Released: December 17, 2002
Songwriter: The Edge (Guitarist) Adam Clayton Larry Mullen Jr Bono
Producer: William Orbit
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
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
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- Summer Rain
- Staring at the Sun (New Mix)
- Numb (New Mix)
- Lemon (Jeep Mix)
- If God Will Send His Angels (Big Yam Mix)
- Gone (New Mix)
- Mysterious Ways (Solar Plexus Club Mix)
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Gun Mix)
- Salome (Zooromancer Remix)
- Electrical Storm - William Orbit Mix - Radio Edit
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- Until the End of the World
- The Hands That Built America
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- Electrical Storm
- Even Better Than the Real Thing
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
- Lady with the Spinning Head (Extended Dance Mix)
- Miss Sarajevo
- Mysterious Ways
- North And South Of The River
- One
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- The First Time
- The Fly
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix)
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- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- Beautiful Day
- Get Out of Your Own Way
- Song for Someone
- Every Breaking Wave
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- You’re the Best Thing About Me
- The Troubles
- Ordinary Love
- Vertigo
- New Year’s Day
- American Soul
- Bad
- The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
- All I Want Is You
- Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
- Summer of Love
- Raised By Wolves
- Iris (Hold Me Close)
- Invisible