can be related to by basicly everyone who has had/have parental issues.

gman69

@ 6:35pm on 25 October 2009

hey dudes , what a song, its bono's personal and it mine aswell,