That human affairs were being watched
No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century
That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space
No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised
As someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours
Regarded this Earth with envious eyes
And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us
Space
No one would have believed
No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised
As someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours
Regarded this Earth with envious eyes
And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us
And yet
Across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours
Regarded this Earth with envious eyes
And yet, no one would have believed
They drew their plan