Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Sinner in the Sea, artist - Calexico. Date of issue: 06.09.2012
Song language: English
Sinner in the Sea |
| 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 Malecón 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 Malecón 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 Santería shrine |
| Blood pulsing through their veins like the waves they remember |
| Crashing on the Malecón wall |