[Intro] [Distant pirate broadcast through damaged alien radio] (Krrrzzzt...) Unidentified vessel approaching... No registry... No human life signs... [Alien voices] Haaa-rrrzz... Raise the black star... Open the void... [Verse 1] A torn black flag across the moon Bone-white eyes in a dead cocoon Their ship crawls out of poisoned light With stolen suns burning through the night No wooden deck No ocean spray Just iron ribs and cosmic decay They sail where dying planets spin And harvest everything within [Pre-Chorus] No law... No shore... No living cargo leaves their door... [Chorus] Alien pirates Black flag in the void Alien pirates Worlds consumed and destroyed They steal the signal They poison the sky Under the skull No witness survives Alien pirates Hear the engines cry Alien pirates Raiders from beyond the sky [Alien sounds] (Bzzzz... rrrzzzzz...) (Yaaaargh... krrr-tah...) [Verse 2] Their captain wears a borrowed face Stitched from creatures without a race A silver hook of living bone Points toward planets left alone They board through walls They breathe through steel They take the memories people feel Gold means nothing to their kind They plunder bodies, blood and mind [Pre-Chorus] No chains... No cell... They make the captured vessel sail... [Chorus] Alien pirates Black flag in the void Alien pirates Worlds consumed and destroyed They steal the signal They poison the sky Under the skull No witness survives [Bridge] [Mechanical sea-shanty pulse, monotone alien chant] One for the flesh Two for the mind Three for the star map Humans left behind Four for the signal Five for the gate Six for the species Marked for their fate [Whispered] (The treasure was never gold...) [Breakdown] [Heavy single-note synth pulse] They raid the moon They strip the sun They leave no trace When they are done A skull above Two bones below The final flag That worlds will know [Verse 3] We sent a warning through the storm But something answered in our form Our own transmission came back wrong With alien laughter in the song The radar froze The engines died The black ship opened up its side And through the static came the call: [Alien captain transmission] Your world... belongs... to us... [Final Chorus] Alien pirates Black flag in the void Alien pirates Every signal destroyed They steal the future They rewrite the past Once they have found you The silence will last Alien pirates No harbour, no home Alien pirates Through dead systems they roam Raise the skull Let darkness deploy Black flag forever In the endless void [Outro] [Damaged transmission fading] Vessel designation unknown... Crew status: missing... Planet status... ...plundered. [Alien laughter] Haaa... Haha hahaaha
