20.3.12

Asleep to an Album - Achtung Baby

In an effort to re-engage myself with the vastness of my music library, I am going to start listening to one album a night, progressing each night down the alphabet. I will post a little information about the album along with my favourite track.

Being the first night, "A" is on the docket and U2's Achtung Baby is my album of choice. My favourite song... none other than One.

Achtung Baby is U2's seventh studio album. It was released in 1991 and co-produced by a Canadian; Daniel Lanois. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Achtung Baby spawned four top-five singles on Canadian charts:
  1. Mysterious Ways (went to #1 in 1992)
  2. One (went to #1 in 1992)
  3. Even Better Than the Real Thing (went to #3 in 1992)
  4. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (went to #5 in 1992)



One by 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
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the 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 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
One

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