The Church - Cortez The Killer lyrics

rate me

He came dancing across the water

With galleons and his guns

Looking for the new world

A palace in the sun

On the shore lay Montezuma

With his cocoa leaves and his pearls

In his halls he often wondered

With the secrets of the worlds

And his subjects gathered 'round him

Like the leaves around a tree

In their coats of many colors

For the angry gods to see

And the women all were beautiful

The men were tall and strong

He offered life in sacrifice

So that others could go on

War was just a legend

Hate was quite unknown

And the people worked together

And they lifted many stones

And they carried them to the flatlands

And they died along the way

But they raised up with their bare hands

What we still can't do today

And I know she's living there

She loves me to this day

I still don't know where

Or how I lost my way

He came dancing across the water

Cortez, Cortez

What a killer

What a killer