These tracks below have a good chance of being in the new album.

"Love Is All We Have Left" - a song Bono named during his May, 2006, trip to Africa as one that he had recently written. "It?s like an old Broadway tune. I thought it was a Frank Sinatra song," Bono said.

"North Star," a song from the How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb sessions which included a guest organ appearance from Michael W. Smith. In this CCM article, Smith describes the song as a tribute to Johnny Cash.

"Mercy", one of the last songs to get cut from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, described in Blender magazine as "a six-and-a-half-minute outpouring of U2 at its most uninhibitedly U2-ish"

"Lead Me In The Way I Should Go" -- a contender for Atomic Bomb first mentioned in this February, 2003, interview with Bono in Grammy Magazine

"You Can't Give Away Your Heart" - a contender for Atomic Bomb first mentioned in SPIN magazine

source: www.atu2.com

I don't know about the stones. Recently I went to a Bob Dylan concert in San Francisco. He is in his 60s but he looks 75. He still rocks! I am sure Bono, Edge, larry and adam will still be rocking their sold out shows in their 70s if they manage to stay together for that long.

U2 has been at their peak since the late 80s. They remained at the top throughout the 90s and the better half of the running decade. Such longevity begs for a lengthy slowing down period. It wouldn't be mathematically feasible if they quit in next 10 years. The graph would look awkward with that precipitous descending curve.

Btw, I left my iPod on the BART. I?ve been telling myself that it?s better this way. Now I can read newspaper during my endless commute hours.

But it was a gift from my little sister. That makes it hard to swallow. *sigh*

I heard they're retiring within the next ten years :(

Don't know how much validity is in that statement, but it depresses me thinking that I won't hear Bono's yearning voice in any new songs. Boo!