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La Cruz de Santiago Lyrics

No era el hombre más honesto pero él...
era un hombre valiente y fiel
tampoco la piedad se cobijaba en él.

Malvivía, alquilando por tres maravedís
su espada y vizcaína en
ajustes de poco lustre y de peor fin.

Eran tiempos duros y había que buscarse el pan.
Reinaban la picaresca, la espada y el "voto a tal".

Brilla el acero en su mano,
perla su cara el sudor,
donde el mar no tiene dueño irá...
irá a buscar.

A su espalda, una sombra a pie
le seguía sin perder ningún detalle,
parecía aprender.

Su mirada reflejaba calma y paz.
su voz grave y familiar
relataba leyendas de la antigüedad.

Algo misterioso le envolvía, no dormía jamás,
cuentan que se alimentaba del relato popular.

Brilla la Cruz de Santiago
en su pecho, por el Sol
su rostro jamás descubrió
su nombre ocultó.

En el tejado del tiempo,
en el desván de los sueños
se ahoga una voz:
"No creas en todo lo que veas
sólo haz caso a tu intuición

Y si albergas la duda
Nunca, nunca hallarás consuelo en tu interior.
Lanza bien los dados
porque el juego del camino ha comenzado,

Agudiza tu ingenio,
sírvete de mancias,
sírvete del tarot,
lee en el alma del bosque
y adivina dónde la muerte se escondió".

Brilla el acero en su mano,
perla su cara el sudor,
donde el mar no tiene dueño irá...

Brilla la Cruz de Santiago
en su pecho, por el Sol
su rostro jamás descubrió

Brilla el acero en su mano,
perla su cara el sudor,
donde el mar no tiene dueño irá...

Brilla la Cruz de Santiago
en su pecho, por el Sol
su rostro jamás descubrió

Brilla el acero en su mano,
perla su cara el sudor,
donde el mar no tiene dueño irá...

Brilla la Cruz de Santiago
en su pecho, por el Sol
su rostro jamás descubrió

Brilla el acero en su mano,
perla su cara el sudor,
donde el mar no tiene dueño irá...

Brilla la Cruz de Santiago
en su pecho, por el Sol
su rostro jamás descubrió.
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Cover art for La Cruz de Santiago lyrics by  Mägo de Oz

[Tells the story of how an intrepid swordsman called "Diego Cortés", he receives a bag of gold in exchange for accompanying a silent pilgrim from Puente La Reina to Santiago de Compostela. Thanks to Arturo Pérez Reverte for his inspiration on this character. There's nothing left but to fight!!]

The Cross of Santiago

He wasn't the most honest, but he... was a brave and loyal man, mercy didn't live within him, either.

He struggled, renting for three maravedís his sword and biscayan nativity in adjustments of scarce light and worse ends.

Those were hard times and you had to work hard for bread. The cunning, the sword and the "vote for" someone, reigned.

Shines, the steel in his hand, pearls, the sweat in his face, where the sea doesn't have an owner he'll go... he'll go and seek.

Behind his back, a shadow on foot followed him without missing a detail, it appeared to learn.

His look reflected calm and peace. His voice low and familiar told legends of antiquity.

Mystery enveloped him, he never slept, they say he fed off popular tales.

Shines, the Cross of Santiago in his chest, through the Sun his face he never uncovered... his name he hid.

On the rooftop of time, on the attic of dreams a voice is drowned: "Don't believe everything you see only pay attention to your intuition

And if you harbor doubt you'll never, ever find comfort within. Throw the dice well because the game of the road has commenced,

Sharpen your wit, help yourself with magick, help yourself with tarot, read the soul of the forest and guess where death hid itself."

Shines, the steel in his hand, pearls, the sweat in his face, where the sea doesn't have an owner he'll go.

Shines, the Cross of Santiago in his chest, through the Sun his face he never uncovered.

Shines, the steel in his hand, pearls, the sweat in his face, where the sea doesn't have an owner he'll go.

Shines, the Cross of Santiago in his chest, through the Sun his face he never uncovered.

Shines, the steel in his hand, pearls, the sweat in his face, where the sea doesn't have an owner he'll go.

Shines, the Cross of Santiago in his chest, through the Sun his face he never uncovered.

Shines, the steel in his hand, pearls, the sweat in his face, where the sea doesn't have an owner he'll go.

Shines, the Cross of Santiago in his chest, through the Sun his face he never uncovered.

Cover art for La Cruz de Santiago lyrics by  Mägo de Oz

This song starts with the same three lines as the Arturo Pérez Reverte book "El Capitán Alatriste." The Cross of Santiago could probably refer to a piece of the True Cross that is in the Chapel of the Reliquary, in Santiago de Compostela. You'll see how that fits the story later on, hehehe.

 
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