I’ve slit the throats | |
of clergymen and governors. | |
Those bloated swine... | |
May their screams unhinge | |
a thankless crown. | |
O King! See your soldiers | |
scrape at the algae growing | |
below the planks? | |
They starve, yet still | |
they quarrel for phantom ore | |
once owed your throne. | |
“Forgive this ship of fools,” | |
said I to the mouths of trees, | |
leaves as hellhound tongues | |
outstretched to drink the stream. | |
The beast flung its filth | |
into the wake, | |
tail coiled, | |
fingers grasping | |
the remains of our splintered mast. | |
Once we’ve razed the land of gold | |
I will crucify him. | |
The corpses on my raft | |
smell of piss and blood, | |
yet they were but men, | |
and all men, slaves and kings alike, | |
leave stench as their epitaph. | |
Not I. | |
Holy Mother Church of Rome, | |
cleanse this ground I conquer! | |
Rain brimstone upon the judges | |
who steal from the weary. | |
Slaughter the Lutherans | |
and priests who taint your word. | |
Make Peru the purest land, | |
for I am its prince | |
and will forever be. | |
I am its prince | |
and will forever be. | |
O King! See your isle | |
burned by my soldiers. | |
Your vassals and their wives, | |
I hung them all. | |
Panama will fall. | |
With my daughter | |
I forge an empire | |
to survive us both. | |
My deeds live on, | |
for I have seen what men | |
could only dream they saw. | |
I have seen what men | |
could only dream they saw. |
I' ve slit the throats | |
of clergymen and governors. | |
Those bloated swine... | |
May their screams unhinge | |
a thankless crown. | |
O King! See your soldiers | |
scrape at the algae growing | |
below the planks? | |
They starve, yet still | |
they quarrel for phantom ore | |
once owed your throne. | |
" Forgive this ship of fools," | |
said I to the mouths of trees, | |
leaves as hellhound tongues | |
outstretched to drink the stream. | |
The beast flung its filth | |
into the wake, | |
tail coiled, | |
fingers grasping | |
the remains of our splintered mast. | |
Once we' ve razed the land of gold | |
I will crucify him. | |
The corpses on my raft | |
smell of piss and blood, | |
yet they were but men, | |
and all men, slaves and kings alike, | |
leave stench as their epitaph. | |
Not I. | |
Holy Mother Church of Rome, | |
cleanse this ground I conquer! | |
Rain brimstone upon the judges | |
who steal from the weary. | |
Slaughter the Lutherans | |
and priests who taint your word. | |
Make Peru the purest land, | |
for I am its prince | |
and will forever be. | |
I am its prince | |
and will forever be. | |
O King! See your isle | |
burned by my soldiers. | |
Your vassals and their wives, | |
I hung them all. | |
Panama will fall. | |
With my daughter | |
I forge an empire | |
to survive us both. | |
My deeds live on, | |
for I have seen what men | |
could only dream they saw. | |
I have seen what men | |
could only dream they saw. |
I' ve slit the throats | |
of clergymen and governors. | |
Those bloated swine... | |
May their screams unhinge | |
a thankless crown. | |
O King! See your soldiers | |
scrape at the algae growing | |
below the planks? | |
They starve, yet still | |
they quarrel for phantom ore | |
once owed your throne. | |
" Forgive this ship of fools," | |
said I to the mouths of trees, | |
leaves as hellhound tongues | |
outstretched to drink the stream. | |
The beast flung its filth | |
into the wake, | |
tail coiled, | |
fingers grasping | |
the remains of our splintered mast. | |
Once we' ve razed the land of gold | |
I will crucify him. | |
The corpses on my raft | |
smell of piss and blood, | |
yet they were but men, | |
and all men, slaves and kings alike, | |
leave stench as their epitaph. | |
Not I. | |
Holy Mother Church of Rome, | |
cleanse this ground I conquer! | |
Rain brimstone upon the judges | |
who steal from the weary. | |
Slaughter the Lutherans | |
and priests who taint your word. | |
Make Peru the purest land, | |
for I am its prince | |
and will forever be. | |
I am its prince | |
and will forever be. | |
O King! See your isle | |
burned by my soldiers. | |
Your vassals and their wives, | |
I hung them all. | |
Panama will fall. | |
With my daughter | |
I forge an empire | |
to survive us both. | |
My deeds live on, | |
for I have seen what men | |
could only dream they saw. | |
I have seen what men | |
could only dream they saw. |