SAN JACINTO

Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle [bad word] on skin
Outside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sun
Red paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has begun
Something moving in - I taste it in my mouth and in my heart
It feels like dying - slow - letting go of life

Medicine man lead me up though town - Indian ground - 
so far down
Cut up land - each house - a pool - kids wearing water 
wings - drink in cool
Follow dry river bed - watch Scout and Guides make 
pow-wow signs
Past Geronimo's disco - Sit 'n' Bull steakhouse - white 
men dream
rattle in the old man's sack - look at mountain top - 
keep climbing up
Way above us the desert snow - white wind blow

I hold the line - the line of strength that pulls me through 
the fear
San Jacinto - I hold the line
San Jacinto - the poison bite and darkness take my sight - 
I hold the line
And the tears roll down my swollen cheek - think I'm losing 
it - getting weaker
I hold the line - I hold the line
San Jacinto - yellow eagle flies down from the sun - 
from the sun

We will walk - on the land
We will breathe - of the air
We will drink - from the stream
We will live - hold the line