Conquistadors

Lyrics

Feet touch dirt, hands touch the sky
 Clothes we made hang from a line
 We've watched as siblings die and pray we never will
 Sing these work songs silently
 Melodies of a thousand years
 Add a new verse everyday
 A tour bus passes now and then, glaring souls as black as night
 Spirits maimed and crippled could never understand this life
 Their sympathy is laughable, we are the wealthiest alive
 The hotels keep crawling nearer
 The hum of bulldozers grows louder
 Their work songs blaze like bugles in our ears
 The sickness is ambition, an insatiable appetite
 To put their flags up everywhere, to burn down and build again
 Can you hold these ashes, tell yourself it was really worth the price?
 Plastic priests on "great" missions
 Conquistadors with wicked grins
 Your treasure is a myth
 No use in digging here

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Song Details

Duration
04:04
Key
7
Tempo
153 BPM

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