Sinner in the Sea - Calexico
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 poets 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 Malecn 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 Malecn 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 side
Chiefs 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 Santera shrine
Blood pulsing thru their veins
Like the waves they remember
Crashing on the Malecn wall
