[MUSIC] U2, "One"

[rfmcdonald]

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've got to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One

U2's absolutely brilliant career-making 1991 song "One", off of Achtung Baby turns out to have a very interesting specific meaning indeed, via trapezebear. It has many possible specific meanings, mind, all of them plausible. This is what makes for great art.

You say
Love is a temple
Love's a higher law
Love is a temple
Love's a 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've got is hurt