| U2 – One Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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this song describes a couple after a breakup that was initiated by the speaker (presumably male) in the song. they both love each other deeply (hence "one" ), but due to differences (hence "not the same"), couldn't stop hurting each other in the process of trying to live together as a monogamous married couple, the idealized form of human oneness. not being able to come to terms with one another, faced with no other alternative to stop the pain and save the love, the speaker eventually retreated from the commitment and broke up their bondage, getting free from what seems a futile effort. the speaker endured with the pain of failed negotiation for so many years that the partner feels now betrayed and abandoned for no good reason, not understanding the sudden change of pattern, not realizing that in her insistence on her ways all these years, she finally put the straw that broke the camel's back, and there is no return. she wants him to commit again to her, still not offering any change in her behavior, just pointing out to the importance of love, and to the fact that if he really loved her he wouldn't just leave her for what he claims is hurtful for him. again, she is blind to the fact that its the accumulating pain she caused him throughout the years, ignoring or neglecting his needs, that finally broke his will to keep on suffering for being with her. as such being the case, he has nothing to offer her now but brotherly love, and above all a commitment to support her through the painful period of breaking up. he still loves her, she is still unwilling to change her ways for him, she won't get his loyalty back, but he offers her his everlasting affection and support, but she doesn't care for it, she blames him for abandoning her. Is it getting better [are you still angry and bitter because i decided to leave you?] Or do you feel the same [do you still blame me for abandoning you?] Will it make it easier on you Now you got someone to blame [we used to exchange blames as a couple, now i ended it, and you think it was uncalled for, as always you are belittling my pain in the relationship] You say [you call me and ask me to commit again to you] One love [because love is the most important thing, and i admit i love you] One life [because sharing a life together as a couple under love is the right way to live] When it's one need [he: when our needs meet ... In the night [...and it's just the two of us... It's one love [...only then is our love truly fulfilled We get to share it [...in a reciprocal manner...] It leaves you baby [...but this was not often the case with us... If you don't care for it [... as in my mind you were not loyal to me] Did I disappoint you? [i know you blame me for leaving you] Or leave a bad taste in your mouth? [i know you feel betrayed by it] You act like you never had love [but all the love i gave you was nothing to you, you trampled over it] And you want me to go without [you were not loyal to me in our marriage and without offering to change your behavior, you implore me not to go on with the divorce] Well it's too late [it's too late, i won't change my mind] Tonight [now when you are calling me] To drag the past out Into the light [i am not going to try and defend myself, you can blame me, it's ok] We're one [all i can say is that i love you as i always have] But we're not the same [but i just couldn't reach agreements with you, that will minimize friction and tension between us, i always got hurt from your choices] We get to carry each other [all i can offer now is commitment to deal with the pain of breaking up, that i have forced upon you by my unilateral decision] Carry each other [help you deal with the pain] One [that's what human oneness means to me, that's what i wanted from you as a spouse] Have you come here for forgiveness [are you going to say you are sorry for being disloyal to me, in hope of reconciliation] Have you come to raise the dead [are you really trying to revive what you have ruined all throughout our marriage] Have you come here to play Jesus [do you think you can redeem all the hurt you put upon me] To the lepers in your head [it's too late, i saved myself by breaking up with you, i am healed, there is no one to heal but you] Did I ask too much [i have always implored you to change your ways with me] More than a lot [you were never willing to change your ways for me] You gave me nothing [my negotiations with you always left me empty handed] Now it's all I got [and i remember vividly all these failed negotiations and the pain they brought me] We're one [i love you] But we're not the same [but i can't get along with you] We hurt each other [this causes friction and pain we can't get rid of as a couple] Then we do it again [it plagued us, and you didn't give any heed to that] You say [again you implore me to reconsider my decision] Love is a temple [you say that if i loved you, my love to you would be sacred to me and i would have never left you] Love a higher law [you say that if i really loved you, nothing could bring me to leave you, i would be willing to die for you] Love is a temple [i agree that love is sacred] Love the higher law [ i agree that love is above all] You ask me to enter [ i understand you want to materialize our love under the same roof as a monogamous couple] But then you made me crawl [but you must realize that it's the wrong way for us, as it causes unnecessary pain, we just hurt each other, and it makes no sense, it's a sin against love to continue living like that] And I can't be holding on [the pain i feel prevents me from doing whats right, so whats the use in me being there? it defeats the purpose] To what you got [maybe if you could change, i will be able to do more] When all you got is hurt [but you kept hurting me and preventing me from loving you as i want to] One love [love is sacred, it binds people together and frees them of loneliness and misery] One blood [it helps them take responsibility of one another] One life [it makes them not self-centered] You got to do what you should [so love is a means to an end, and shouldn't be used against its own design] One life [i cannot offer you my loyalty anymore, as i see no way you are willing to change your way and stop hurting me] With each other [but, i still love you and care for you and take responsibility over your well being] Sisters [but i am not going to bind myself strictly to you, you are one of many i love] Brothers One life [please accept what i have to offer to you, you are dear to me] But we're not the same [please understand my point of view, and that your unwillingness to adapt to my needs are at the bottom of our separation as a couple] We get to carry each other [please know i will always be there for you as a friend] Carry each other [please know all i hope for myself is to have you as a friend] One One |
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| U2 – Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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this song describes a couple, a man and a woman, in a dysfunctional relationship. the woman is unsatisfied with her man to the point of being disloyal, she needs more out of the world than just his love, hence trying to throw her arms around the world, instead of around the man. he keeps loyal to her out of love and admiration for her, but is unable to be of any assist to her in her pursuits, all he can do is to keep loving her and keep offering his unreserved love, though he understands it is of little value for her. out of love, he is willing to stay by her side, hence running after her, till she finds good use for his love. Six o'clock in the morning [she's out, he's home] You're the last to hear the warning [she acts as if she is not afraid to lose his love] You've been trying to throw your arms [she is unsatisfied with his love for her] Around the world [she needs more out of the world than his love] You've been falling off the sidewalk [she struggles and suffers outside his love] Your lips move but you can't talk [there is no one there to listen to her needs as he can] Tryin' to throw your arms around the world [but she feels she needs something more never the less] I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you [i will always be there for you when you want me] Be still [let me be by your side, let me help you] I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you Woman I will [that's all i want out of life] Sunrise like a nosebleed [she suffers in her discontent] Your head hurts and you can't breathe [she suffers from trying too hard] You been tryin' to throw you arms around the world How far you gonna go [she doesn't seem to change her mind] Before you lose your way back home [he might lose her completely eventually] You've been trying to throw your arms Around the world I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you [he has no intentions of losing her] Woman be still [he cries for her to stop running away from his love] I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you [he will stay loyal despite everything] Woman I will [she means the world to him] Yeah, I dreamed that I saw Dali [he dreamt at night that he succeeded in doing something impossible] With a supermarket trolley [he only wants them to succeed as a couple] He was trying to throw his arms around a girl [he tried so hard to satisfy her] He took an open top beetle [in the dream he succeeds, and he and she are together] Through the eye of a needle [the overcome every obstacle together] He was tryin' to throw his arms around the world [being together means the world to both of them] I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you Woman be still I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you Oh, Woman I will (And you just gotta, you just gotta make your faith...see...) [he begs her to believe in him and his love for her] Nothin' much to say I guess [he puts no blame on her, he can only declare his love] Just the same as all the rest [but he understands why she might not be satisfied with that] Been trying to throw your arms around the world [she needs more than what he can offer] And a woman needs a man [so she has no much use for him] Like a fish needs a bicycle [he is actually useless in helping her gain what she wants] When you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world [because she wants something else than him] I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you [but he will remain loyal yet] I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you [but he will remain loyal yet] I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you [but he will remain loyal yet] Woman be still [believe in me] Woman be still [believe in me] Be still Woman be still Woman I will [you mean the world to me] |
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| U2 – The Fly Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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this song describes a conversation between a couple having a bitter break up, a man and a woman. the man is steadfast in his resolution to break up, though it torments him and the woman he loves. she constantly hurt him in the past by not being faithful to him by his standards, but he endured through it. now he finally doesn't see any point in continuing the relationship, but she accuses him of abandoning her for a better future for himself. he tries to explain to her that it was in her hands, and she kept choosing to be unfaithful and caused him pain he is now running away from, but she is reluctant to accept his explanations, she accuses him of putting on excuses in order to get rid of her, as in her mind he never really loved her. if he did, he wouldn't have left her over a trivial thing, which he insist to call a betrayal: Oh, baby child...[he - i love you, but you are needy and can't reciprocate] It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky [he-my world is in ruins] It's no secret that our world is in darkness tonight [he- i don't know where to go from here] They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by a moon [he - you are the sun in my life] You know I don't see you when she walks in the room [he - but your remorseless betrayal leaves me no option but to leave you] It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help [she is offering help now, but he refuses, it's too little too late in his eyes, and she condemns that] It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else [she accuses him of lying to her about his reasons, not believing in her anymore] They say a secret is something you tell one other person [he is being truthful with her] So I'm telling you, child [he is going to respond to her accusations] A man will beg [he have begged her to change he ways] A man will crawl [he have lowered himself as he could to accept her ways] On the sheer face of love [all because he loves her] Like a fly on a wall [all because he found shelter in loving her] It's no secret at all [she ridicules his confession as being not honest, flattery in order to get out] It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest [she thinks he wants to leave her cause he doesn't love her, and is just feeling guilty about it] It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success [she thinks he is just not satisfied with her and wants more out of life to himself than what she can give him] Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief [she always knew he never really loved her and only used her in some egotistical way] All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief [now she knows his art his his love, and she was circumstantial] Over love... A man will rise [he - your love brought me up] A man will fall [he - your unfaithfulness ruined me] From the sheer face of love [i love you as always] Like a fly from a wall [it is out of my powers to make our love work for us as a couple] It's no secret at all [she mocks this too] Love...we shine like a Burning star [he - there is no way back, we cannot remain together] We're falling from the sky [he - we must fall apart] Tonight [he - today it is over for me, no more forbearance, i am steadfast in my wish to leave you as a spouse] A man will rise A man will fall From the sheer face of love Like a fly from a wall It's no secret at all Oh, yeah! [she is unwilling to accept his explanations and mocks them] It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky [she, mockingly - you never loved me] The universe exploded 'cause of one man's lie [she - if you had loved me at all, you wouldn't have shattered our love to pieces over such a trivial thing as a lie] Look, I gotta go, yeah I'm running outta change [he - i am tired of convincing you that what you call trivial means a world of pain to me, so i am gonna stop] There's a lot of things, if I could I'd rearrange [he - i am at a loss regarding reaching an understanding with you, all the more reason to leave our relationship] |
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