ba*tards of the high seas, carried on the steel breeze Godspeed toward Kingdom Come Pirates and raiders, devils crusaders Buoyant on hard tack and rum At the Heart of the Sea Where the spirit can bleed They fight for their lives With their Mythical Knives Vagrants and drifters, freaks and shape-shifters Lured by the song of Nereid Rising and falling, drinking and brawling They pray for their souls to be saved At the Heart of the Sea Where the spirit can bleed They fight for their lives With their Mythical Knives They fight tooth and nail for ship and for sail Broken and cracked by the sun Through blood and through thunder, the beast torn asunder
Nowhere for cowards to run A flash of the blade, a suitable fate Desire for vengeance recedes Giving no quarter, blood on the water The ba*tards lay claim to the sea ba*tards of the high seas, carried on the steel breeze Godspeed toward Kingdom Come Pirates and raiders, devils crusaders Buoyant on hard tack and rum At the Heart of the Sea Where the spirit can bleed They fight for their lives With their Mythical Knives A flash of the blade, a suitable fate Desire for vengeance recedes Giving no quarter, blood on the water The ba*tards lay claim to the sea