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Matthew Sweet Lyrics for Song: Cortez The Killer
 Lyrics for Album: Girlfriend - Legacy Edition [1996]
 
 
 
 6246>He came dancing across the water
 
 With his galleons and guns
 
 Looking for the new world
 
 And the palace in the sun
 
 
 
 On the shore lay Montezuma
 
 With his coca 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 his 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
 
 
 
 Now hate was just a legend
 
 And war was never known
 
 People worked together
 
 And they lifted many stones
 
 
 
 They carried them to the flatlands
 
 But they died along the way
 
 And they built up with their bare hands
 
 What we still can't do today
 
 
 
 And I know she is living there
 
 And she loves me to this day
 
 I can't remember when
 
 Or how I lost my way
 
 
 
 He came dancing across the water
 
 Cortez, Cortez, what a killer
 
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| Album Lyrics: Girlfriend - Legacy Edition [1996] |  
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  Matthew Sweet
 "Girlfriend - Legacy Edition [1996]"
 
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