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{title: One} {artist: U2} {time: 4/4} {tempo: 93} {key: C} {meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06} {start_of_part: Intro} [Am] [Dsus2] [FM7] [G] [Am] [Dsus2] [FM7] [G] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} [Am] is it getting [Dsus2]better, [FM7] or do you feel the [G]same? [Am] will it make it [Dsus2]easier on you, now [FM7] you got someone to [G]blame? {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 1} you say: [C] one love, [Am] one life [FM7] it's one need [C] in the night [C] one love, [Am] get to share it [FM7] leaves you baby, if you [C] don't care for it {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Link} [Am] [Dsus2] [FM7] [G] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 2} [Am] did i disap-[Dsus2]point you, [FM7] or leave a bad taste in your [G]mouth? [Am] you act like you never [Dsus2]had love, [FM7] and you want me to go with-[G]out {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 2} well it's [C] too late [Am] tonight [FM7] to drag the past out in-[C]to the light [C] we're one, but we're [Am] not the same we get to [FM7] carry each other, [C]carry each other {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Link} [Am] [D7] [FM7] [G] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 3} [Am] have you come here for for-[Dsus2]giveness, [FM7] have you come to raise the [G]dead? [Am] have you come here to play [Dsus2]Jesus [FM7] to the lepers in your [G]head? {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 3} [C] did I ask too much, [Am] more than a lot? [FM7] you gave me nothing, now it's [C] all I got [C] we're one, but we're [Am]not the same and we [FM7] hurt each other, then we [C]do it again {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Bridge} you say: [C] love is a temple, [Am]love is a higher law [C]love is a temple, [Am]love is the higher law you [C]ask me to enter, but [G]then you make me crawl and i can't be holding [F]on to what you got, [F] when all you got is [C]hurt {end_of_part} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 4} [C] one love, [Am] one blood, [FM7] one life, you got to [C]do what you should [C] one life, [Am] with each other, [FM7] sisters, [C] brothers [C] one life, but we're [Am] not the same, we get to [FM7] carry each other, [C]carry each other {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Outtro, repeat} [C] [Am] [FM7] [C] {end_of_part}