He came dancing across the water   With his galleons and guns   Looking for the new world   In that palace in the sun      On the shore lay Montezuma   With his cocoa leaves and pearls   In his halls, he often wandered   With the secrets of the worlds      And his subjects gathered round him   Like the leaves around a tree   In their 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 known   The people worked together   And they lifted many stones      They carried them to the flatlands   And they died along the way   But they built up with their bare hands   What we still can’t build today      And I know she’s living there   And she loves me to this day   I still can’t remember when   Or how I lost my way      Cortez, Cortez   He came dancing across the water   Cortez, Cortez   What a killer