Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire   Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - run 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   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