Ed Never Performed Operation Spirit Solo Options

[LiveForNow]

I went on YouTube to see if Ed was still using the changed lyrics to Operation Spirit on his solo tour and couldn't find a video of him performing it at all. I then went to Setlist.fm and found that he never performed the song at all on his own. Given how popular that song is compared to the other Live songs he played, it makes me think that something about that song just didn't sit will with him anymore - even with the changed lyrics.

With that said, it makes me even more glad that he played it at the NYE show with original lyrics in tact.

[PaulZAR]

I think he did change the lyrics, but more subtly and in a way that scans better.
The original lyrics:

Heard a lot of talk about this Jesus
A man of love, and a man of strength
But what a man was two thousand years ago
means nothing at all to me today

He could have been telling me about my
higher self
But he only lives inside my prayer
So what he was may have been beautiful
But the pain is right now
And right here

And the NYE version:

Heard a lot of talk about this Jesus
A man of love, and a man of strength
But what a man was two thousand years ago
can mean nothing at all to me today

He could have been telling me about my
higher self
But if he only lives inside my prayer
Then what he was may have been beautiful
But the pain is right now
And right here

That's how I heard it anyway.