On September 10, 2005 U2 contributed to the Hurricane Katrina benefit DVD, “Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast”. Their contribution was performed live from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto Canada, where they were rehersing for the third leg of the Vertigo Tour. As a special bonus, Mary J. Blige appeared with them to sing “One” on that telethon. That performance was released as a concert DVD and features the original version of this song. For her album “The Breakthrough”, Mary J. Blige took this base performance from September 2005, and added additional strings and vocals, as well as other additional music.

The song was edited down to a “Single Edit” of the track, and was released in the UK and Europe as a single.

In the UK there were two versions of the CD released as a promotional single. Both were released in a slimline jewel case, and both were released with the insert which had a full colour image on the front (not black and white). In the first of these both the album version and the “Radio Edit” of the song were present. The second only contained the “Radio Edit”.

U2, Mary J Blige - One - Extended & Remixed @ Mollem Studios


Lyrics
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 nothin' 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 holdin' 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

Songwriters: Paul David Hewson / Adam Clayton / Larry Mullen / Dave Evans
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