C G Am F C
We knew our stream would lead to a bigger stream
G Am F C
And eventually the river, and out to the sea
G Am F C
It never seemed like a possi-bili-ty
G Am F
That we could go beyond our boundaries
C G C F G
Beyond my mother's screams
C G Am F C
We jumped over fences and we cut some down
G Am F C
As the stream got deeper and winded around
G Am F C
When we finally made it to its mouth
G Am F C
We stood in silence in what we had found
G C F G
We were afraid to make a sound
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C G Am F
There was this warning, written in red:
C G Am F
"This is the land of the Senecas, keep out!" then Beastmaster said:
C G Am F
"We should not do this now, Hawk", "No we should turn around"
C G Am F
"No we should not do this now Hawk", "No we should turn around"
C G C
"Make some plans then come back and attack"
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C G Am F C
We went to school and we told the gang
G Am F C
We all met up the next Sa-tur-day
G Am F C G Am F
Armed to the teeth with BB guns, Rambo knives and machetes
C G C F G
We were a wicked little team
C G Am F C
We marched beside the new found stream
G Am F C
There were red palm prints on the trees
G Am F C
We found their club so easily
G Am F
We ripped up everything
C G C F G
We showed no mercy
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C G Am
We painted lightning bolts
F C G Am F
And we left a note to let our enemies know that this war had begun
C G Am F C
We said: "You got no rights to post that kind of sign"
G Am F
"These woods does not belong to you or anyone"
C G C
"And your warnings don't scare us"
Dm Am
"Because, we move silently
E Am Dm Am E
We hide in the shadows of the trees and we will not be seen
Dm Am E Am Dm
We can disarm the traps, just set, set our own that you will trip
Am E Am
Our arrows will fly straighter
Dm Am E Am Dm Am E
These woods does not belong to anyone, but if it must it will belong to us
Dm Am E Am
We have won this day, you should know our names
Dm Am E C
We are the Gladiators"
F G C Am
We made maps, we gave names to all the paths
F G C Am
We found the place that gave our little town its name
F G C Am
It looked like a castle but it was where they made the cement at
F G C
To us it was such a magic place
F G C Am F
We made a temple out of wood and we filled it with the bones
G C Am F
That we found in the woods so people would leave us alone
G C Am F
We were young, we were dumb, we were having so much fun
G C
The new kings of the new kingdom
Am G C
We enjoyed our victory
Am G C F
We got a message from someone named Gypsy
Am G C
He said: "Your bones do not scare me
Am G C F
This war's not over and I think that we should meet
Am G C
The temple, this Friday at 3"
E F C
I woke up early before school and I ran back to the spot
G
It was filled with traps, just like I thought
E F C
I tore them up and left a note, and said: "Is this some kind of joke?
G
There's much more to us than just old bones"
C G F
And the top of the castle is where we would meet next
C G F
This time the time and the place were things that we picked
C G F
We said "No weapons", we said "No tricks"
C G F
We did the best to hide the fact that we were just some little kids
C G C
We were just some little kids
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C G Am F
I was scared when I saw him
C G Am F
He looked much older and I thought that he might be a Vet
C G Am F C G Am F
Beastmaster climbed the wall and saw he had a rifle hidden on a rope hanging in the pit
C G C F G
I said: "We said no weapons" and we called him out on it
C G Am F
He didn't know how I could know
C G Am F
Until he turned around
C G Am F
Beastmaster had climbed up right behind him
C G Am F
And didn't make a sound
C G C F G
And we really had him now
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Dm Am E C Dm Am E C
We talked for a while with this stranger about the natives of this land, our gangs, and nature
Dm Am
When we got home again
E C
We didn't know what to think of him
Dm Am G C
But it seemed like the war was over and the trees held no more danger
C G C
I was sad to see it go
F G C Am
A few days later I ran in to him alone
F G C Am
At the place that used to be his old gang's base
F G C Am
He told me stories of their glory days
F G C Am
Before his friends grew up or they moved away
E Am
And we decided that day that we would build something new
C G
We would build it together, it would represent our truce
E Am C G
And as I got to know him, it got easy to see that he was just a kid who loved the woods like me
C G C
He was a friend, he was not an enemy
C G C
We made our enemies our friends
Am G C
We should have never been enemies with them
G Am F
We made our enemies our friends
C G C G C
And our gang got twice as big
