She teamed up with Bono of U2 for "Torn"

/blogs/U2 is releasing a new album on Friday, November 12th called Carnaval de Luz, their first new full-length album in nine years. The track that everybody is talking about right now features the last known recording from the late, great Dolly Parton called "Torn". The song was recorded in June 2026 just weeks before she passed. She co-wrote the song with Bono, and it was originally a song that she was working on, that she then teamed up with Bono on to finish it up.

The song, and U2's new album, publicly releases Friday, November 12th.

Letter courtesy of Big Machine / Borchetta Entertainment Group

“Torn” (Written by Dolly Parton & Bono)
Verse 1:
I can't deny this passion and desire
But I know it has to burn me standing this close to the fire
What am I supposed to do?
And how am I supposed to choose?
I love 'em both and I just feel so torn
I love 'em both and I just feel so torn
The glass that frames the picture cracked like ice
The photograph remembers all that we now deny
When halfway seems too far to meet,
and across the table too hard to reach
Apples falling from the same tree can roll

1st Chorus:
Torn apart these loving hearts that beat and break the same
We share a house divided and the blood that fills our veins
Brothers turn to strangers and sons deny their name
Somebody loses either way and every heart is torn
Torn, torn, torn, torn, torn, torn
Every heart is torn

Verse 2:
Hands that used to hold you clenched in fists
Words that used to sooth you cut you into bits
Are you the brother’s keeper now or know what you're fighting for?
Nothing hurts a mother more than a family at war

2nd Chorus:
Torn apart these loving hearts that beat and break the same
We share a house divided and the blood that fills our veins
When brothers turn to strangers and can’t feel each other's pain
Somebody loses either way and every heart is torn
Torn, torn, torn, torn, torn, torn, torn, torn
Every heart is torn
Every heart is torn
Torn, torn, torn
Every heart is torn