Calexico House Of Valparaiso Lyrics

House Of Valparaiso Lyrics

Dialing in a forgotten voice

(coming in like waves rolling off the
coast)

Sweeping through illegal ports

(rising from the depths
falling off the tongue)

Ships drifting out of tune

(coming in like
waves rolling off the coast)



Many, many more, sculpting the
shoreline

Etching the harbor and the people 

Who’ve stayed
afloat



(coming in like waves rolling off the coast)

Dialing
in a forgotten voice

(rising from the depths falling off the tongue)

Sweeping through illegal ports

(coming in like waves rolling off the
coast)

Ships drifting out of tune

(can’t stop the waves coming like
a ghost)



Is that your shape in the foam of the sea

After all
these years coming home to me



La Chascona (hearts to ocean) vows
unbroken

Lying in the bath fully clothed

Ready for the ocean’s
wake

The tears won’t wash away

What her eyes can’t erase



Not safe to say in her native tongue 

A radio voice drowning out

The general’s song lingering on

A raft made of books from a driftwood
house

Returns to the waves