( – promoted by navajo)
I am curious if anyone has heard the song ‘San Jacinto’ by Peter Gabriel and what their thoughts are about the song.
‘San Jacinto’ tells the story of an Apache boy coming of age through a rite of passage ritual in the San Jacinto mountains in California. It illustrates the fight of all Native Americans to maintain traditions and a way of life against the relentless onslaught of the Europeans.
[Vid embed and lyrics posted by navajo, 12.20.10]
Thick cloud – steam rising – hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me – buffalo robe – sage in bundle – rub 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 through 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
A 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
There were about this song.
The comments are interesting, some mention gaming and casinos, you know the typical off putting opinion and some mention the common noble savage mythic perspective people have of us.
I’ve never heard of it, thanks for posting it here.