“Heavy Metal Pirates” is a reworked version of Battleheart’s breakthrough hit. According to Christopher Bowes, this song sparked the band’s interest in making more pirate themed music.
[Verse 1]
Sailing the seven seas of metal
We thirst for blood, your ship is in our sights
Taste a broadside from our cannons of steel
Before our cutlasses of metal you shall kneel
[Chorus]
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
We sail across the sky
In our battleships of cosmic steel
We're the terror up on high
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
Our cutlasses are true
So give us all your treasure
Or soon we'll come for you
(Yea-arr!)
[Verse 2]
The wind is in our sails, and fate is on our side
So raise the Jolly Roger and sail into the night
We're warriors of steel upon the Spanish Main
No quarter for the poseurs, we'll bring them death and pain
[Chorus]
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
We sail across the sky
In our battleships of cosmic steel
We're the terror up on high
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
Our cutlasses are true
So give us all your treasure
Or soon we'll come for you
(Yea-arr!)
[Solo]
[Outro]
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
We sail across the sky
In our battleships of cosmic steel
We're the terror up on high
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
Our cutlasses are true
So give us all your treasure
Or soon we'll come for you
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
We sail across the sky
In our battleships of cosmic steel
We're the terror up on high
We are Heavy Metal Pirates
Our cutlasses are true
So give us all your treasure
Or soon we'll come for you
(Yea-arr!)
Heavy Metal Pirates was written by Christopher Bowes.
Heavy Metal Pirates was produced by Lasse Lammert.
Alestorm released Heavy Metal Pirates on Thu Oct 30 2008.