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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.

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