Black flag lyrics

A storm is raging on the open sea

We are the outcasts

No friends of sophistry

Betrayed

Banishment

Embracing chaos, the only creed

Scourge of nations

The empires enemies

Betrayed

Banishment

With the stroke of a pen

A treaty is signed

Now deemed as outlaws

Once employed by the crown

With letters of marque

Giving us sanctioned plunder

No longer the fools

Or pawns in their game

Of economic warfare

Do they really believe

They control us?

Our greatest strength is independence

We live out our last days

With barrels of rum, black powder

And the clash of the blades

You will fire the guns

Upon my command

Unleash full broadside

Destroying the mast

The rigging, the sails

The shrapnel devastating

Boarding the sloop

Flintlock in hand, one shot

Grenades are flying

Running them through

With my cutlass

The blood and the steel

The slashing and screaming

We live out our last days

With barrels of rum, black powder

And the clash of the blades

Stories foretold

Of silver and gold

And the empires greed

Well god damn the queen

We'll string up the kings

We're rogues of the seas

The freest of men

Fly no colors at all

And our creed is our own

We spit on our hands

Hoist the black flag

And begin to slit throats

We live out our last days

With barrels of rum, black powder

And the clash of the blades

Stories foretold

Of silver and gold

And the empires greed

Well god damn the queen

We'll string up the kings

We're rogues of the seas

The freest of men

Fly no colors at all

And our creed is our own

We spit on our hands

Hoist the black flag

And begin to slit throats

• Artist:Iced Earth