El Dorado

While you were dreaming

They were scheming to be kings of their time

While you were tending

They were fending for all the fruit from the vine

While you were writing

They were hiding behind a cross and a shield

And the fields of the harvest

They plundered the garden and everything else they could steal

Over and over and over again

El Dorado, golden silos

Is it over now?

Your fingers, bleeding

While they were feasting, playing musical thrones

You were starving

They were carving the bird, and they threw you a bone

Today doesn't fall on a memory

Today falls like a star

And without warning, the finest of mornings

You'll be found looking down from afar

Over and over and over again

El Dorado, golden silos

Is it over now?

We built

El Dorado, golden silos

Is it over now?

El Dorado, golden halos

Is it over now?