San Jacinto (Live) [Athens 1987]

[Verse 1]

Thick cloud, steam rising

Hissing stone on sweat lodge fire

Around me, buffalo roam

Sage in bundle, rub on skin

Outside, cold air

Stand and 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

[Interlude]

[Refrain]

Hyena wakan tanka

Hyena wakan tanka

Hyena wakan tanka

Hyena wakan tanka

[Verse 2: Peter Gabriel]

Medicine man lead me up through 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 Scouts and Guides make pow-wow signs

Past Geronimo's disco

Sittin' Bull steakhouse, white men dream

A rattle in the old man's sack, see

Look at mountain top, keep climbing up

Way above us the desert snow

White wind blow

[Bridge: Peter Gabriel]

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

[Interlude]

[Outro: Peter Gabriel]

We will walk on the land

We will drink from the stream

We will breathe of the air

We will live, hold the line

Hold the line, hold the line