Atlacatl

Through the sea of salt and darkness Came a legion with a cause Bringing iron, steel and gunfire And the white man's twisted laws With nobility and civility Europe would see this land controlled Demanding obedience Our gods and our gold Our whole world would be sold But in the highest hottest mountains We resisted, we rebelled We forged a revolution To resist destroy this foreign hell There lived a chieftain Who would never be tamed Led by this mighty warrior Both predator and man We slaughtered foolish foreign men Who did not know the land And though he's long since dead His legend still remains The blood of the gods In the flesh of a man With a soul too ancient to burn We must always remember The strength and the call Of the blood of the gods That lives on in us all Blood of the gods That lives on in us all As the white man's guns And glistening steel Cut through our shields Our chieftain saw a future That their butchery revealed An unstoppable invasion Blood rained from the sky So he scaled a great volcano And rather than be shamed Atlacatl swore to the gods And dove into the flames A searing death preferred To the weight of their chains The blood of the gods In the flesh of a man With a soul too ancient to burn We must always remember The strength and the call Of the blood of the gods That lives on in us all Blood of the gods That lives on in us all Transformed by sacrifice His spirit burned into memory A symbol of vengeance Pride and destiny We will embrace our legacy Atlacatl Atlacatl The blood of the gods In the flesh of a man Atlacatl The blood of the gods In the flesh of a man It's the blood of the gods That lives on in us all Atlacatl