San Jacinto Lyrics

The song San Jacinto is performed by Peter Gabriel in the album named Hit in the year 2003 .



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




Peter Gabriel - Hit

Nov 2003

  1. Solsbury Hill
  2. Shock The Monkey
  3. Sledgehammer
  4. Don't Give Up
  5. Games Without Frontiers
  6. Big Time
  7. Burn You Up, Burn You Down
  8. Growing Up
  9. Digging In The Dirt
  10. Blood Of Eden
  11. More Than This
  12. Biko
  13. Steam
  14. Red Rain
  15. Here Comes The Flood
  16. San Jacinto
  17. I Don't Remember
  18. The Rhythm Of The Heat
  19. Love To Be Loved
  20. I Grieve
  21. Family Snapshot
  22. In Your Eyes
  23. The Drop
  24. The Tower That Ate People
  25. Lovetown
  26. Father Son
  27. Signal To Noise
  28. Downside Up
  29. Cloudless


San Jacinto