Rock: "One" - U2

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
See we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love is a higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't keep holding on
To what you got
When all you've got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters and my
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...
One...

[extended version]
Can You hear us coming Lord
Can You hear us call
Feel us knocking
We're knocking at Your door

One fue uno de los singles del álbum Achtung Baby, lanzado en 1991 por los irlandeses U2. Este disco es considerado como su segunda obra maestra, junto con su anterior trabajo, The Joshua Tree (1987). La canción que nos ocupa se convirtió en uno de sus temas más alabados, y tuvo una gran acogida en las listas de éxitos de todo el mundo, llegando a ser #1 en EEUU, Reino Unido, Canadá, España...

Desde su lanzamiento, One ha sido objeto de múltiples versiones de gran variedad de artistas, desde grupos alternativos como REM o Shinedown hasta la Real Orquesta Filarmónica.

He de destacar el cover realizado por Shinedown, que, a mi juicio, supera a todos los demás, y está al nivel (si no por encima) de la versión original. La voz de Brent Smith es demasiado buena para ser de este mundo. Os dejo aquí su versión en acústico de One.

One - Shinedown (acoustic Cover)