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Lyrics for Time Is An Ocean by Paul Simon:
| | | Artist: | Paul Simon |
| | Album: | Songs From The Capeman | | Track: | Time Is An Ocean | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 76 | | | | Lyrics: | SAL
I speak to you in Jesus's name
As Jesus speaks through me,
The evil we do can't
be blamed upon our destiny
I have walked through the valley of
death-row to the
shore
I have stumbled through silvery water to my
savior, my
Salvador!
SALVADOR
It took me four years to learn
I was in prison not in
church.
And two more to begin the book of my soul's search.
SAL & SALVADOR
Time
is an ocean of endless tears
SAL
A wild boy from the streets of El Barrio
An
orphan from the hills of Mayagüez
SALVADOR
And when I wrote my story
The
words flew from the page
And my soul in solitary
Escaped its iron cage.
SAL &
SALVADOR
Time is an ocean of endless tears
SAL
Mama, I got your letter
today
The next time that you write I'll be transferred far away.
I'm leaving Greenhaven's
towers of stone
Where the Latin population will soon be minus
one.
SALVADOR
Time is an ocean of endless tears.
SAL
I know how hard
it's been for you these many years,
You say the Aguinaldo makes you dream of home
Where
once we strolled the beach at El Malecon
Go back don't you worry, I am your grown-up
son.
SALVADOR
The politics of prison are a mirror of the street.
The poor
endure oppression
The police control the state.
Correctional facility
That's
what they call this place
But look around and you will see
The politics of
race.
SAL
A forest and a prison
Where the snow and guards are
white
SALVADOR
If you want to keep your sanity
You'll teach yourself to
write.
You were a child of sixteen
With a twelve-year-old mind
You came here
numb and battered
By the streets I left behind
SAL
I'll take the evil in
me
And turn it into good,
Though all your institutions
Never thought I could
So
now I'll turn to say goodbye
SALVADOR
I'll keep your image in my
eye
SAL & SALVADOR
I turn around to say
goodbye
SALVADOR
I'll keep your image with me till the day I
die
SAL
& SALVADOR
Time is an ocean of endless tears
Lead Vocal-Marc
Anthony
Lead Vocal-Ruben Blades
Acoustic Guitar-Paul Simon
Piano-Oscar
Hernandez
Guitar-Steve Cropper
Guitar-Vincent Nguini
Bass-Ruben Rodriguez
Conga,
Guira-Milton Cardona
Drums-Robby Ameen
Soprano Saxophone-Bobby
Franceschini
Flute-Oriente Lopez
Bass Clarinet-Pablo Calogero
Trumpet-David
Rodriguez
Flugel-Barry Danielian
Trombone-Ozzie Melendez
Violin-Krista
Feeney
Violin-Paul Peabody
Viola-Juliet Hafner
Cello-Laura Bontrager
Horn
Arrangement-Oriente Lopez
Orchestration-Stanley Silverman | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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