Children play in a garden of eden
Hunger away, food never eaten
Storing treasures in the sand
While we curse the promised land
Like we've never been

Run like thieves, die for riches
Guilded doors and blood-soaked ditches
But the colors of the trees are meant for you and me
If we ever see

Holy land
Holy land
Holy land
In the palms of our hands

You want a soul, find a soul full of kisses
Who won't let you go, who knows what your wish is
Even when you fawn or fight
He'll see you in the light
That you saw within

Holy land
Holy land
Holy land
In the palms of our hands

Holy land
Holy land
Holy land
In the palms of our hands

I went away, to be all by myself where
Children don't play, hearts hide too scared
I would never have believed
It still would follow me
Like a prayer shot south

Sat on a cold and lonely thruway
Fought every old and every new way
Til I looked out of the glass
And I felt it fallin' fast
Out of my mouth