[Intro] [Call And Response] We sail on waves in the darkness (Dark as a sinner’s grin, me boys) We travel lines in the void (Void that swallows sober joys) We are pirates of the Frontier (Frontier scum with filthy ploys) We hunt where the picking is good (Good enough to make rude noise) [Verse] Confederacy says “Stay out, lads,” (Out) but we piss on posted signs their warnings make fine toilet rolls (hah) and their patrols buy finer wines. Anything slips past their scanners anything drifts loose and free (Free) we grab it like drunk lovers grabbing anything they see. (Ours) [Chorus] Oh, heave away, you gutter crew heave away with boots and lies for the prize we carry’s worth a fortune and ten years’ worth of alibis [Verse] The prize comes forth a tiny little woman wrapped in silk and temper like a noble‑born explosion A princess of the inner courts worth more than spice or steel and every pirate in the quadrant would kill to make that deal We checked her worth for Rygol (rygol) stripped the pomp from head to toe she cursed us in five languages (spicy) and kicked our quartermaster low [Drop] [Spoken] Is this the sister of the girl I lost now in the pages of the past is this a path to bring me home after many years, at last [/Spoken] [Chorus] So heave away, you shameless crew heave away through star‑lit grime for every ship that smells her value will chase us hard and chase in time [Verse] Why fly fast? We fly far zigs and zags and drunken spirals, like a barfight in a jar. Every beacon’s watching us every hunter’s on the rise for nothing draws a pirate’s doom like hauling a princess prize She shouts she’ll see us jailed, lads she swears she’ll see us tried (try) but she’s lashed into the captain’s chair and she still looks dignified (oooh) The crew keeps making wagers on who she’ll stab first when she’s free (free) the captain says she’ll stab him last out of sheer propriety (ha) [Chorus] Heave away, you wicked crew, heave away and mind the chase for the safest port is far ahead and death is close in open space. [Verse] Pirates we are pirates we’ll remain (Yes) we look to the prize to pay for our pain. (pain) Retirement’s just a tavern tale a dream of rum and feather beds (bed) but if we land with her alive we’ll buy a future for our heads. (ho) And if we don’t? Well, hell with it (hell) we’ll die as we were born loud, drunk, broke, and laughing (ha ha ha) in the teeth of a cosmic storm. [Chorus] So heave away, you devil crew, heave away and guard her tight for the princess buys our freedom whole if we survive this cursed night. [Outro] Heave away, lads heave away
