One by U2 is featured in Laryngitis, the eighteenth episode of Season One. It is sung by the New Directions and Sean Fretthold (episode version only). Finn and Rachel lead the song, with Sean (episode version only) and Mercedes.
Finn decides to do this song in honor of his and Rachel's friend Sean, a teenaged ex-football player who retired due to injuries. It starts and ends with Sean and Rachel singing together in his room, but is intercut with scenes of the New Directions performing in the auditorium. It is the final song featured in the episode.
Lyrics[]
Rachel:
Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You've got someone to blame
Finn:
(and Rachel: 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
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
Finn and Rachel:
Well, it's too late, tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One... (Mercedes: Yeah)
One... (Mercedes: Oh)
Finn:
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
Rachel:
Oh, and 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
We get to hurt each other
Now we do it again
You say,
Rachel with New Directions:
Love is a temple, love is a higher law
Love is a temple, love is a higher law
Rachel with New Directions harmonizing:
You ask for me to enter, but then you make me crawl
Rachel with New Directions:
And I can't keep holding on to what you got
When all you got is hurt
Finn and Rachel with New Directions (New Directions):
One love (One love)
One blood (One blood)
One life you got to do what you should
One life (One life)
With each other (each other)
Sisters (sisters)
And my (And my)
Brothers
Rachel (with Finn):
(One life) but we're (not the same)
(We get to carry each other
Carry each other)
Finn and Rachel:
One,
One, one (Mercedes: one)
One, (Mercedes: We give)
One (Mercedes: Ooooh)
Rachel:
Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You've got someone to blame
Sean:
(and Rachel: 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
Finn:
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
Finn and Rachel:
Well, it's too late, tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One... (Mercedes: Yeah)
One... (Mercedes: Oh)
Finn:
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
Rachel:
Oh, and 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
We get to hurt each other
Now we do it again
You say,
Rachel with New Directions:
Love is a temple, love is a higher law
Love is a temple, love is a higher law
Rachel with New Directions harmonizing:
You ask for me to enter, but then you make me crawl
Rachel with New Directions:
And I can't keep holding on to what you got
When all you got is hurt
Finn and Rachel with New Directions (New Directions):
One love (One love)
One blood (One blood)
One life you got to do what you should
One life (One life)
With each other (each other)
Sisters (sisters)
And my (And my)
Brothers
Rachel (with Finn):
(One life) but we're (not the same)
(We get to carry each other
Carry each other)
One
Rachel and Sean:
One
One, one
One,
One
Trivia[]
- This is one of the songs where someones part/s in the studio version was sung by someone else in the show similar to: A House Is Not a Home, Imagine, Time Warp, The Most Wonderful Day of the Year, You're the Top, You Get What You Give, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Drive My Car, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Pompeii, Home and Listen to Your Heart.
- There is one scene during their performance when Mercedes and Santana are wrapping their arms around one another, suggesting that they are over the feud over Puck.
- Mercedes and Quinn are the only ones with their shirts untucked.
Gallery[]
Videos[]
U2 - One - Anton Corbjin Version
Glee - One Full Performance
One- glee cast w lyrics
Glee - One (Acapella)