Black Flag Lyrics - Iced Earth

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