The Hand Song

This song is as powerful of an Easter song as I can imagine. I would sing it in church but I don't think I'd make it through. It is by the now defunct group Nickel Creek - Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins, Chris Thile)

The boy only wanted to give mother something

and all of her roses had bloomed.

Looking at him as he came rushing in

without knowing her roses were doomed.
All she could see were some thorns buried deep

and tears that he criedas she tended his wounds.

And she knew it was love, it was what she could understand.

He was showing his love and that 's how he hurt his hands.

He still remembers that night as a child on his mother's knee.

She held him close as she opened her bible

and quietly started to read.

Then seeing a picture of Jesus he cried out -

Mama! He's got scars just like me.

And he knew it was love. It was what he could understand.

He was showing his love and that's how he hurt his hands.

Now the boy is grown and moved out on his own

when Uncle Sam comes along.

A foreign affair but our young men are there

and luck had his number drawn.

It wasn't that long til our soldier was gone,

he gave to a friend what he learned from the cross.

But they knew it was love. It was what they could understand.

He was showing his love - and that's how he hurt his hands.