Nearly two decades ago the popular rock band known as “Creed” released their new song which was simply titled “One”. The purpose of this new song was to shed some light on the various discrepancies that plagued society around that time, many of which are still present and felt today. The song’s title is meant to capture the simplistic yet beautiful ideal of a unified society that treats all its contributing members as “One”. Achieving widespread unification, equality, and justice is an almost universally accepted romanticized goal of society, however it is one never seems to come into fruition. Peace and equality are two ambitious objectives that are continuously strived for but never reached. This glaring reality that injustices that have long existed and continue to thrive sparked a frustration that inspired this song. …show more content…
Instead, the song introduces a much more positive and rationalized call to action. There is a recurring dilemma when people observe there is a lasting problem, such as racism, that persists one generation after another; a raging, often irrational, desire for change and action to be taken. Whenever someone is wronged, or bullied, they have an unfortunate tendency to gradually adopt the same character. This is sort of phenomenon is represented perfectly in the opening lyrics of the song: “Affirmative may be justified take from one give to another the goal is to be unified Take my hand be my brother the payment silenced the masses sanctified by oppression unity took a backseat sliding further into regression”. The overlaying message here is peace amongst individuals can never be reached by force, or affirmative