It's about an old relationship falling apart.
"Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same"
Obviously a question, any progress, any hope yet?
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
I know I made a mistake, will you use that blame to break us up?
"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 "
Its what love should be. He forgot that when he made a mistake, he didn't take care of their love
"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...
"
Again about his mistake, he left "a bad taste in your mouth". She acts like he never loved her and now she wants him to go without love. She is leaving him.
"Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light"
Its double in meaning. Literally late night discussions about the relationship. Yet another talk. Its too late in the evening for this again. On another level it
also means its too late to save the relationship. Past the point of no return, talkning about the past won't heal the wounds anymore
"We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One..."
We are together, not yet broken completely apart. We both feel blue and both need a shoulder for our tears. Tohether and alone at the same time.
"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 "
It's about the reason he came to talk yet again. Why did you come to talk to me tonight?
Do you want to be forviven for the things you said and did that hurt me? Did you come just to drag the past into the light again!? Did you come to say you are not to blame, that its my fault? Dont its just your ghosts haunting you, your thoughts in your head ("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"
He asks forgiveness, he knows its a lot to ask. She will not give it to him. Now he is alone. "we're one" He thinks they should be together "one", but instead they are both alone now. "but we're not the same". They don't agree. He wants to be together. He is hurting for that reason.
"Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again"
A lot of arguing and doing things you shoudnt. Both parties carry blame for wrecking the relationship.
"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"
She says love is unity (one). She at some point agreed to try saving the relationship again, but he feels she did not forgive him, she punished him and thus ruined the chance to make it work.
"And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt"
He knows he hurt her and he can't take more of her blameing him, hurting him.
"One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should "
You only get one life, ie one chance. Do the right thing.
"One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life"
And not just do the right thing by your woman, but also in all other importaint relationsships in your life, ie family and friends (sister and brother can also mean friends, as in afro slang)
"But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...life
One"
We are not the same, we have different strengths. Support each other, you can't always be strong. Help when you see a weak moment those you love. Its important because you only get "one life". and because you can become "one" with the one you love.
