Green Sighting: U2 Featuring Jay-Z

Since summer, U2 has been using a green backdrop and superimposed images from the June protests in Iran on stage every time they have played Sunday Bloody Sunday on tour.

For Thursday's MTV Europe Music Awards, U2 played the song in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gates and was joined on stage with Jay-Z, who referenced the Iranian election directly in his short rap lyrics. (A portion
of the lyrics to Jay-Z's performance is transcribed below the video.)

you can't be oppressed,
turn on your radio,
out in berlin,
walls are fallin',
revolution is callin',
out in iran,
elections are fixed,
out in rwanda,
genocide is sick,
turn on your radio,
let's all harmonize,
to the people in power.

The duo ended with a short interlude into Bob Marley's Get Up, Stand Up before closing out Sunday Bloody Sunday.