Lyrics for Salvador Sanchez as interpreted by sethbrown

Salvador Sanchez Lyrics
Salvador Sanchez arrived and vanished
Only twenty-three with so much speed
Owning the highway

Mexico City bred so many
But none quite like him sweet warrior
Pure magic matador

Pancho Villa would never rest
'Til 1925 he closed his eyes
'Til Manilla stars would rise

Gozo of the Phillipines, choirs and angels sing
Ukelele strings play for his legend
Italy had a king

How have they gone
Fell by leather
So alone
Bound together

Benny "kid" Paret came a good way
Climbed to the grey sky to raise his hands
Stopped by the better man

Eyes of Los Rios cry for suns
Lost on distant shores, unforeseen horrors
Struck and delivered him

How have they gone
Fell by leather
So alone
Bound together

Why have they gone
Fell by leather
So alone
All bound together

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PhiloMath
08-17-2006

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Magnificent. It's too tied in with the specific sports theme to ring with metaphors of romantic loves and losses, but I think the topic is really just the bones for the guitar work to raise it to a mythic level; hear those guitars grind, groan, creak and ache the stories of these deceased, valiant young men.

Kozelek, you are a fucking genius.

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prollydajalopy
09-09-2006

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A-fucking-men. Jesus, I get lost in this song every time.

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thesableantelope
01-17-2007

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epic.

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OdinUSMC
02-13-2007

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So here's some info on those boxers in the song.

Salvador was an amazing boxer who consistently beat better boxers. He died in a car crash in '82
Pancho Villa had an ulcerated tooth going into a fight, the morning of he had it pulled and was told not to fight, but he did. Villa spent most of the fight using one hand to protect his face and lost. A few days later he went to get his tooth checked and they found three more infected, so they pulled them and told him to take it easy, he instead went around town drinking and a few days later ended up in the hospital and died at 24 years old.
Benny Paret fought Emile Griffith and during the sixth round took a massive pummeling he never recovered from he slipped into a coma and ten days later died. Because of that Boxing wasn’t shown on network TV for 10 years

Truth be told I think its better acoustic, gets the full weight of the song

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OdinUSMC
11-01-2007

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Hmmm

Eyes of Los Rios cry for suns
Lost on distant shores, unforeseen horrors
Struck and delivered him

I don't get it. Los Rios is in Ecuador. Neither Paret or Griffith (the boxer who killed him) were from Ecuador. Distant Shores? So confused...any ideas?

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sideshow
07-26-2009

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Cead1 has it dead on.

Ghosts of the Philippines
Choirs and angels sing
Ukelele strings play for his legend
Iloilo King

and then

Eyes of Las Villas cry for sons
lost on distant shores; unforeseen horrors
Struck and delivered him.

Thats the song ladies and gentlemen, mystery solved


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