City Of Z Lyrics

I heard of a lost city

From a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend

Little did I know

That it would only spell my end

Traveling through Brazilian forests

With gun and machete in hand

A fateful step could doom us

In such a dangerous land

On the hunt for a monstrous serpent

Forty-five feet long

It tried it's best to devour me

My bullet proved it wrong

So many creatures I witnessed

Amazing mammals and birds

So many failed trips to find it

So obsessed and absurd

Don't you go looking for me

There's no hope searching for Z

A thousand men will try their best

A thousand more will find their death

Goliath bird-eating spiders

Eels that electrify

Caiman lying in the rivers

Piranhas eat you alive

On my last venture I brought my son

But he fell ill and stayed back

I had to go on without him

Then I fell off track

Don't you go looking for me

There's no hope searching for Z

A thousand men will try their best

A thousand more will find their death

History will surely call me a fool

For wasting so much of my life

Adventure was my passion

My reason to live and thrive

In time they may find my bones

I beg thee just leave me here

To go rest forever in glory

Is the goal of the pioneer

Don't you go looking for me

There's no hope searching for Z

A thousand men will try their best

A thousand more will find their death