U2 Lyrics

Album: Unknown

The Hands That Built America Lyrics

Oh my love

 It's a long way we've come

 From the freckled hills to the steel and glass canyons

 From the stony fields, to hanging steel from the sky

 From digging in our pockets, for a reason not to say goodbye

 

 These are the hands that built America

 Russian, Sioux, Dutch, Hindu

 Polish, Irish, German, Italian

 

 I last saw your face in a watercolour sky

 As sea birds argued a long goodbye

 I took your kiss on the spray of the new line star

 You gotta live with your dreams

 Don't make them so hard

 

 And these are the hands that built America

 These are the hands that built America

 The Irish, the Blacks, the Chinese, the Jews

 Korean, Hispanic, Muslim, Indian

 

 Of all of the promises

 Is this one we can keep?

 Of all of the dreams

 Is this one still out of reach?

 

 Its early fall

 There's a cloud on the New York skyline

 Innocence dragged across a yellow line

 These are the hands that built America

 These are the hands that built America