Bono has opened up about collaborating with the late Dolly Parton on U2’s new song, “Torn.”

The song, which closes the band’s forthcoming album Carnaval de Luz , is reportedly the final vocal that the Queen of Country recorded before her death in August at the age of 80.

In a new interview with Apple Music ’s Zane Lowe, 66-year-old frontman Bono explained that the band had originally approached Parton about working together on a different song, that he described as being for a “Celtic Irish folk project.”

Bono continued: “I got in touch with her and we were discussing some of the songs, just her and I, across the phone line. One of the songs was called ‘Lifelong.’ I think it was kind of like a marrying song, like a wedding song.…