All the way from America

Holding out your hand

You pinned your colours to the mast

Pinned them high up in the sky

Look what you do to me

My hands keep thumping waltz in triple time

She wrote

All the way from America

Arriving just as planned

Passing through the blocks and alleyways

The avenues, I'm crying

Look what you do to me

Look what your tender hands have done this time

And I say

Don't take the silence too hard

Don't take the silence too hard

Your absence lasts through every passing year

Don't take the silence too hard

All the way from America

Straining with my eyes

To see the hours stretched out before me

As I cross the ocean line

Look what you do for me

My hands are ruby warm and I feel fine

And I sail

To the home of erotica

Pictured on the stand

Kneel down and pray you take no burdens

Out of the promised land

Into the mystery

Your eyes are full of tales of idle hands

She says

Don't take the silence too hard

Don't take the silence too hard

Your absence lasts through every passing year

Don't take the silence too hard

(solo)

All the way from America

Holding out your hand

You pinned your colours to the mast

Pinned them high up in the sky

Look what you do to me

My hands keep thumping waltz in triple time

Don't take the silence too hard

Don't take the silence too hard

Don't take the silence too hard

Don't take the silence too hard

Don't take

Don't take

Don't take

Don't take

Don't take the silence too hard