This song has been on my mind a lot this week. The first is the video version, and the images are powerful, but the second is live and has so much more feeling evident.
The layers in this song are untold.
Random thoughts about why I think so below. This song reflects this whole weeks’ writing for me.
Read the lyrics.
Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame
You sayOne 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 itDid 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’sToo 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
OneHave you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your headDid 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 hurtOne 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 otherOne
One
Think about Prop 8 passing, think about how society judges a love that is not the same, but is the same One Love. The first video really is to make this point.
Think about War, and how we think we are playing Jesus, to imaginary lepers of our exceptionalism when really all we are doing is destroying the One Love.
Think about how divided we are on this planet, not carrying each other, when we are all being made to crawl. When we are really One. Love.
Can we drag our recent political past out into the light? Or is to too late? Are we holding onto hurt that will stop the One Love?
Or think about all the disappointments you may carry or have carried, from people who chose to give nothing, and chose giving pain. We are not the same, so did we ask too much expecting the Love of us as part of the One?
Truth be told, it was probably written as a heartbroken break-up song of a failed intimate relationship.
Instead of making me feel sympathy or melancholy for his grief, it instead fills me with Hope.
Because Love is a temple, Love a higher law and the answer is to carry each other.
Brothers, Sisters.
One.
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LOVE U2.
Thank you very much. 🙂