"In God's Country" U2 song lyrics

"In God's Country" U2 song lyrics from The Joshua Tree album

"In God's Country" U2 song lyrics from The Joshua Tree


The song's lyrics convey the United States as a desert rose, a siren whose dress is torn in "ribbons and bows".

The lyric hints at Bono's perceived a lack of political ideas in The West which he later contrasted to the revolution in Nicaragua where he had travelled during the recording of The Joshua Tree. Bullet the Blue Sky was another strongly political song from the album, and together they firmly cemented U2 as a protest band, one very concerned with the unwarranted political interventions of America in other countries.

In God's Country Lyrics

Yeah

Desert sky
Dream beneath a desert sky
The rivers run but soon run dry
We need new dreams tonight

Desert rose
Dreamed I saw a desert rose
Dress torn in ribbons and in bows
Like a siren she calls to me

Sleep comes like a drug
In God's Country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses
In God's Country

Set me alight
We'll punch a hole right through the night
Everyday the dreamers die
To see what's on the other side

She is liberty
And she comes to rescue me
Hope, faith, her vanity
The greatest gift is gold

Sleep comes like a drug
In God's Country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses
In God's Country

Naked flame
She stands with a naked flame
I stand with the sons of Cain
Burned by the fire of love
Burned by the fire of love

Check out the lyrics to Mothers of the Disappeared. You could also try "In God's Country", "Trip Through Your Wires" and the favourite of every New Zealander "One Tree Hill".

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