FLIGHT OF MALIBU: ANNOTATED

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  1. Overture
  2. I Promised You Space Pirates
  3. Earth vs. Aforementioned Aliens
  4. Abandon the Sky

Overture

...is an instrumental track

I Promised You Space Pirates

We must escape the galactic federation
We lack the strength or wit to survive
Where once we dared to dream above our station
'Twer lucky few who made it out alive

What once was excellence now mediocre
They cast us down in hatred and disdain
There's no altruism for us to hope for We 21 shall know but crime and pain

Ayn Rand Land is a bleak dystopia of oppression and fear
But is there hope
But my brothers we shall find freedom if we band together here
We're still doomed though

If you play their games, you will not last
'Tis lucky few ascend the fountain head
Band with us and though you be outcast
Every day you fight's a day not dead

Ayn Rand Land is a bleak dystopia of oppression and fear
So bleak it burns our souls
But is there hope
But my brothers we shall find freedom if we band together here
Shall find the pirate code
We're still doomed though

Behind us lies a glassy furnace of blazing bridges and ports
But each burnt bridge is a road not taken to death and lives cut short
Yo ho
Behind us lies a glassy furnace of blazing bridges and ports
Yo ho
But each burnt bridge is a road not taken to death and lives cut short

Captain you promised lives as free men
But all we've found is death where'er we roam
If you don't wish to be cast adrift again
You'd better find us a more permanent home

Ayn Rand Land is a bleak dystopia of oppression and fear
So bleak it burns our souls
But is there hope
But my brothers we shall find freedom if we band together here
Shall find the pirate code
We're still doomed

Earth vs. Aforementioned Aliens

She's ripe for the taking boys
They couldn't even hurt us if they tried
We'll fire the cannons and make some noise
Their puny forces have already died

And the life of quiet dignity we've earned is ours to take as soon as mankind's burned

Wait my friends that's not as captain taught us
Never should the strong oppress the weak
What good have the years of villainy brought us
If we can't lead the better lives we seek

And the life of quiet dignity we crave can ne'er be ours if any man's enslaved

Miller, would you turn on us
I expect better from you
This is our dream; we've reached the cusp
You'd turn back after all we've been through

And the life of quiet dignity we've earned is ours to take as soon as mankind's burned

Wait! My friends before we do this murder
Should not the captain at least be asked
He'll tell you Earth is fragile; please don't hurt her
We'll find a home; we must get back on task

And the life of quiet dignity we crave can ne'er be ours if any man's enslaved

Kill them
Save them
Murder and enslave them
We can be heroes
We can be kings
We can live at peace, men
We can destroy them
Captain shall we conquer Earth
Captain shall we conquer Earth
Captain shall we conquer Earth

Abandon the Sky

It's good you brought this to my attention lads
Before the situation spiraled out of hand
The Miller's right; we should not attack the Earth
But don't wax mutinous, my merry band

Their forces are stronger than they look and we 12 aren't up to the task
But don't feel sad, for I have a trump! Here's a map to a weapons cache

But Miller's wrong it's the low-hanging fruit
Short of a barren uninhabitable place
Which's all'd be left by a frontal assault
They'd use their nukes and leave us nothing but waste

Their forces are stronger than they look and we 12 aren't up to the task
But don't feel sad, for I have a trump! Here's a map to a weapons cache

With subtlety we can have so much more
Than we e'er though possible before

But what of Miller? We can't trust him now
Not with the Federation nipping at our napes
Our profile will stay low if we leave him here
See how he likes them after a decade with these apes

With subtlety we can have so much more
Than we e'er though possible before
With subtlety we can have so much more
Than we e'er though possible before

See this plot unfold further...