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Thereâs a piano playing on the ocean floor between Havana and New Orleans
Drumminâ a requiem for the dead and the souls hanging on every poetâs prayer
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Prayinâ 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 drivinâ a â59 making it half way across the Gulf
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
Thereâs 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 âneath 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
âChiefâs in the parish and the drummers in the square
Walkinâ across the fire, walkinâ across the wavesâ
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
Thereâs a sunken bridge âtween you and me
Running past the embassy gates, the SanterÃu00ada shrine
Blood pulsing thru their veins like the waves they remember
Crashing on the Malecón wall
- Album:
- Edge of the Sun
- Maybe On Monday (EP)
- Algiers
- Miscellaneous
- Carried To Dust
- Garden Ruin
- Feast Of Wire
- Hot Rail
- The Black Light
- Spoke
- Aerocalexico
- The Book And The Canal
- Non-Album Releases
- Spiritoso
- Convict Pool
- Bigmouth strikes again
- Carried to Dust (Bonus Track Version)
- Edge of the Sun (Deluxe Edition)
- Edge Of The Sun (Deluxe)
- Edge of the Sun (Deluxe Version)