U2 - The Hands That Built America (Official Music Video)

REMASTERED IN HD! Filmed on 9th May 2002 at the band’s studio on Hanover Quay in Dublin, and directed by Maurice Linnane. ’The Hands That Built America’ was released as a single from The Best Of 1990-2000 and also featured on the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film Gangs Of New York. Subscribe to the U2 channel: Watch more U2 videos: Explore the music of U2: Sign up to the U2 mailing list: Follow U2 on… Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Official Website: #U2 #TheHandsThatBuiltAmerica #Remastered 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
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