Sinner In The Sea by Calexico
Sinner In The Sea lyrics
There�s a piano playing on the ocean floor between Havana and New Orleans
Drummin� a requiem for the dead and the souls hanging on every poet�s
prayer
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Prayin� to the Lord please shelter me
But the ground keeps shaking, water is boiling on fire
Blood pulsing through their veins like the waves crashing on the
Malec�n wall
Clocks stopping at twelve on the eve of a forgotten war
Luis drivin� a �59 making it half way across the Gulf
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
There�s a wall in the ocean between you and me
Dreams of reaching dry land, talking to the fortune teller
Prisoners pounding the jail like the waves crashing on the Malec�n
wall
Someone lost an eye, someone lost the truth
Trying to save face, oh �neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side
�Chief�s in the parish and the drummers in the square
Walkin� across the fire, walkin� across the waves�
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
There�s a sunken bridge �tween you and me
Running past the embassy gates, the Santer�a shrine
Blood pulsing thru their veins like the waves they remember
Crashing on the Malec�n wall
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