Sinner In The Sea

Album: Algiers (2012)
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  • 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 thru their veins like the waves they remember
    Crashing on the Malecón wall Writer/s: JOHN CONVERTINO, JOSEPH G BURNS
    Publisher: Audiam, Inc., BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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