Find Out

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> *FIND OUT ALL YE WHO FUCK AROUND HERE*
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***Find Out*** is the third track of *The Ottoman Empire Was An Empire*.

## About

‘Find Out’ is structured around, and directly quotes from, the indagated cry of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II’s Vizir, Halil Pasha.

What provoked this response? Well, the Byzantines held in Constantinople the only other member (besides Mehmed himself) of the Ottoman house, Orhan. In a tragic miscalculation on the part of the Byzantine Emperor, the Byzantines demanded that the annuity already being paid by the Ottomans was not sufficient- And that it should be increased under threat of releasing the pretender.

Needless to say, the response to this was not exactly what the Byzantines were looking for.

## Lyrics

> *I have known your cunning ways for long enough.*
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> *The late sultan was a lenient friend to you.*
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> *The present sultan Mehmed is not of the same mind.*
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> *You are fools to think that you can frighten us with your fantasies.*
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> *We are not children without strength or sense**.*
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> *If you think that you can start something, do so.*
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> *If you want to proclaim Orhan as sultan in Thrace, go ahead.*
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> *If you want to bring the Hungarians across the Danube, let them come.*
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> *If you want to recover places that you lost long since, try it**.*
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> *You stupid Greeks!*
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> *If you want to fuck around, find out!*
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> *Yeah,*
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> *You dumb Greeks.*
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> *Find out.*
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> *Oh, the late sultan was your friend?*
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> *Ah, he was lenient, man.*
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> *Oh, he was conscientious.*
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> *But Mehmed?*
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> *Mehmed's not your friend.*
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> *He's not your buddy, guy.*
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> *We know your cunning ways, man.*
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> *Yeah, and your fantasies.*
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> *Your devious, your wicked schemes.*
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> *Ah, but you're some dumb motherfucking Greeks, huh?*
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> *Can't frighten us with that shit, man.*
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> *Haha haha, nahhh.*
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> *We're not children, man.*
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> *We're not without strength, man.*
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> *We're not without sense, man.*
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> *We're cool, man.*
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> *We're chill, man.*
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> *We're otto, man.*
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> *Find out.*
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> *You wanna start something?*
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> *Start it, baby.*
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> *Proclaim Orhan as sultan in Thrace.*
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> *Go ahead, it's all good.*
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> *I'd be Turkish delighted.*
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> *Bring those Hungarians, man.*
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> *Let them come.*
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> *Cross that blue Danube.*
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> *Waltz on over, man.*
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> *Wanna try to recover those lost lands?*
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> *Heh heh heh heh.*
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> *I found them.*
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> *Find out.*
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> *You some stupid Greeks, huh?*
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> *Keep fucking around.*
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> *Find out.*
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> *[Screaming]*
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> [Daubs:] *One, two, three, four!*
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### Notes

1. ↑ Mehmed II was incredibly young when he ascended to the throne (Only 12 years old!), and thus many leaders at the time underestimated him.
2. ↑ Once a large and powerful empire, Byzantium’s borders were slowly chipped away, until all that remains of the once great empire was the lands surrounding Constantinople, and a few scattered islands.

## External links

### Recommended reading

The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453 - Donald M. Nicol