[Intro]
Am F Dm E
[Verse 1]
Am
We’re Aztec priests so mind your head,
F
Our prisoners always wind up dead.
Dm
Our favourite colour is blood red,
E
We’re not nice.
[Verse 2]
Am
At an Aztec temple's opening day,
F
We priest would please the gods this way.
Dm
Hoards of enemies we’d slay,
E
Mass sacrifice.
[Bridge]
Dm F
To win at war, make crops grow more,
G Am
To cure our kids when ill.
Dm C
The sun to shine, this song to rhyme,
E
More victims we must kill.
[Chorus]
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
You won’t survive! You won’t survive!
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
Ain’t staying alive! Ain’t staying alive!
E
Yeahhh!
[Bridge 2]
F
With scarifice, we priest appease,
F#
Our gods each powerful big cheese.
G
Lets hear it for your favourits please!
E
Haaa!
[Verse 3]
Am F
We’re doing it for Toci, the Aztec goddess of the earth’s heart,
Dm E
We’re doing it for Chantigo, goddess who makes volcanoes start.
Am F
We’re doing it for Itzli, the goddess of stone knives.
Dm NC.
We’re doing it for Itzpapalotl-ometeotlchi-conahuiehecatl,
E
Errr? Some other gods great lives!
[Chorus]
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
Don’t cross us Aztecz, we advise ya!
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
Or you’ll end up as fertiliser!
E
Yeahhhhh!
[Verse 4]
Am F
Our year starts in november, when every priestly member,
Dm E
Is asked if they’ll remember, our Aztec dead.
Am F
We do this if you haven’t guessed, by getting something off your chest,
Dm E
Your heart would probably be best, or else your head.
[Verse 5]
Am F
And then on our year planners, it’s the raising of the banners,
Dm E
And it’s only polite manners, to kill more guys.
Am F
December and January, desmembering methods vary,
Dm E
All you need to know, is that we pile 'em high.
[Bridge]
Dm F G Am
May and June, it’s summer time, the killing is easy,
Dm C E
It’s only halfway through the year, bet you’re feeling queasy.
Dm F G Am
In autumn time, we sweep our home and kill some more but then,
Dm C E
By late October, the killings over, then it starts up again!
[Chorus]
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
You won’t survive! You won’t survive!
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
Ain’t staying alive! Ain’t staying alive!
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
Want to live until you’re old?
Am G
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
F
Avoid us priests, you’ve been told!
End on Am