Built To Spill - Cortez The Killer Lyrics
he came dancing across the water with his stallions and guns,looking for the new world and the palace in the sunon the shore lay Montezuma with his coca leaves and pearlsin his halls he often wondered the secrets of the worldand his subjects gathered round him, like the leaves around a treein the clothes of many colors for the angry gods to see,and the women all were beautiful and the men stood straight and strong,they offered life in sacrifice so that others could go on.hate was just a legend and war was never knownpeople worked together and they lifted many stones, andthey carried them to the flat lands, but they died along the way, andthey built up with their bare hands what we still cant do today, andi know shes living there and she loves me to this dayi still cant remember when or how I lost my way.he came dancing across the water cortez cortezwhat a killer