One - U2

"One" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the third track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby. During the album's recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin, conflict arose between the band members over the direction of U2's sound and the quality of their material. Tensions almost prompted the band to break up until they achieved a breakthrough with the improvisation of "One". The lyrics, written by lead singer Bono, were inspired by the band members' fractured relationships and the German reunification. Although the lyrics ostensibly describe "disunity", they have been interpreted in other ways.

Is it getting better

Or do you feel the same?

Will it make it easier on you now?

You got someone to blame

You say one love, one life (One life)

It's one need in the night

One love (one love), get to share it

Leaves you darling, if you don't care for it

Did I disappoint you?

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's too late, tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same

We get to carry each other

Carry each other

One, one

One, one

One, one

One, one

Have you come here for forgiveness?

Have you come to raise the dead?

Have you come here to play Jesus?

To the lepers in your head

Well, did I ask too much, more than a lot?

You gave me nothing, now it's all I got

We're one, but we're not the same

See we hurt each other, then we do it again

You say love is a temple, love is a higher law

Love is a temple, love is a higher law

You ask me of me to enter, but then you make me crawl

And I can't keep holding on to what you got, 'cause all you got is hurt

One love

One blood

One life

You got to do what you should

One life

With each other

Sisters and my brothers

One life

But we're not the same

We get to carry each other, carry each other

One, one

One, one

One

One love, one life