Red Hill Mining Town

by U2

From the album: The Joshua Tree

Track 6 of 11 on The Joshua Tree (1987).

Duration: 04:52

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Lyrics for Red Hill Mining Town

From father to son The blood runs thin Ooh, see the faces frozen still Against the wind The seam is split The coal-face cracked The lines are long There's no going back Through hands of steel And heart of stone Our labour day Has come and gone They leave me holdin' on In Red Hill Town See the lights go down on Hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to The glass is cut The bottle run dry Our love runs cold In the caverns of the night We're wounded by fear Injured in doubt. I can lose myself You I can't live without Yeah, you keep me holdin' on In Red Hill Town See the lights go down on Hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to On to We scorch the earth Set fire to the sky And we stooped so low To reach so high A link is lost The chain undone We wait all day For night to come And it comes like a hunter, child I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to We see love, slowly stripped away Our love has seen it's better day Hangin' on Lights go down on Red Hill The lights go down on Red Hill The lights go down on Red Hill The lights go down on Red Hill Town

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  2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  3. With Or Without You
  4. Bullet The Blue Sky
  5. Running To Stand Still
  6. Red Hill Mining Town
  7. In God's Country
  8. Trip Through Your Wires
  9. One Tree Hill
  10. Exit
  11. Mothers Of The Disappeared