Lyrics for One as interpreted by spitfirek7

One Lyrics
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
When it's one need
In the night
It's one love
We get to share it
It leaves you baby
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

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come tor raise the dead
Havew you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head
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
We hurt each other
Then we do it again

You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should

One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers

One life
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other

One

One.

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Hofi
04-14-2005

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i absolutely agree with allan777.
Short sentence with the whole meaning.

FANTASTIC SoNG !!!!!!

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Anthem515
05-27-2005

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This is without a doubt the best song ever created in the history of the world. The tune is great, it puts me in a mood unlike any other, and the message of the song is unlike any other. The message means we are one, we should love each other and behave like a brotherhood. This song is amazing.

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dudette26
06-04-2005

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in general, the song to me is about brotherhood and how we're all human/ onekind

but you know i never understood this one part:

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come tor raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

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unspeakableme
06-08-2005

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Dudette26: She hurt him, he still loves her, but suddenly she's coming back to him..and he remembers the hurt and asks her why she even bothers. Did she come to somehow try and make his pain disappear..just to hurt him again? Did she come for forgiveness? Etc..

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Deltawing
06-16-2005

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"Look, it's a little odd for me when people walk up and say 'We played One at our wedding - thank you so much.' Did you ever hear the lyrics?! The spleen and the bile, and you walked down the aisle to that one, did you?" - Bono in this months MOJO, when talking about odd uses of songs, and no-one listening to the lyrics

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Kaida
06-29-2005

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What is the real meaning of this song anyway? As it is my favourite song of all time, but I want to understand it...

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Kaida
07-04-2005

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Anyone?

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smsinitaly
07-19-2005

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For what I know, this world is one.
For one who falls someother feel a little sad.
And we've got to do what we should.
And we've got to carry each other.
And we've got to carry the ones we most dislike,
the ones we always think someone else has got to do it.

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AssD
07-21-2005

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I love this song.
This song made U2 to one of my favorite band of all time. ^^

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adam1986
07-24-2005

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i love this song, but have any of you checked out Johnny Cash's cover of this. It is most excellent. U2's version is excellent, but i like Johnny's version better

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willia05
09-08-2005

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I love Johnny Cash but I can't imagine anyone coming close to singing this song like Bono

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garbagerox
09-27-2005

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I hate U2 They are one of the worst bands ever and this song is Really bad. U2 are so boring all you people that like them have problems

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drthom1978
10-21-2005

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This is a religious song. U2, at least 3 of them have had a previous history of strong religious convictions which have been tested and/or lost and regained. One is a reference to faith in a higher power and union with it, in the face of adversity or aparent abandonment.

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Factory3
12-03-2005

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im in this situation atm, its very hard to cope with.

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U2rocks
12-17-2005

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Look with all the people arguing fervently about what it means, its possible that U2 had several meanings that they all fit together in one song. Edge's divorce, the band starting to break up, they made this. I personally think though, that it is about a gay son who was disowned by his father. The son is now dying of AIDS, and he comes to his father to make things right. The song is a conversation between them.

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juliusmacmulius
12-25-2005

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In my opinion this isnt just one of the best U2 songs...but one of the best songs of all time! Just one question....when its played live sometimes an extra verse is added right at the end that goes something like this:
"You hear me coming lord
You hear me call..
You hear me knocking, knocking at your door
You hear me coming lord, you hear me call
Hear me scratching,will you make me crawl?"

Any ideas of the meaning behind this little verse?

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gemstarrs
12-31-2005

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I think on one level, this song is about two people who love one & other but just can't seem to get it right because they always seem to hurt each other. And in response to dudette:

"Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come tor raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head"

I think he's asking his lover if she came to him for forgiveness... or if she came to yell & argue ("raising the dead" is sometimes a reference to being very loud)... or if she came to placate them both... make herself feel better and less guilty for the pain she's caused him by making excuses and trying to convince herself that her mistakes were not so bad -- embracing her poisonous demons the same way that Jesus embraced the lepers. I think he is calling her SELFISH with the last question, it's not a good thing despite the 'Jesus' reference... he's saying her intentions are blasphemous if that is indeed what she is trying to do. But he just says it in a beautifully poetic way.

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Hysteria
01-03-2006

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I like the whole idea of this song being about 'community', 'brotherhood' or the Irish. It seems so much more easier to understand it that way. And I also hate the fact how heaps of people seem to think every song is about a girl or a guy, no offence to the people who do lol

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Mr_sarajevo
01-20-2006

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I think it's one of those songs that has different meanings to everyone, intentionally. It's a song written during a time of need that has expressed so many people when struggling, whether it be love or illness. the greatest songs have an ability to cater to all people in all situations. The greatest of all time?!?

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Mr_sarajevo
01-21-2006

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To me, I went on a vacation with my friends, I met a girl , got to now her well, was mad about her. I looked at the email adress she was punchin into my phone and it was the words of the chorus of this song. She didn't know of the song and well, when i said U2 in a kinda startled amazement she looked at me worriedly and said "yeah?" thinking i meant you too? and not U2 the band. I had my mp3 player with me and as i soon as i was torn away from her two days later to go somewhere else, i would listen to this song all the time. Over the months, we grew apart. I was pretty devastated and listen to this song whenever i feel i miss her. Not the original recording, as great as it was, but two other versions, one by a dutch rock band named Kane, and the astounding perfformance they did at Live8.

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iloveu2
01-28-2006

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hey, all u2 fans! vote for u2 as the best band ever at http://www.wanderlist.com/bestrockbandever

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rhw830
02-01-2006

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I heard Bono talk about this song, he said it's actually a very angry song, and he doesn't understand how people equate it as a love song. Which is you really listen to it, you can hear the pain and anger seething through it. He said it's about relationship love, but also about his own relationship with God and how difficult it can be sometimes. Sometimes the demands are so high. That where you get the line, "you ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl." Anyway, I'm just repeating what bono himself said. You can get the MP3 of this interview at Rollingstone.

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untelix
02-04-2006

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It's about a guy and his coming-out and his concerns what his dad might think!

Am I still rightly informed?

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dmesg
02-11-2006

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God, this song kills me. Sure, it may have been written about a guy coming out to his dad but I think most of us have had a situation like that: there's someone in your life you love desperately but you simply can't go on having that person in your life hurting each other like you are.

Dudette asked about the Jesus / lepers verse; at least to me that's kind of the key to the song. Whoever this is (let's stick with the story that this is a guy coming out to his father) has basically ruined this guy's life by trying to convince him the love he has felt for other people isn't real ("you act like you never had love and want me to go without"). The father (by this reading) still has a guilty conscience about this and keeps seeing him wanting everything to be better once the son has seen the light.

But things won't get better that way, and the "I" in the song has finally realized that as much as he loves his dad, he can't let them keep on hurting each other. And if that means they can't see each other for years, or ever, then that's how it is. It's realizing that you love someone enough to remove them from your life because you can't love each other sanely. And something about the sound of this song absolutely captures that feeling for me.

And, yeah, I think people who get married to this song are crazy.

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davesenai
02-21-2006

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As a poetry i dependes on how the listener feels it.
If the song was completely understood It wont be so successfull as it is.
May be brotherhood, a heterosex love, may be a homo... dad and son... It fits anyway.
Thats the JOY

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