I have certainly met a hundred people who’ve had it at their weddings.
“The song is a bit twisted,” Bono explained in Neil McCormick’s U2 By U2, “which is why I could never figure out why people want it at their weddings. “One” isn’t about love, after all it’s about resignation. Keeping things deliberately vague, Bono lobs his inquiries into thin air, aiming them at his band, his spouse, the Edge’s estranged wife, or maybe even none of the above. Each verse poses new questions – Is it getting better? Did I disappoint you? Have you come here for forgiveness? – without offering any answers in return. On an album filled with irony, sex and self-deprecation, “One” cuts through to the heart of a relationship.
