One

Gli U2 sono il mio gruppo preferito. Lo sono da circa 17 anni, da quando sono prepotentemente entrati ai vertici della mia personale top ten e da lì non sono mai scesi. Sono per me una certezza. Sentire le loro canzoni ed emozionarmi ogni volta mi fa capire che, in fondo, sono sempre io, nonostante il trascorrere del tempo e i cambiamenti che esso comporta.

 

Ho scelto di postare One (ma in futuro non sono affatto esclusi altri tributi…), perché secondo me è la loro migliore canzone ed è quella che più si avvicina al concetto di “canzone perfetta”..

 

La-                 Re         Fa                 Sol

Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you, now you got someone to blame?
 Do                             La-                   Fa                    Do

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.

Do                                        La-
You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Do                                        La-

Love is a temple, love the higher law.

Do                                       Sol
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl

Sol                                       Fa
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, one.