Hot Gates Of Hell

Go tell the spartans
Stranger passing by
That herem obedient to
Their laws, we lie

Xerxes builds an army
One quarter million strong
To conquer and devour
He knows it won't be long
'till the west and all it's riches
Fall to his persian throng
(And nobody will dare - stand in my way)
(And I shall rule the world)

Athens stands defiant
But she knows there's
Little chance
If only there were someone
To slow Xerxes advance
A pland could then be mustered
To hault this dread expanse
But where will we find
This courage of mind

Who will stop this threat
From the east
Who will answer the call
If no one stops this
Menacing beast
Then civilization falls
(repeat)

Leonidus then comes forward
The spartan king decrees
Greece shall be defended
By 300 men and me
We will meet
The mighty persians
At Thermoplyae
And there we will buy you
These days with our lives

CHORUS
From the pages of time
For the blood of our kind
Comes a story to tell
At the hot gates of hell
When the fire grows cold
Let this tale be told
Of the brave men who fell
At the hot gates of hell

Report come back to Xerxes
Of the force that's challenging
He laughs at their
Small numbers
And with words
Speaks threatening
Tell this Leonidus
The foolish Spartan king
To surrender his weapons
Or death I will brind
(and I shall rule the world)

The persian scouts deliver
This message to alarm
Your forces are outnumbered
But to you will come no harm
You may return to Sparta
If you just lay down your arms
And Leonidus replies
Tell Xerxes - Come and get them

CHORUS

Now the persians charge
With a savage roar
And the earth it trembles
With their many score
With a thunder crash
These two worlds collide
For the fate of all
They will decide

The Spartans hold their ground
The Persians are cut to pieces
The incursion is shutdown
As day one ends

Xerxes angered
By this sound defeat
Gives now this order
To his troops elite
My immortal guard
For the fighting bred
Do not leave the field
'till every Spartans dead

The Spartans drive them back
The immmortals are
Butchered like cattle
Thousands die from their attack
As day two ends

Then the great kind hears
Of a traitorous greek
And for a sum of gold
Ephialtes speaks
Of a hidden pass
To deploy the ranks
Leonidus is then outflanked

The Spartans fought with valor
With blunted sword and spear
But soon they were surrounded
And the end for them was clear

The Persians thus encircled
But so fearful of their foe
In a shower of deadly arrows
They dealt the killing blow

And the fading sun reflects it's glow
On the bronze and
Crimson far below
Three hundred and
One in endless sleep
From their blood the dry earth now
Drinks deep

Solo

But for the fallen spartans
Death was not in vain
For events were now unfolding
As the oracle ordained

And as the Persian navy
Sails into Salimis
Hellenic ships lie waiting
Inconspicous and the trap
Is sprung

Now the Persian ships are burning
Their men drown in the sea
As Greece and all her hoplites
Shout in victory

And on the plains of Plataea
Xerxes troops are crushed
Against 5000 spartans
They're slaughtered in the dust

And as Xerxes flees out for his life
He could hear those Spartans cry

CHORUS