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