Lyrics

Caudillo

It was out of the dawn light they sailed
Clutching sticks of fire they came
From Isabella’s lands
With words from the book of their good
On the beach at Cartagena we stood
And kissed their hands
And the night that the angles they came and they took us away
And the wax promises that they made to us on that day
Hooked on the lies
And the stories and rhymes
We were told
We have Caudillo
We have the sun

In the barrios and the plains
In the temples grand
In the jails
Lies heritage and hope
Confront this immaculate one
I refuse to be gone
Or be controlled
As the Nazca lines in the hills have shown us
The mysteries of our time unfolds
Righteous now in their might
They own us
We have Caudillo
We have the sun

Now they have come for your sons and your daughters
The future is ours we are told in this dream
Darkened to black are my Amazon waters
You slash and you burn in this forest of green

But today you come with your son
The white man
We lock away deep inside
Kukulkan
Into the light
Of this frightening new life
We’ve been shown
We have Caudillo
We have the sun

Pearson/Boosh Music/2011