Savages

Savages is a song featured in Disney Pocahontas its sung by two sides Ratcliffe, English settlers and Chief Powhatan and the Native Amercians. There are two parts of this song, with Pocahontas joining in in the second part.

Lyrics (Part 1)
Ratcliffe:

What can you expect

From filthy little heathens?

Here's what you get when races are diverse!

Their skin's a hellish red

They're only good when dead

They're vermin, as I said

And worse

English Settlers:

They're savages!

Savages!

Ratcliffe:

Barely even human

English Settlers:

Savages! Savages!

Ratcliffe:

Drive them from our shore!

They're not like you and me

Which means they must be evil

We must sound the drums of war!

Ratcliffe and English Settlers:

They're savages!

Savages!

Dirty shrieking devils!

Now we sound the drums of war!

Powhatan:

This is what we feared

The paleface is a demon

The only thing they feel at all is greed

Kekata:

Beneath that milky hide

There's emptiness inside

Native Americans:

I wonder if they even bleed

They're savages!

Savages!

Barely even human

Savages! Savages!

Powhatan:

Killers at the core

Kekata:

They're different from us

Which means they can't be trusted

Powhatan:

We must sound the drums of war

Native Americans:

They're savages!

Savages!

First we deal with this one

Then we sound the drums of war

English Settlers:

Savages! Savages!

Ben:

Let's go kill a few, men!

Native Americans:

Savages! Savages!

Ratcliffe:

Now it's up to you, men!

All:

Savages! Savages!

Barely even human!

Now we sound the drums of war!

Lyrics (Part 2)
Pocahontas:

Is there nothing I can do?

Will this really be the end?

Is it only death that waits

Just around the riverbend?

Ratcliffe:

This will be the day.

(Let's go men!)

Powhatan:

This will be the morning.

(Bring out the prisoner.)

English Settlers and Indians:

We will see them dying in the dust.

Pocahontas:

I don't know what I can do.

Still I know I've got to try.

Ratcliffe and English Settlers:

Now we make them pay.

Pocahontas:

Eagle help my feet to fly.

Indians:

Now without a warning.

Pocahontas:

Mountain help my heart be great.

English Settlers and Indians:

Now we leave em blood and bone and rust.

Pocahontas:

Spirits of the Earth and Sky.

English Settlers and Indians:

It's them or us.

Pocahontas:

Please don't let it be too late.

English Settlers and Indians:

They're just a bunch of filthy, stinking....

Indians:

Savages!

English Settlers:

Savages!

Indians:

Demons!

English Settlers:

Devils!

Ratcliffe:

Kill them!

Indians:

Savages!

English Settlers:

Savages!

Ratcliffe and English Settlers:

What are we waiting for?

Indians and English Settlers:

Destroy their evil race until there's not a trace left.

Pocahontas:

How loud are the drums of the war?

Indians and English Settlers:

Well will sound the drums of war! Savages! Savages!

Ratcliffe:

Now we see what comes of trying to be chums.

Indians:

Now we sound the drums of war!

English Settlers:

Of course it means the drums of war!

Pocahontas:

Is this the death of all I love carried in the drum of war?

Trivia

 * This song is an allegory to racism: both sides call the other "savages" while knowing little to nothing about their "enemies".
 * Savages is very similar to the mob song in Beauty and the Beast. The main villain exploits his men's fear of the unknown to get them on a pretended heroic fight, when actually they only want to satisfy themselves and their vices (Ratcliff's greed and Gaston's jealosy)
 * The film cuts out Pocahontas' first verse in the second part, instead beginning with Ratcliffe announcing "This will be the day"