Brilliant Bry *：歡樂吧！生命

這個時點很特別。這兩首歌聽起來也特別有意義。這兩首歌都是U2的作品。「One」號稱有著U2最美麗的歌詞；而「With Or Without You」則可以說是U2最熟為人知的歌曲。我選的這個版本是前NKOTB的Joey McIntyre在紐約的現場演唱版本。他很有技巧地把兩首歌串在一起。

我想說的話，雖然是針對兩件事情，但是同樣一個概念就可以貫穿。

關於台灣最近倒扁要繞行全台這一件事情。先不論你是支持倒扁還是挺扁，但是當我聽見因為擔心有暴力行為者會來滋事所以不希望和平示威者在自己管轄範圍之中舉辦活動這種聲音的時候，我就覺得這些地方政府已經本末倒置到一個離譜的地步了！什麼時候開始，在台灣的自由除了以不侵犯他人的自由為自由之外，還加上了一條以「別人不侵犯自己的自由」才能夠為自由？

除了各種爭議已經極度誇張地被升高為族群之間的鬥爭、愛不愛台灣之間的鬥爭這種法西斯主義之外，現在又多了這樣一種詭異論調！好吧！我們真的要讓台灣成為准法西斯社會嗎？

另外一點，是關於三十日台北市同玩節的遊行。我衷心企盼這個活動的成功。但是我們也要小心某些保守勢力的反撲。那些口口聲聲高舉著「愛」以及「不歧視」大旗子的團體，卻在言語之間沒有任何的尊重，只是一些似是而非的花言巧語，希望能夠「帶領」同志「回歸正途」。

我想，U2的這首歌足夠回應這兩種「荒誕的怪現狀」了！希望有心的人一起好好聆聽，欣賞。週末愉快！

Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame
You say
One love
One life
When it's one you need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leave 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

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

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

Did I ask too much?
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I've got
We're one but we're not the same
Well we hurt each other
Then we do it again
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
And I can't keep holding on
To what you got
When all you've got is hurt

One love
One life
One blood
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers

One love
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other

One...

My hands are tied
My body's bruised, she got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you