 " Moment of Surrender " was written by U2 and No Line on the Horizon producers / co @-@ writers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois during a two @-@ week recording session in Fez , Morocco between May and June 2007 . The song was developed within a few hours , and then recorded in a single take in a riad of the hotel Riad El Yacout . Eno began by creating a percussion loop of a " rolling hand drum " so that the band would have something to improvise along with when they joined him for songwriting and recording . However , Eno had not arranged the loop properly and the result was a strange , uneven beat that he compared to " a wheeled carriage that had one of the wheels a bit cracked " or " the way a camel moves " . Although Eno was trying to fix the loop , drummer Larry Mullen , Jr. began playing along to it . Eno then asked guitarist the Edge to play some chords . After a quick discussion about the chord changes and the meter ( in which they decided to have a " funny layout " that was not based on " eighths or sixteenths " ) , the six of them improvised the entirety of the piece . 
 " Moment of Surrender " was written by U2 and No Line on the Horizon producers / co @-@ writers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois during a two @-@ week recording session in Fez , Morocco between May and June 2007 . The song was developed within a few hours , and then recorded in a single take in a riad of the hotel Riad El Yacout . Eno began by creating a percussion loop of a " rolling hand drum " so that the band would have something to improvise along with when they joined him for songwriting and recording . However , Eno <a href='been_done' title='1'><mark>had</mark></a> not arranged <a href='None' title='2'><mark>the</mark></a><a href='negative_concord' title='3'><mark>loop</mark></a> properly and the result was a strange , uneven beat <a href='null_relcl' title='4'><mark>that</mark></a>he compared to " a wheeled carriage <a href='null_relcl' title='5'><mark>that</mark></a>had one of the wheels a bit cracked " or " the way a camel <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>moves</mark></a> " . Although Eno was trying to fix the loop , drummer Larry Mullen , Jr. began playing along to it . Eno then asked guitarist the Edge to play some chords . After a quick discussion about the chord changes and the meter ( in which they decided to have a " funny layout " <a href='null_relcl' title='7'><mark>that</mark></a>was not based on " <a href='negative_concord' title='8'><mark>eighths</mark></a> or sixteenths " ) , the six of them improvised the entirety of the piece . 
 Moment of Surrender  was written by U2 and No Line on the Horizon producers / co @-@ writers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois during a two @-@ week recording session in Fez , Morocco between May and June 2007 . The song was developed within a few hours , and then recorded in a single take in a riad of the hotel Riad El Yacout . Eno began by creating a percussion loop of a " rollin hand drum " so that the band would have something to improvise along w when they joined him for songwriting and recording . However , Eno done not arranged no loop properly and the result was a strange , uneven beat he compared to " a wheeled carriage had one of the wheels a bit cracked " or " da way a camel move " . Although Eno was tryna fix the loop , drummer Larry Mullen , Jr. began playin along to it . Eno then asked guitarist the Edge to play sum chords . After a quick discussion about the chord changes and the meter ( in which they decided to have a " funny layout " was not based on " no eighths or sixteenths " ) , the six of em improvised the entirety of the piece .