With the band almost at breaking point due to conflict between the members with regards to the quality of their material and the direction of their sound, this single reunited the group due to a chord progression composed by the Edge and the lyrics written by Bono.
A rock ballad played in 4/4 time signature at a tempo of 91 beats a minute, inspiration was drawn from the German reunification, with Bono describing the theme as being about people coming together, not in a hippie sense but rather, although “we are one, we are not the same “and that we have to get along together in this world if we want the world to survive.
As Bono says “It’s a reminder we have no choice.”
'One' by U2
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
One love
We get to share 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
Well 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
