<P> According to the Edge, the song was one of several from the album for which Bono wrote lyrics to his friends and family after having a "major scare where he really wasn't sure he would be around very much in the future". Bono composed the lyrics after having a dream that he "had destroyed something that's most important to (him)--(his) relationship" with his wife Ali . The Edge described "You're the Best Thing About Me" as a love song but with another layer, as it raises the "cosmic question...why when everything is perfect do we have a tendency to mess it up?" Anticipating a reaction to the song, Bono joked, "You're putting out a song about your girlfriend when the world is on fire?" The song title was inspired by a comment that Irish media personality Eamon Dunphy made to Bono in a Dublin bar, telling him the best thing about him was Ali . </P> <P> "You're the Best Thing About Me" was completed one week prior to its release as a single . The Edge said the prior version of the song had a more elaborate, complicated arrangement with a "mellow", "low - key" beginning . When U2 began discussing how to arrange the song for live performances, the guitarist found an early demo of it when they were first testing out various arrangement ideas . After listening to it, the group decided to revert to the song's original, simpler guitar - driven arrangement, using what the Edge called "the primary colors of U2" of guitar, drums, and bass . He said that as a result of the musical change, the lyrics "came to life" and the song had a counterbalance, as he believed the prior version was lyrically too reflective when it was mellower . The Edge said the band worked "furiously" on the new version of the song for two days to meet their deadline for submitting it . </P> <P> In a 15 May 2017 article in The Irish Times, Bono first mentioned that the band's next single would be "You're the Best Thing About Me". On 29 August 2017, the song was confirmed to be the first single from Songs of Experience, and it was released on 6 September . The cover photograph, taken by the band's photographer Anton Corbijn, depicts the Edge's daughter, Sian, wearing a military helmet . The image evokes the cover art of the group's 1998 compilation album The Best of 1980--1990, which showed the younger brother of Guggi, a friend of Bono, wearing a similar helmet . On 7 September, the band performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon before debuting it live three days later at a concert in Indianapolis on the Joshua Tree Tour 2017 . The song was the band's 42nd track to enter the Alternative Songs chart in the US, further extending their record for the chart . It was also the group's 27th entry on the Adult Alternative Songs chart, the second-most all time; the track eventually reached number one on Adult Alternative Songs, making it U2's record - breaking 13th track to top the chart . </P> <P> On 15 September, a remix of the song by Kygo was released . The remix was the same collaboration with U2 that he debuted the year prior at the Cloud 9 Festival . </P>

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