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San Jacinto Lyrics

Artist: Peter Gabriel
Album: Plays Live

Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - run on skin
Outside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sun
Red paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has begun
Something moving in - I taste it in my mouth and in my heart
It feels like dying - slow - letting go of life

Medicine man lead me up though town - Indian ground -
so far down
Cut up land - each house - a pool - kids wearing water
wings - drink in cool
Follow dry river bed - watch Scout and Guides make
pow-wow signs
Past Geronimo's disco - Sit 'n' Bull steakhouse - white
men dream
A rattle in the old man's sack - look at mountain top -
keep climbing up
Way above us the desert snow - white wind blow

I hold the line - the line of strength that pulls me through
the fear
San Jacinto - I hold the line
San Jacinto - the poison bite and darkness take my sight -
I hold the line
And the tears roll down my swollen cheek - think I'm losing
it - getting weaker
I hold the line - I hold the line
San Jacinto - yellow eagle flies down from the sun -
from the sun

We will walk - on the land
We will breathe - of the air
We will drink - from the stream
We will live - hold the line

Comments/Interpretations
by Couz on 6/3/2008 11:31am Always my favorite live song by Peter Gabriel and surely one of the most visual lyrics ever written.A hopefull song that ends with a simple message....we will go on.
by JRB on 6/4/2008 6:01pm This is a great song that documents a conversation that Peter Gabriel had with a Native American he met while staying at a hotel.
by Galileus_76 on 6/10/2008 1:46pm Awesome live song, always a favorite. When everything goes absurd or dark, hold the line.
by Bridgeen on 9/25/2008 11:19am yeah, love this song. Working on illustrating it at the moment. Its very sad.
by Jonathan on 12/15/2008 10:38am Beautiful, the best lyrics, harmony to meditate too. Love is great.
by Xandalis on 12/25/2008 5:07pm I have never heard a more powerful source of music and message from any other artist. I can only hope he stays with us for many more years.
by Memo on 3/24/2009 10:05pm una de las mejores canciones de Gabriel, me llega al alma
by Barbara on 6/24/2009 7:42am Positively amazing, moving, gives the cold shivers
by Belgaer on 7/28/2009 8:52pm Dark, yet comforting. Just how I like it. Am I the only one who thinks that the character singing the song dies at the end? Just from the change in his tone of voice and the ending notes.
by Mike on 9/3/2009 4:04pm I too think the character dies, because if you look at the lyrics, they do not only tell about the culture of the white man overwhelming that of the apaches, but to me also the story of an apache man who carries a rattlesnake with him to a mountain top, and let's it bite him so he can then die at peace.
by Leslie on 10/17/2009 10:45pm Could be, but I think the poison bite and darkness are metaphors for what the white man did (and does) to the indigenous peoples and other living things. The prediction that they would once again be able to drink from the streams comes from a Native American prophecy yet to be fulfilled (but coming soon to a "reality" near you!).
by christy on 11/3/2009 10:58pm Powerful song powerful artist....love the guy...seen him live in concert 1982 selhurst park crystal place london.The point depot Dublin 1993 and Marley psrk 2006 Dublin...I rate myself a very luck man having seen this Great 3 times live..Peter the Great.
by Lazarus on 11/17/2009 10:40pm Anyone know what ""San Jacinto"" has to do with the lyrics? Seems far out of place.

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