[STYLE: Scottish pirate metal, 188 BPM, dark folk/death metal, aggressive female Scottish lead vocal, thick Scottish accent, dramatic storytelling, drop-tuned guitars, galloping Celtic riffs, blast-beat bursts, huge toms, Great Highland bagpipes, mournful fiddle, dark maritime atmosphere, massive gang vocals, cinematic tension, brutal hand-to-hand breakdown] [INTRO] [Black ocean ambience] [Cold wind] [Wood creaking] [Single distant bagpipe note] [Slow war drums] [LEAD - SPOKEN] Ocracoke. Twenty-second of November. Seventeen-eighteen. [Pause] Blackbeard is waiting. [LOW CREW] Aye... [LEAD] And the Navy is coming. [THUNDER] [GUITARS ENTER] [VERSE 1] Two little sloops beneath the dawn, Sixty men across the tide, Jane and Ranger creeping in, With the Royal colours flying high. No great ship to lead the hunt, No walls of oak between the guns, Just cutlass, pistol, powder smoke, And sixty men against the one. [PRE-CHORUS] [Building drums] Through the shallow water, Maynard comes! Through the shifting sand, Blackbeard runs! Eight guns thunder! Wood begins to break! The Devil's waiting For the Navy to make its mistake! [CHORUS] BLACKBEARD! STAND YOUR GROUND! THE NAVY'S COME TO DRAG YOU DOWN! BLACKBEARD! LIGHT THE FUSE! THE SEA WILL DECIDE WHO LIVES AND WHO LOSES! OCRA COKE! HEAR THE CANNONS ROAR! ONE LAST FIGHT AND THERE'LL BE NO MORE! BLACKBEARD! RAISE THE BLACK! THE NAVY'S HERE AND THEY WON'T TURN BACK! [VERSE 2] Sandbar grips the Navy's keel, Blackbeard sees the chance he's got, Eight guns rip across the deck, Men and timber torn apart. Maynard throws the ballast out, Makes the Jane rise from the sand, Blackbeard watches from his deck, Pistol smoking in his hand. [PRE-CHORUS] [Drums become tense and restrained] Then silence... No men upon the deck... Blackbeard smiles. [Pause] They're dead. [Whispered CREW] Or so he thinks... [BREAK] [BLACKBEARD - SHOUTED] BOARD THEM! [GIANT RIFF] [BREAKDOWN] [Half-time] [Low guitars] [Metallic percussion] [Gang vocals] Grappling hooks! CUT THE ROPE! Pistols! FIRE! Cutlasses! DRAW! [LEAD] THE DECK ERUPTS! [CREW] THE DEAD HAVE RISEN! [LEAD] THE TRAP IS SPRUNG! [EVERYONE] THE FIGHT HAS BEGUN! [VERSE 3] Men explode from underneath, Steel collides with bone and chain, Blackbeard swings through smoke and blood, Maynard meets him blade for blade. Pistol flashes point blank, Cutlass ringing in the rain, Neither man will give an inch, Neither man will break! [INSTRUMENTAL] [Furious fiddle] [Bagpipes underneath] [Rapid guitar solo] [Blast beats] [Hand percussion] [BRIDGE] [Everything drops] [Single guitar] [Low vocal] Five shots... Twenty cuts... Still the Devil stands. [Drum hit] Black beard red with blood and powder, Cutlass clutched inside his hand. [BUILDING] [Snare rolls] Then a sailor strikes behind him. [HIT] Another blade! [HIT] Another shot! [HIT] BLACKBEARD FALLS! [CHORUS - DARK] BLACKBEARD! THE BLACK FLAG FALLS! THE LAST GREAT PIRATE HEARS THE OCEAN CALL! BLACKBEARD! THE FIGHT IS DONE! THE NAVY HAS COME AND THE NAVY HAS WON! OCRA COKE! THE WATER RUNS RED! A LEGEND LIES WHERE THE WAVES HAVE FED! BLACKBEARD! NO TURNING BACK! THEY'LL TAKE YOUR HEAD AND HANG IT ON THE JACK! [BREAKDOWN] [Slow crushing riff] They cut his head... [CREW] FROM HIS BODY! [LEAD] Hung it high... [CREW] FOR ALL TO SEE! [LEAD] A warning nailed... [CREW] ABOVE THE SEA! [EVERYONE] THIS IS WHAT THEY DO TO PIRATES LIKE ME! [VERSE 4] Back to Hampton through the tide, Blackbeard's head above the bau, A grisly crown upon the ship, A warning to the pirates now. Fifteen prisoners face the court, Six are sentenced to the rope, The age of pirates starts to fade, But the black flag still gives hope. [BRIDGE] [Clean guitar] [Mournful fiddle] [Bagpipe drone] You can kill the captain... You can hang the crew... You can nail his head Where every sailor sees it too... But you cannot drown The stories that remain. [Drums slowly return] Every tavern keeps his name. [FINAL CHORUS] BLACKBEARD! THE BLACK FLAG FALLS! THE LAST GREAT PIRATE HEARS THE OCEAN CALL! BLACKBEARD! THE FIGHT IS DONE! THE NAVY HAS COME AND THE NAVY HAS WON! OCRA COKE! THE WATER RUNS RED! A LEGEND LIES BUT THE LEGEND'S NOT DEAD! [FINAL BUILD] [Bagpipes rising] [Gang vocals] BLACK FLAG! [HIT] BLACK HEART! [HIT] BLACKBEARD! [HIT] NEVER FORGOTTEN! [EVERYONE] RAISE THE BLACK! [Massive riff] RAISE THE BLACK! [Massive riff] RAISE THE BLACK! [Final scream] BLACKBEARD! [GIANT CANNON BLAST] [OUTRO] [Bagpipes play slow minor melody] [Waves] [Wood creaking] [LEAD - QUIET] The Navy killed the man. [Pause] But they made the legend.
