Abney Park - Airship Pirate

[If you like this song, check out their other songs from their other albums Lost Horizons and Æther Shanties and many more!
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Our fires high and the airbags tight
Food's low but the skies are bright
Props spinning all through the night
We're low on cash but seen another target

Goggles down and the cannons up
My blood starts pumping as I drain my cup
I give the wheel a spin and I turn this girl around
We're way above ground but we're closed in on our target

Flying Jib is filled with air
East India ships filled with despair
We even up, her broadsides bare
Our cannons flair but its just a show of muscle

Steady on, she doesnt need to burn
She tries to flee and she tries to turn
Grappling fire, we latch her hull
Shes starting to roll, but weve got her on a leash

With a crew of drunken pilots
Were the only airship pirates
Were full of hot air and were starting to rise
Were the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now

Expendable crew starts to reel her in
Our swords are sharpened and we're ready to sin
Im three miles up, we're about to swing aboard
My tether's made of leather so Im not about to fall here

A swish of air and my boots hit deck
No cash, no fuel, no not a speck
Our grape shots made this bird a wreck
And a glance below deck shows a crew of nuns and orphans

With a crew of drunken pilots
Were the only airship pirates
Were full of hot air and were starting to rise
Were the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves

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[Sir Richard Greynvile]

Alternate Victorian Era Universe where the Internal Combustion Engine doesn't exist. Everything is Steam or Clockwork powered which is how electricity is generated. Read Jules Verne & H.G. Wells, they started the genre & S.M. Stirling's "Peshawar Lancers",Katie MacAlister's "Steamed: A Steampunk Romance", Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". It's not just about wearing goggles on your head while wearing Victorian Era clothing & stitching cogs & gears onto them.

[rocktalon2]

Had to play this while assaulting a airship in a minecraft mod.

[Strype McClaine]

Its not what its all about.

But, to be frank, we do love the goggles.

So so much.

[JasanQuinn]

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction.

[peouquieu]

that would be sci-fi

[Lucy Rayson]

HELL YEAH! >:D

xD

[SchattenKrieger95]

Listen to this while playing Guns of Icarus online :D

[DemOnicxFEAR]

DAMN IT SOMEONE SAID IT BEFORE ME!!

[nick adkins]

i play this when i am playing guns of icarus :D



[Zach Smith]

had to play this while playing War Thunder

flying a german Junkers 88

[pgsteampunk]

yes, it can also be like this:-) your interpretation is another way of expressing an ucronistic reality. this is what steampunk does, it drags you to a ucronistic world.

[monkeytail2002]

I'd more say that it is what people think the present or fututure would be now if there was a divergence in the time stream caused by a horseless steam carriage that goes as fast as 88mph and at this divergence the combustion engine didn't get discovered in the new time line. Thus steam and clockwork technology is our best means of powering things in time stream. ;)