Peter Gabriel / San Jacinto
Peter Gabriel (4) (1982, Charisma / Virgin)
Des chapelets de notes tintinnabulent, volutes incessantes qui finissent par devenir aussi obsédantes qu'un ballet de mouches sous un soleil trop éblouissant. Frottements métalliques et soupirs se répondent, ponctués de doubles notes graves à retardement. Drôle d'impression, comme si l'on voyait l'horizon blanc du désert se brouiller et devenir liquide sous l'effet de l'air trop chaud. Le refrain explose comme l'ultime sursaut de défi du dernier des Mohicans. Puis le le vent du soir disperse cet étrange attrape-rêve dans les ténèbres.
24 avril 2010
Vidéo / San Jacinto
Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope Tour, 1986.
Auteurs
Textes et musique : Peter Gabriel.
Paroles
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 Scouts 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 say – 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 vite 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
