Sinner In The Sea

There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
Between Havana and New Orleans
Drumming a requiem for the dead
And the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Praying 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 driving a '59
Making it half way across the Gulf
Stranded on a 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
Side
Chief's in the parish
And the drummers in the square
Walking across the fire
Walking across the waves
Sinner on the rock
Sinner on the sea
And there's a sunken bridge
'tween you and me
Running past the embassy gates
And the Santería shrine
Blood pulsing through their veins
Like the waves they remember
Crashing on the Malecón wall