What does it mean?

There are many meanings a song may have: the artist's intended meaning, the listener's perspective, or the "perhaps" unintended meaning. Here is one song to consider...U2's "One"

Is it getting better (is your time here on the rise?)
Or do you feel the same (or are you stagnant, not changing or evolving?)
Will it make it easier on you now (do you need help in some way?)
You got someone to blame (is there a finger to point towards others?)
You say...

One love (all we need)
One life (all we have)
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 (if not nurtured and rekindled, LOVE will surely go away!)

Did I disappoint you (what could I have done better?)
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth (a tough experience?)
You act like you never had love (or is it too tough to admit you have?)
And you want me to go without (selfishness?)
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light (why hash over old things?)
We're one, but we're not the same (we are in this together, like or unlike)
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other (brotherly love, help fellow mankind)
One... (we are one people...worldwide, despite our obvious differences)

Have you come here for forgiveness (come or go to the source of your troubles)
Have you come to raise the dead (bring hope to those who have lost?)
Have you come here to play Jesus (is there any other messiah?)
To the lepers in your head (for all your ills and misgivings)

Did I ask too much (could it be love?)
More than a lot
You gave me nothing (something I never should have asked for?)
Now it's all I got (better to have loved, than to have not)

We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again (even though we may find strife in our lives, love keeps coming back because of how important it is!)
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law (love, epecially for al lthe right reasons is why we exist!)
You ask me to enter (you say you love me, and want it in return)
But then you make me crawl (unrealistic expectations?)
And I can't be holding on
To what you got (I can only control what I do, not eanyone else)
When all you got is hurt (
One love
One blood
One life (we are ALL interconnected in some way, espcially in the eyes of God)
You got to do what you should (THE GOLDEN RULE!)
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers (we are all...)
One life (the only one we need)
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other (Love your fellow man and woman, for eternity)
One...life

One (the only number!)