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Lyrics and Love

by Bald Man on June 9th, 2008

I’ve been playing around a bit with my guitar, and lately I’ve been on a U2 kick. I looked up the tab to One a week or two ago.

Stop right there.

I bet most of us think of it as a love song. Something romantic, right? Well, have you listened to the lyrics lately?

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you
Now you got someone to blame

Or how about these:

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

That’s not romantic! But there there is stuff like this:

We’re one
But we’re not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other

Accursed juxtaposition!

But then again, that’s a lot like love isn’t it? Love is vulnerability. It it opening yourself up to another person and giving them the potential to hurt you.

Love is surgery. Only by opening our skin and going inside out bodies can the surgeon perform life saving works. But in that same moment - naked, unconsious, with our insides exposed - we are the most vulnerable.

We’re one
But we’re not the same
We hurt each other
Then we do it again

So then maybe it is a pretty good love song.

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