1509

Prologue

An undescovered uncharted land, free from the world, free from eastern blood
A mighty civilisation, an empire of wealth and strong belief
Anchient and untouched by spanish steel or christian words

Night fell and 10 years past
There had become seven omens
Fortelling destruction of the land, an invasion
A sign in the eastern sky
Fire, lightening, floods
The lake boiled before their eyes
Fire struck the ocean
Innocent cries echoed through the night
An unknown creature in the sea

There were soon rumours that ships had come to the shores of the aztec world
Speaking a foreign tongue, baring the flag of a foreign king of a foreign land
With false right to take our land, our homes, our freedom
Blood will be shed

Verse 1

An armada of ships heads the Yukatan straights
Fight for the king and claim this new land
Emerge from the mist baring nothing but words
An uncertain people a heretic world

Go to them read them this insult, false right to their homes
Killed 20 men murdered by night
Defeat is the price for expecting no fight
But they will return 1000 strong

Bridge

Omens fortelling terror, conquer this new land
Strangers invade our land
Fearsome savages, retreat, terrify, no chance
The Aztec spear against Spanish steel

Chorus

You look to these lands for greed, gold and glory
To remove the keystone supporting their might
The signs in the night sky fortelling their downfall
To strike like a serpent misguiding their trust

For hundreds of years this battle will rage on
Burning their bridges destroying their past
For hundreds of years this battle will rage on

Murder, Plunder, Deceipt
Power, Conquer, Blood will be shed

Verse 2

Our leader submits to these dangerous men
Upturn these marauders remove his false crown
Rebel the emperor stoned to the ground
Betray Cortes kills him for greed and for power

The Spanish hoard cast from their grasp of deciept
Warriors lineing the bridge to escape
Burdened by their own greed weighed down by gold
Six hundred conquistadors drowned in the sand
Bridge

Betray, Fortune, Glory
Rebel, Murder, Massacre, Folley
Warriors stand their ground, Escape, Abandoned, No way

Chorus

You look to these lands for greed, gold and glory
To remove the keystone supporting their might
The signs in the night sky fortelling their downfall
To strike like a serpent misguiding their trust

For hundreds of years this battle will rage on
Burning their bridges destroying their past
For hundreds of years this battle will rage on

Murder, Plunder, Deceipt
Power, Conquer, All hope is lost in the sand

This empire will crumble at our feet
We men suffer from a disease that only gold can cure

Bridge

Revenge, unstoppable, enslave, laugh at them, conquer
Crush them, iron fist, besiege, no mercy, victory
Mighty, spanish greed, empire, raised to the ground
Omens fortelling terror, conquer this new land
In 1509

(Simon Dawson)

(Copyright Pantheon 2010)