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ONE love, blood, life
I've had 'One' on repeat for the last hour now and have been listening to it quite a bit the past few days. For a long time I thought 'With Or Without You' was U2's crowning achievement...but as I've grown up a little, I've come to think that 'One' holds that title. The thing is, when I listen to WOWY, no matter how much I love it, it doesn't have that emotional weight to it that puts me at peace and makes me want to cry at the same time. 'One' does.
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
The message in this song is so universal, so relatable, and yet so ambigious. Is it about a failed relationship? Is it about death? Is it about AIDs or other diseases? Is it about the band itself? Could be any of them, could be none of them. But at the root of the four subjects just outlined, is the same basic concept:
Unconditional tolerance of and amongst all humans in life and in death. That when all the excess stuff is stripped, nationality, race, religious/political beliefs, sexual orientation, etc etc, that we are all just people trying to get through life. That tolerance of and amongst each other, not neccessarily love for or even like for each other, but just that tolerance and respect of/for all, is essential for the journey.
And when you think about it, that is the essence of the human spirit, the will to do the best you can in life and the eternal need all throughout life for kinship with your fellow humans. And 'One' has captured that, the human spirit, in four minutes. I don't know that any other single rock song has.
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
The message in this song is so universal, so relatable, and yet so ambigious. Is it about a failed relationship? Is it about death? Is it about AIDs or other diseases? Is it about the band itself? Could be any of them, could be none of them. But at the root of the four subjects just outlined, is the same basic concept:
Unconditional tolerance of and amongst all humans in life and in death. That when all the excess stuff is stripped, nationality, race, religious/political beliefs, sexual orientation, etc etc, that we are all just people trying to get through life. That tolerance of and amongst each other, not neccessarily love for or even like for each other, but just that tolerance and respect of/for all, is essential for the journey.
And when you think about it, that is the essence of the human spirit, the will to do the best you can in life and the eternal need all throughout life for kinship with your fellow humans. And 'One' has captured that, the human spirit, in four minutes. I don't know that any other single rock song has.
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