Key: D minor
Intro 1
No one would have believed
In the last years of the nineteenth century
That human affairs were being watched
from the timeless worlds of space
No one could have dreamed
that we were being scrutinized
As someone with a microscope studies
creatures that swarm and multiply
in a drop of water
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
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Interlude 1
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Verse 1
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A huge mass of luminous gas erupted
Across two hundred million miles of void,
Came the first of the missiles
that were to bring so much calamity to Earth
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As I watched, there was another jet of gas
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It was another missile, starting on its way
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Verse 2
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And that's how it was
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for the next ten nights
A flare, spurting out from Mars
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Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it,
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a beautiful but somehow disturbing sight
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Ogilvy, the astronomer,
assured me we were in no danger
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He was convinced there could be
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no living thing on that remote,
forbidding planet
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"The chances of anything coming from Mars
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are a million to one" he said
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"The chances of anything coming from Mars
Verse 3
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Then came the night the first missile
approached Earth
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It was thought to be an ordinary falling star
But the next day there was a huge crater
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in the middle of the Common,
and Ogilvy came to examine what lay there
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A cylinder, thirty yards across,
glowing hot,
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and with faint sounds of movement
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coming from within
Suddenly the top began began moving,
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rotating, unscrewing
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He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat
himself on the metal
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"The chances of anything coming from Mars
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are a million to one" he said
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"The chances of anything coming from Mars
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But still they come
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are a million to one" he said
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"The chances of anything coming from Mars
Outro 1
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(come)
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