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 to raise the dead
Have 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 made 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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Track duration: 04:35

"One" as written by Dave Evans Paul Hewson

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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  • 0
    General Comment:This is a song about one vary hard , exhausting kind of love that gets you in a noway situation... The person that got dumped is doing the talking after many brakeups and reconciliations.

    Is it getting better?
    Or do you feel the same?
    Will it make it easier on you now?
    You got someone to blame

    That person is beeing sarcastic, cause the other one only thiks about himself and its always searching for exuses in her for the leave...
    You say

    One love
    One life
    When it's one need
    In the night
    One love
    We get to share it
    Leaves you baby if you
    Don't care for it
    He is seeking for comfort in his ex ( maybue its a ,,she " -it doesnt matter) and trying to make love look like something less and if you dont responde -you cant expirience 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
    She is beeing sarcastic again. ,,You act..." means that he doesn´t show love to her and by fooling her by coming back he doesnt let her move on

    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

    She is a bit tired of going throug thair past again. Thay are soulmates ( Plato- 2 soulmates are one), but thay are diferent people...and by ,,carrying each other" , she suffers and cant go on with her life

    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
    She is asking him , again sarcasticly if he wants her to forgive, ,,raise her from the dead" or is he just trying to calm his councies...

    Did I ask too much?
    More than a lot.
    You gave me nothing,
    Now it's all I got
    Its qute clear what is it about. She changed, and there is no love left to give


    We're one
    But we're not the same
    Well we
    Hurt each other
    Then we do it again

    Again, thair just diferent, except she can now hurt him to by rejecting him...

    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

    He is trying to convince her that he loves her, by using well known frases, but she reminds him that he allready did that once and made her crawl in the temple of love. She doesnt want that for herself anymore cause she only gets 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

    Here she referes to the whole world, to stop being egocentric and start giving thamselves to each others...
    Flag mikaaaon April 22, 2013   Link
  • +1
    My Interpretation:Is it getting better
    Or do you feel the same
    Will it make it easier on you
    Now you got someone to blame

    For me this is Bono or the main character asking his former loved one how they are doing, sounding caring, and then criticizing her for blaming him for what happened.

    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

    Here he talks about how if you don't put in an effort, love will leave you.

    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

    Bono asks his former loved one if he didn't suit her, if he just didn't feel right for her. Then he accuses her of being inexperienced with love and possibly sabotaging him trying to get a new relationship after theirs.

    Well it's too late
    Tonight
    To drag the past out
    Into the light

    Now he's saying she can no longer use what happened in their past to use against him, and that the past is the past, they have new issues to deal with.

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

    He points out how they might've been together, but they never truly had anything.

    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

    He now sees she's come back to him, trying to rekindle the relationship. When he says "Have you come to raise the dead" that is her trying to bring back their "dead" relationship. She tries to heal their sick status. It is represented by Jesus healing lepers (sick people).

    Did I ask too much
    More than a lot
    You gave me nothing
    Now it's all I got

    Bono has responded by asking if what he did (apparently HE did something) was so bad. But then he says the little she gave him is all he has left.

    We're one
    But we're not the same
    We hurt each other
    Then we do it again

    (I already explained lines 1
    Flag bonoedgeU2on October 18, 2012   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation:On the whole I agree with most people but there are parts that really apply to me for other reasons,I didn't find out untill I lost touch with a very special friend that he was in fact my father and the games he played made me think of this song like "you ask me to enter then make me crawl" he was hot and cold all the time because I got too close and then he would back off because of his new wife but he really did give me nothing and thats all i had so i couldnt hold on when all he had was hurt,there are parts that apply to everyone but on the whole it is about a disfunctional love tryst.Hope that makes sense guys. Any way this is a song dear to my heart and im sure a lot of other people.
    Flag bert2012on August 12, 2012   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:i'd like to mash this song with metallica's one
    Flag theamazingfeldon March 28, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:about divorce. Whenever i hear this song i think of my parents and their divorce and how they must think of eachother now
    Flagged musicsoccer13on February 01, 2012   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:it's amazing how after so many years of loving this song (and achtung baby in general), suddenly this song takes on a new meaning for me personally. it's effing devastating. by far, the most beautiful U2 song ever. yes, i agree it is about the band... but NOW, i truly understand the dynamic of those who see this as an "i love you but you hurt me" love song. yikes.
    Flag chicananerdon October 28, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This song is actually about divorce. Which makes it ironic that people play it as their first wedding dance song.
    Flag nlifeon September 27, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I could be wrong but i heard from an official source thats about a guy whos in hospital dying of AIDS.
    Flag IndieRock97on September 01, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Not every song is about romantic relationships between two people. I think "One" is about a much bigger picture than that. "One" has a world peace, and caring for your fellow man vibe to it.
    Flag WildNWonderfulon August 13, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:so apparently it's a song about a universally essential need; we may not see eye to eye, or approve of eachothers views, we may even hate each other down to the very ground we walk on, but none of that matters because at the center of it all we truly need each other whether we like it or not.
    Flag scope88976on July 22, 2011   Link

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