Sinner In The Sea Lyrics - Algiers - Calexico

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 

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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 

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