"One" by U2 (Chord Chart)

Song Info

  • Key: A minor,C major
  • Chord Family: C
  • Skills: Basic Strumming, Open Chords

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INTRO
Am---/Dsus2---/Fmaj7---/G---/ 

Verse 1
Am                 Dsus2
   Is it getting better? 
Fmaj7              G
   Or do you feel the same? 
Am                 Dsus2
   Will it make it easier on you now 
Fmaj7                G
   you got someone to blame?

You say...

CHORUS
C           Am 
   One love.   One life. 
Fmaj7                 C
   When it's one need   in the night. 
C           Am
   One love.   We get to share it. 
Fmaj7                     C                   Am
   Leaves you baby if you   don't care for it.

>---/Dsus2---/Fmaj7---/G---/

VERSE 2
Am            Dsus2
   Did I disappoint you? 
Fmaj7                           G
   Or leave a bad taste in your mouth? 
Am                        Dsus2
   You act like you never had love 
Fmaj7                        G
   and you want me to go without. 

Well it's...
CHORUS
C            Am 
   Too late.    Tonight. 
Fmaj7                    C
   To drag the past out into the light. 
C                      Am
   We're one, but we're not the same. 
         Fmaj7                 C        
We get to carry each other, carry each other.  One.


SOLO--------------------|
>---/Am---/Fmaj7---/C---/


VERSE 3
Am                             Dsus2
   Have you come here for forgiveness? 
Fmaj7                          G
   Have you come to raise the dead? 
Am                            Dsus2
   Have you come here to play Jesus 
Fmaj7                    G
   to the lepers in your head?


BREAKDOWN CHORUS
C                      Am
   Did I ask too much?    More than a lot?
Fmaj7                           C
   You gave me nothing, now it's all I got 
C                     Am
   We're one, but we're not the same.
       Fmaj7                     C
Well we hurt each other, then we do it again. 
       C                   Am
You say love is a temple, love a higher law. 
C                 Am
Love is a temple, love the higher law. 
    C                    G
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl.
    G                   Fmaj7
And I can't be holding on to what you got 
                      C
when all you got is hurt.


CHORUS
(C)          Am
   One love.   One blood.
Fmaj7                   C
   One life. You got to do what you should.
C            Am
   One life,    with each other. 
Fmaj7       C
   Sisters,   brothers.
C                     Am7
   One life, but we're not the same. 
         Fmaj7
We get to carry each other, 
 C
carry each other 
C     Am
One 
Fmaj7
One

C---/C---/Am---/Fmaj7---/   (X4)

END ON C---/
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