The stories behind Treasure Is a Part Number

• The Shanty-Meets-Metal Sound of "Treasure Is a Part Number" — A pirate-metal arrangement borrows a sea shanty's gang vocals and gallops them over a heavier low end.
• Treasure Is a Part Number: The Shanty About Hunting Down One Part — A rowdy sea shanty turns the unglamorous hunt for a single back-ordered part into a treasure quest.

Lyrics

Set sail from the loading dock at dawn

Six shops called and every lead is gone

Somewhere out there one box holds the key

A part number scrawled on a torn old sheet

Heave away, we're hunting treasure

One small part, no greater measure

Dig the shells and raid the crate

Bring it home before it's too late

Hey, hey,

The old machine sits waiting in her berth

Half prepared since the day of her birth

We've called the docks from coast to coast

A tiny gear worth more than gold to most

Hey, give away, we're hunting treasure

One small part, no greater measure

Dig the shells and raid the crate

Bring it home before it's too late

Hey, hey, awaiting parts, hey, hey, we mark the law

Hey, hey, awaiting parts, through fire and fall

No flag, no chest, no pirate's goal

Just a number on a work order roll

But when it lands, and she runs again

That's the richest treasure a crew can win

Leave away, we're hunting treasure

One small part, no greater measure

Dig the shells and raid the crates

Bring it home,

before it's too late

Land ho, the box has come