He came dancin' across the water   With galleons and his guns   Lookin' 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   And 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 dancin' across the water   Cortez, Cortez   What a killer   What a killer