Sun City Girls - Hector and Chino lyrics

In the land of the damned with thick skin like bark The children were jeering a boy in the park Blind in one eye from the day he was born It was common for all one-eyed boys to be scorned Hector cried from the children's cruel rejections And on top of that he had no depth perception They spit in his face and they gave him no pity But that was the way kids used to act in the city In a city without pity no one cries many tears And they always express way too much of their fears Through their anger which never gets bottled up inside While they gradually develop a tough enough hide Now, Chino was blind as a bat He had little or no use for a map To a city of light in which his sight was his touch And the children all loved him so much The extent of their love was eternal Growing out like a seed from a kernel In his presence they would be very nervous and faint For Chino was revered as a saint And Hector loved Chino so much For Chino had such a refined sense of touch He could pick a lock in the light of the moon And help all his friends rob the neighborhood's rooms They would cut him in for a part of the take Take him out! Live it up! Buy him steak To people with vision robbers all look the same But none of his victims suspected the boy with the red and white cane Life was smooth for his partners in crime With Chino they never feared facing time Their heists worked as smooth as a wheel and a cog And with the loot they'd bought Chino a seeing eye dog One night on the fourth of July One-eyed Hector was so lonely he cried He wanted to go out that night and play But he didn't want to go alone to the fireworks display Now Chino felt sorry for Hector's great sadness And, perhaps to atone for his badness Chino went with him out to the old fairgrounds Even if only to share with him the exploding sounds The tension in the air rose a full latin mile The brilliant display shone upon Hector's smile A rocket shot up like a drunken old fly And it came down and put out Hector's only good eye Hector and Chino strolled home hand in hand Two sad saints negating an unseen land Misfortune is strange: It can make people wise When they find out that if God is love -- love is blind