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One

Release date: 24th February 1992

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'One' is the third track from U2's seventh album, 'Achtung Baby', released as a single on 24 February 1992. The song emerged during fraught recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin, where conflict between the band members threatened to derail the project. According to the Edge, the melody arrived whilst the group jammed on a progression that would later become 'Mysterious Ways'; he recalls something very powerful suddenly happening in the room.

The lyric adopts a voice caught between intimacy and fracture. Bono questions whether things are getting better, whether forgiveness is possible, whether love can survive when 'we're one but we're not the same'. The refrain insists on unity, 'one love, one blood', but the verses catalogue disappointment and hurt done and repeated. The Edge has described it as the first in a new, more intimate style for the band.

Bono has noted the song's twisted quality, expressing bemusement that so many couples choose it for weddings when it is, in his view, about splitting up. 'One' has become one of U2's most recognised songs.

"One" is a single by U2, released 24th February 1992. Full lyrics are available below.

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One

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 nothin' 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 holdin' 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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