San Jacinto (Live 1982)

Thank you very much

Thick cloud, steam rising, hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me, buffalo robe, sage in bundle, rub 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

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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, Sit 'n' Bull steakhouse, white men dream
A rattle in the old man's sack, say
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 drink from the stream
We will breathe from the air
Hold the line, hold the line
Hold the line, hold the line
Hold the line, hold the line