A Special Song for Veterans Day from The Josh Hatcher Band – American Sand

Many years ago, I wrote this song as a tribute to the veterans who served our country.

When this song was recorded at a live concert, our drummer was Chris Stavish, a Marine Corps Vet.

The song has a lot of meaning to me, as I’ve had many members of my family and many friends who served our country, and I just wanted to talk about their heroism, and their desire to come home to “American Sand”

American Sand

by Josh Hatcher

I’ve been fighting in this desert for way too long
And I’m starting to feel forgotten but I know I got be strong
Cuz I want to make it back home… back to my own land
I wanna pick up a fistful of American Sand.
When I get off that plane I’m gonna fall down and kiss the dirt
Of this land that gave me freedom long before it gave me birth

I can’t wait to get back to American Sand
I’m going home when this war is over to American Sand.

Back home I’ve got a family. A wife and a couple kids
How I long to see their faces. To give my wife a kiss.
Cuz everything I’ve got’s in a America and I ache to get it back
This foreign soil is empty and hope is looking black
This kid I’ve known since Basic just died the other day
And just before it happened, I heard him say.

I can’t wait to get back to American Sand
I’m going home when this war is over to American Sand.

Some say we should be here… fighting someone else’s war.
And it’s their right to say it that I’m fighting for
But all this bickering on the homefront over whether we are right
Doesn’t help me at this moment. Doesn’t help me win this fight.
I’ve seen things in battle that keep me up at night
The only thing I hold on to – that gets me through the night
Is American Sand —

I can’t wait to get back to American Sand
I’m going home when this war is over to American Sand.