The Black Tide Requiem

Intro Far beyond the devil’s reef Where no man dares to sail A shadow moves beneath the storm The cursed ship of hell Verse I The ocean howls beneath the moon As blackened sails arise The dead men crew the endless night With fire inside their eyes No wind can turn their ghostly mast No prayer can break the chain For every soul aboard that ship Was damned beneath the waves The captain stands with broken crown His heart consumed by greed Now bound forever to the sea By blood and treachery Pre-Chorus Hear the thunder call our fate Beyond the ocean gate Chorus Raise the black flag high tonight! Through the storm we ride Ghosts of vengeance side by side On the black tide! Cannons roar into the dark As heaven splits the sky The cursed ship sails on forever And never dies! Verse II The waters turn to crimson red Around the shattered fleet The sirens sing their funeral hymn To sailors dragged beneath The ancient gold lies deep below Inside the devil’s keep But every man who seeks the treasure Belongs now to the deep The bell of doom begins to toll From oceans far away And every port now fears the name Of the ship they cannot slay Bridge Condemned to roam eternally No land beneath our feet The storm became our kingdom The sea our endless grave Whoa-oh-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh-oh! Solo Section (Choirs, thunder, orchestral pirate melody, blazing guitar solo) Final Chorus Raise the black flag high tonight! Let the cannons light the sky The phantom crew returns again From tides where sailors die! Through the fog their voices sing A cursed eternity The black tide lives forevermore Beneath the sea! Outro And when the moon is swallowed whole And silence fills the waves The cursed ship still sails alone Across forgotten graves...