The Western Design

In 1654 on Christmas Day the fleet left Portsmouth

The empire casting off

Before the Western design

Private citizens and companies

Managed the work of expansion

Jon Dee, with his scrying mirror

Necromanced the British Empire

Oliver Cromwell kicked it off

Brutal men, sick and untrained

"The worke we may doe in the world"

"The worke we may doe in the world"

They couldn't capture Hispaniola

So they went and found a harbour

The red dawn of England's Empire

400 years

Land of wood and water

Xaymaca

The Arawaks, the Arawaks, the Arawaks was there first

A slave-operated imperial profit generator

The Western design, a giant Frankenstein

400 years of stealing and killing, a giant Frankenstein

Ghostlining the Western design

In 1654 on Christmas Day the fleet left Portsmouth

The empire taking off

Jon Dee, with his scrying mirror

Necromanced the British empire

Oliver Cromwell kicked it off

Brutal men, sick and untrained

"The worke we may doe in the world"

"The worke we may doe in the world"

The Western design, a giant Frankenstein

400 years of stealing and killing, a giant Frankenstein

Ghostlining the Western design

Ghostlining the Western design