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“ONE”

U2

Written by Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Bono.
Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.
Released on March 6, 1992.
From the 1991 Island album Achtung Baby.

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

Ooh-ooh-ooh
Oh-ooh
May we, may we, may we get
Higher
Oh, higher
Ay, yeah, go higher
Oh, higher

Assistant Mixing Engineer: Robbie Adams and Shannon Strong
Assistant Recording Engineer: Robbie Adams and Shannon Strong
Additional Guitar: Daniel Lanois
Additional Keyboards: Brian Eno
Mastering Engineer: Arnie Acosta
Recording Engineer: Flood
Mixing Engineer: Flood
Vocals: Bono
Bass: Adam Clayton
Keyboards: The Edge
Drums: Larry Mullen Jr
Guitar: The Edge
Percussion: Larry Mullen Jr

Videos directed by Phil Joanou, Mark Pellington and Anton Corbijn.

Recorded at Hansa Studios, Berlin, from October 1990 to September 1991.

℗ & © 1991 Island Records Ltd. Exclusively licensed to Universal Music Group (International). All rights reserved.

For more information about the song, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(U2_song) and https://genius.com/U2-one-lyrics. Accessed on December 8, 2021.