The One

Kodaline are a Dublin band fronted by Steve Garrigan, who wrote The One in a single day as a last minute gift for the wedding of the band's engineer, Phil Magee, and it was first performed at the ceremony. It was released in February 2015 as the second single from their second album Coming Up for Air and reached number twenty seven in the UK. The lyric is a plain statement that the singer has found the person he was looking for, delivered over piano and a slow, swelling arrangement. Couples choose it because it says the obvious thing well, and because it began life as a gift for a real wedding day.