One Lyrics Seem to Fit New Orleans crisis....

[u2wedge]

I was just thinking today that the lyrics to ''One" would be a good soundtrack to some of the footage coming out of New Orleans. Seems to hit a lot of things on multiple levels.

What do you think?


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

 

[Theedge070]

In terms of U2 songs, I'd go with Miracle Drug. I think One is based on a p v. p level, not multiple beings.

 

[u2wedge]

I think One is based on a p v. p level, not multiple beings.

depends which way you look at it...

 

[AtomicBono]

That's the beautiful thing about One, the general message can fit many circumstances. I've always felt the song to be on more of a personal level, but I remember seeing the song paired with some 9/11 footage, and of course now it's used as the theme of the ONE campaign. "We're one, but we're not the same...we get to carry each other." I think everyone can identify with that line.

 

[u2wedge]

That's the beautiful thing about One, the general message can fit many circumstances. I've always felt the song to be on more of a personal level, but I remember seeing the song paired with some 9/11 footage, and of course now it's used as the theme of the ONE campaign. "We're one, but we're not the same...we get to carry each other." I think everyone can identify with that line.

as well as 'you gave me nothing, and now it's all i've got.'

Whenever I hear that lyric now, I see images in my head of those stranded outside of the SuperDome and on I10.

 

[LyricalDrug]

Yeah, 'One' has such a universal feeling that it seems appropriate in so many situations.

You should also hear "City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie. Those lyrics are downright eerie in the present context:

"Good morning, America, how are you?
Don't you know me? I'm your native son/
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans/
I'll be gone 500 miles before the day is done"

 

[Joshua87]

I think this one is quite obvious IMHO

THE CITY'S AFLOOD
and our love turns to rust
WE'RE BEATEN AND BLOWN BY THE WIND
TRAMPLED IN DUST
ill show you a place
high on a desert plane
where the streets have no name

 

[bombergirl1978]

fits perfectly Joshua

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

I've been listening to Crumbs from Your Table a lot in my car this week, and there's so much of it that I feel could be in the voice of someone going through this crisis, directed toward the president. Especially this part:

You speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But I’m waiting on the crumbs from your table

Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die
Three to a bed
Sister Ann, she said
Dignity passes by

The people of New Orleans don't need any bureaucratic finger pointing or useless political rhetoric. They need sustenance and help that the government has taken far too long to try to provide. This song has always been the one that's spoken to me most powerfully on the new album, but it's taken on so much more meaning in the last few weeks.

 

[babyman]

That's the beautiful thing about One, the general message can fit many circumstances.

agree