song of the day: one - mary j. blige & u2

Dec 17, 2005 12:11

i was never a u2 fan...
usually steer clear of rock song/anthems...
but this rock ballad is the realest shit...
let's rewind back to the 90s...
i got the original as well as the duet...
give the duet a try...
mary can really emote!!!
so much drama!!!

one - u2
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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...life

One

triphopper's review:

on first listen it sounds like a straight out love ballad...
but read the lyrics closely and you realise bono is addressing the song to his father...

"We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other"

they are each other's support...
probably after some family tragedy...
a death in the family perhaps???

healing is hard and bono is asking his dad to let go of the hurt...
we should all learn to let go of the pain of losing a love one...
"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"

we must all learn to let go of the hurt for it affects everyone around us...
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