Songlist with Alien/Otherworldly References

Hi! I want to start a list of songs ya'll know which might reference/allude to this topic. I'll include two for starters. I hope to get some contributions and thank you in advance for checking this out/posting!


BUILT TO SPILL - "RANDY DESCRIBED ETERNITY"
FROM THE ALBUM "PERFECT FROM NOW ON"

every thousand years
this metal sphere
ten times the size of Jupiter
floats just a few yards past the earth
you climb on your roof
and take a swipe at it
with a single feather
hit it once every thousand years
`til you've worn it down
to the size of a pea
yeah I'd say that's a long time
but it's only half a blink
in the place you're gonna be

where you gonna be
where will you spend eternity
I'm gonna be perfect from now on
I'm gonna be perfect starting now
stop making that sound
stop making that sound
I will say I forgot it
but it was only yesterday
and it's all you had to say


NINE INCH NAILS - "THE WARNING" FROM THE ALBUM "YEAR ZERO"

Some say it was a warning
Some say it was a sign
I was standing right there
When it came down from the sky
They were expecting us
We felt it from inside
Said it was up to us
Up to us to decide

You've become a virus
That's eaten up its host
We've been watching you with all our eyes
And what you seem to value most
"I don't want your attention," so you used to say
Your greed, self-importance and your elegance
Wish it all way

May be a crime
We've come to intervene
You can change your ways
And we will wipe this place clean

Your time is tick-tick-ticking away

[edit on 5-10-2007 by anhinga]

SIXTY WATT SHAMAN - "RED COLONY"
FROM THE ALBUM - "SEED OF DECADES"

I spent time on the mountain
Brought blood up from the hills
Wrought iron and stone made company of me
Taught me the way of the lone
10,000 years of exile
From the breast of my motherland
Please Mosigh send spacecraft again
To carry us back to our home

Great sun bleed your breath on my neck
While I strangle the vagrant
Old soul I reject
Embracing my steps
Towards the valleys stream
A place for your landing erected
In symbols that cry to the sky
Stars mark the pathway
Red sand, cold burn
On forgotten Martian Earth

Old fathers, come save me
Your ships sailed here before
Pyramids and temples
Call to your angels
Long for your return
This red colony left here
Silenced from mother tongue
Don't leave us like you did Egypt
Craving escape, from this world

Red colony

There's probably hundreds of them.Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden has a song called Abduction. Dunno the lyrics. And I'm sure RUSH's Twilight Zone was written about some old Canadian UFO experience that hit the headlines once. There's a Scottish group called CEIV and I think all their songs are alien/UFO related. As for otherwordly, Led Zeppelin have plenty. They've a song about LOTR and Mordor & stuff.

[edit on 5-10-2007 by wigit]

Try the band Evergrey.

All of the song lyrics in their 2001 album "In Search of Truth" are about aliens
It's a conceptual album anyway - the songs are all connected and it is all one big Alien/Conspiracy story - Illuminati, mind control, abductions, bizarre experiments - it's all there.

The music is pretty good too - melodic progressive metal.
I think that this band definitely deserves the attention of all ATS members.

Oh!
How could I forget about Hypocrisy - another great metal band from Sweden.

Their latest CDs are also entirely dedicated to aliens.
One of their albums is even called "Abducted".



What else is to say?


And make sure to check out their video "Eraser". It's like a small sci-fi/horror film.
It is about aliens, of course!
Here is a link to the video: youtube.com...

Originally posted by The_Guy
Try the band Evergrey.

All of the song lyrics in their 2001 album "In Search of Truth" are about aliens
It's a conceptual album anyway - the songs are all connected and it is all one big Alien/Conspiracy story - Illuminati, mind control, abductions, bizarre experiments - it's all there.

The music is pretty good too - melodic progressive metal.
I think that this band definitely deserves the attention of all ATS members.

Evergrey is a great band, and I can't believe I haven't heard that album yet. I'll get it ASAP.

There's also another new-ish metal band called Augury, who's lyrical themes are all about conspiracy theories. Great music if you like progressive death metal.

[edit on 5-10-2007 by GeeGee]

Roger Waters:
Amused to Death:

And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

I forgot 2 of funniest I know of. I have only included the relevant parts. Very tongue-in-cheek.

CLUTCH - "ESCAPE FROM THE PRISON PLANET"
FROM THE ALBUM - "CLUTCH"

And to the tune of a million dollars I supplied the DOE
Some tasty little nuggets of alien technolgy
And as one might expect, I been harassed for years
The Men In Black have been bending my ears
In fact, they were just here today
But I escaped them through a secret passageway
Once I lived there for thousand days

I have plans for the future, I guess they're futurustic plans
Move out West and buy some desert lands
Maybe up North, just past Alaska
You know nothing of this if they ask you
Red rover, red rover, Bob Lazar's coming over
So honey clear the airstrip and light up that stove
By Jove, I think it's started

Billion people harvest on Mars
Rebuild the remnants of the obelisk
One mile from the pyramid


CLUTCH - "ANIMAL FARM"
FROM - "CLUTCH"

Meanwhile...planes drop from the sky
People dissappear and bullets fly
Little grey men are coming our way
Tastes just like chicken they say
Actually they're all around
Secret bunkers underground
Round 'em up, skin 'em alive
Rolling, rolling, rolling rawhide

Carter is a clone
Dozen brothers 'round the globe
MJ-12 damned us to hell
Scroll & Key, Skull & Bone
It's only just begun
The best is yet to come
Area 51
The spawn of Babylon

Geezer - Area Code 51 from the album Black Science



Area Code 51
Groom Lake I spy upon
I hear them lying in my head
Dreamland is not a dream
This place not what it seems
I hear them lying in my head.

The Aliens are coming
And the World is succumbing
Flying Saucers have landed on Earth
The Invasion is coming

Here we are all around you, no time to hide
The Proof is out there

Area Code 51
Groom Lake I'll die upon
I hear them flying in my head

Nowhere for me to hide
Beneath electric skies
They're here and flying in my head

The Aliens are coming
And the World is succumbing
Flying Saucers have landed on Earth
The Invasion is coming.

Yngwie Malmsteen
"Hangar 18, Area 51"

Beams of light up in the sky
Malfunctioned machinery, lost in time
Don't understand, I'm wondering why
How can this happen its so out of line
Strangers among us
from beyond the stars
Whatever you know keep your silence
Unearthly ones from galaxies afar
There will be violence

They know something
that we don't know
What cannot be seen they'll never show
Hangar 18, Area 51

Hangar 18

For me to recall, they hypnotize
It's all part of investigations
They say that I just fantasize
Just try to explain mutilations

They know something
that we don't know
What cannot be seen they'll never show
Hangar 18, Area 51
We're victims of grad illusion
Now we're lost in mass confusion
Hangar 18, Area 51

Hangar 18

Hangar 18

They know something
that we don't know
What cannot be seen they'll never show
Hangar 18, Area 51
We're victims of grad illusion
Now we're lost in mass confusion
Hangar 18, Area 51



Megadeth
"Hangar 18"

Welcome to our fortress tall
Take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world
Instruments to sight the stars

Possibly Ive seen to much
Hangar 18 I know too much

Foreign life forms inventory
Suspended state of cryogenics
Selective amnesias the story
Believed foretold but whod suspect
The military intelligence
Two words combined that cant make sense

Possibly Ive seen to much
Hangar 18 I know too much

Artist: Hypocrisy
Album: Maximum Abduction
Title: "Roswell 47"

Their freedom was taken away
as they crashed
To be abducted for research
The experiment will make sure
they won't last
Are there still som alive ones?

The incident was shut down,
because national security
was in jeopardy
They said a weatherballoon chrashed,
but we know it's bull#
We have the right to know what really happened i
Roswell 47!!

Shipping back pieces to hangar,
to slowly put it together
To find new weapon technology,
and maybe an answer how to live forever!!

Afraid of, spreading the disease, chaos and confusion
The energy and physics law will be worthless
But we have the right to know
what really happened in
Roswell 47!!

They came to visit us in secret, but something really happened
They lost control, and crashed in Roswell 1947
1947!!!!

Try looking at some MUSE, they're freaking awesome but also have loads of conspiracy related stuff within their lyrics.

The lead singer is a self confessed conspiracy geek and I'm sure he's a member of ATS or at the very least a lurker... so...

I saw you guys in HK and you rocked. Best Band to play here in, well forever really!!

MonKey - I will get a vid!!





And this from the Album of the same name!!



Enjoy! I could resist getting two!!

MonKey

frank zappas 'inca roads' is my favorite

Did a vehicle
Come from somewhere out there
Just to land in the Andes?
Was it round
And did it have
A motor
Or was it
Something
Different

George: Sure was different. I ain't never seen nothing like that in my entire life!
Napoleon: Whose python boot is that? That ain't my sh-- What?
FZ: Why don't you sharpen it then?

George: Little round ball . . . I could . . . couldn't . . . That white cain't do nothin'
Napoleon: Je-he-zus! Wait a minute!
FZ: Mother Mary and Jozuf!

Did a vehicle
Did a vehicle
Did a vehicle
Fly along the mountains
And find a place to park itself
Park it
Se-e-e-elf
(PARK IT . . . PARK IT)

Or did someone
Build a place
To leave a space
For such a thing to land

Did a vehicle
Come from somewhere out there
Did a vehicle come
From somewhere out there
Did the Indians, first on the bill
Carve up the hill

Did a booger-bear
Come from somewhere out there
Just to land in the Andes?
Was she round
And did she have a motor
Or was she something different

Guacamole Queen
Guacamole Queen
Guacamole Queen

At the Armadillo in Austin Texas, her aura,
Or did someone build a place
Or leave a space for Chester's Thing to land
(Chester's Thing . . . on Ruth)
Did a booger-bear
Come from somewhere out there
Did a booger-bear
Come from somewhere out there
Did the Indians, first on the bill
Carve up her hill
On Ruth
On Ruth
That's Ruth

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joe satriani 'surfing with the alien'(cd title)

Great! Keep it up! Video links are cool but let's try to keep posting LYRICS, seems to be a thread that hasn't bee covered yet. Here's two more, Pixies songs....

THE PIXIES - "THE HAPPENING"
FROM THE ALBUM "BOSSANOVA"

They got a ranch they call
Number fifty-one
They got a ranch they call
Number fifty-one
Cant see it all
less your flying by
Just sitting there square
Baking in the sun
Beneath the sky

They're gonna put it down
Right on the strip
They're gonna put it down
On the Vegas strip
They're gonna put it down
And step outside
Into the lights
Right outta that ship
Saying hi!

I was driving doing nothing on the shores of great salt lake
When they put it on the air I put it in the hammer lane
I soon forgot myeslf and I forgot about the brake
I forgot all laws and I forgot about the rain
They were talking on the 9 and all across the Army band
Across the road they were turning around and headed south with me
It got so crowded on the road I started driving in the sand
My head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free
The desert turned to mud it seems that everybody heard
Everybody was remembering to forget they had the chills
Then I heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird
They were getting interviewed by some good man whose name was Bill
I'm almost there to Vegas where they're puttin' on a show
They've come so far Ive lived this long at least I must just go and say
Hello

THE PIXIES - "MOTORWAY TO ROSWELL"
FROM THE ALBUM "TROMPE LE MONDE"

Last night he could not make it
he tried hard but could not make it
last night he could not make it
on a holiday
for many miles
looking for a place to stay
near some friendly star
he found this mote
and now we wonder where we are
how could this so great
turn so s****y
he ended up in army crates
and photographs in files
his tiny boat
sparked as he turned to grazed our city
i started driving on the motorway
i was feeling down
last night he could not make it
last night he could not make it
he tried hard but he could not make it
last night he could not make it
on a holiday
so many miles
looking for a place to stay
near some friendly star
he found this mote
and now we wonder
how could this so great
turn so s**t
he ended up in army crates
and photographs in files
his tiny boat
sparked as he grazed it
he started heading for the motorway
and he came right now.

Im sure not many rap fans, but this guy really is on a different level.

Jay z freestyle.

"I be crushing the buildings since Izod socks
I'm so independent, # I might buy Koch
I might not stop, places to cop
76 floors you can call me the Doc…

Inspired by Basquiat, my chariots of fire
Everybody took shots hit my body up I'm tired
Build me up, break me down, to build me up again
They like Hov we need you back so we can kill your ass again
Hov got flow though he's no Big and Pac but he's close
How I'm supposed to win they got me fighting ghosts…

Same sword they knight you they gonna good night you with
# that's only half if they like you
That ain't he even the half what they might do
Don't believe me ask Michael
See Martin, see Malcolm
You see Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas
See Ceasar, see Brutus
See success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
If you succeed prepare to be crucified
Hmm, media meddles, niggas sue you, you settle
Every step you take they remind you, you ghetto
So it's tough being Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you gotta be Bobby now
Now the question is is to have had and lost
Better than not having a….

Everybody want to be the king til shots ring
You laying in the balcony with holes in your dream
Or you Malcolm Xed out getting distracted by screams
Everybody get your hands off my jeans
Everybody look at you strange, say you changed
Uh, like you work that hard to stay the same
Uh, game stayed the same, the name changed
So it's best for those to not overdose on being famous
Most kings get driven so insane
That they try to hit the same vein that Kurt Cobain did
New dangers, so strangers invited to the inner sanctum of your chambers
Low chain them, the enemy's approaching so raise your draw bridge and
drown him into molding
In spirit I'm a Vulcan…

Everybody screaming they want the old Hov
But the new and improved Hov hit like Albert Pujols
Everybody wanna hear me talk that money like Phil Rizzuto
But my mind is on Pluto
Bills that I do fold I now invest on
Trying to find some loopholes in the IRS
That's where I used to have a few hoes I am just
Concentrating on making a new Hov do sex
I've awaken just to try to school those putos
Trying to follow in my shoes with Jew-froes
Better adhere to this text 'fore you go
Broke spending more than you applude on silly baguettes
I know silly baguettes, silly you learn on your own
At least my conscience is clear, I'm no longer steering you wrong
Ain't nothing wrong with baguettes after you get a home
Take care of your home, you can go back and um…

I'm getting courted by the bosses, the Edgars and Doug Morrises-sss
Jimmy I and Lyor's-sss
Gotta be more than choruses-sss
They respected my mind now, just a matter of time now
Operation take over corporate
Make Oval offices-sss
Than take over all of it
Please may these words be recorded
To serve as testimony that I saw it all before it
Came to fruition, sort of a premonition
Uh, uncontrollable hustler's ambition
Alias superstitution
Like Stevie, the writing's on the wall like my lady, right BB?
Saw it all before so they all thought I was crazy
Maybe like a fox I'm cagey
Ah, ah, the more successful, the more stressful
The more and more I transform to Gordon Gekko
In the race to a billion, got my face to the ceiling
Got my knees on the floor, please Lord forgive him
Has he lost his religion, is the greed gonna get him?
He's having heaven on earth, will his wings still fit him?
I got the Forbes on my living room floor
And I'm so dope to the core, #er I want more
Time's most influential was impressive
Especially since I wasn't in the artist's section
Had me with the builders and the titans
Had me right with Rubert Murdoch
Billionaire boys and some dudes you never heard of
Word up on Madison Ave is I'm a cash cow
Word down on Wall St. homie you get the cash out
IBO Hov no need for reverse merger
The boy money talks no need to converse further
The baby blue Maybach like I own Gerber
Boardroom I'm lifting your skirt up
The corporate take nigga….

I feel ya Mailman, I think JZ got sick flow, great excerpt; Zack de la is right up there in the flow catagory for me, check this one:

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - "DOWN RODEO"
FROM THE ALBUM "EVIL EMPIRE"

A ballots dead so a bullet's what I get
A thousand years they had tha tools
We should be takin' 'em
F**k tha G-ride I want the machines that are makin' em
Our target straight wit a room full of armed pawn to
Off tha kings out tha west side at dawn

Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse
Make a move and plead the fifth 'cause ya can't plead the first
Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun
These people ain't seen a brown skin man
Since their grandparents bought one

The rungs torn from the ladder can't reach the tumour
One god, one market, one truth, one consumer


RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - "PEOPLE OF THE SUN"
FROM THE ALBUM "EVIL EMPIRE"

Since 1516 minds attacked and overseen, now
Crawl amidst the ruins of this
Empty dream
They're boredrs and boots on top of us, pullin'
Knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
So how you gonna get what you need to get? tha
Gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like
Tet
When the fifth sun sets get back reclaim, tha
Spirit of cuahtemoc alive an untamed
Face tha funk now blastin' out ya
Speaker, on the one maya, mexica
That volture came ta try and steal ya name but
Now you found a gun
This is for the people of the sun
It's comin' back around again
This is for tha people of tha sun
Neva forget that tha wip snapped ya back, ya
Spine cracked for tobacco, oh i'm the marlboro
Man
Our past blastin' on through tha verses,
Brigades of taxi cabs rollin' broadway like
Hearses
Troops strippin' zoots, shots of red mist,
Sailors blood on tha deck,
Come sista resist
Tha new era of terror check this photo lens,
Tha city of angels foes tha ethnic cleanse
Heads bobbin' to that funk out ya
Speaker, on tha one maya, mexica
That vulture came ya try an steal ya name but now
You found a gun... you're history
This is for tha people of the sun
It's comin' back around again
This is for tha people of tha sun

[edit on 6-10-2007 by anhinga]

[edit on 6-10-2007 by anhinga]

Perhaps the Greatest Song with otherworldly lyrics/connotations

Zebra Who's Behind the Door

We sailed away
We walked two thousand miles and then we slipped away
We looked so hard
But couldn't seem to find just what the world was for
Now we know
Just what the journey's for
Looking out to the stars
Think about what you are
What do they think of you
Animals in their zoo
They haven't got the time
Landing is not on their minds
How do they have the nerve
We're animals in preserve

They watch us all
They're only making sure that we don't trip and fall
They looked so hard
But they can't tell us why they're here and just what for
Because they don't know
Who opened up the door

How can we find out more
Who owns the keyless door
Where does the circle end
Who are the unwatched men
Where do we go from here
Faith is a fading fear
Life is a waiting room
I hope they don't call me soon

How much more do you really think you know than a flower does about who's behind the door!

I found a really good video on youtube that has a bunch of x-files clips set to the song "Unmarked Helicopters" by Soul Coughing. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com...

[edit on 10/7/07 by Slayer]

[edit on 10/7/07 by Slayer]

...each day I seem to remember another one...

FUGAZI -- "FULL DISCLOSURE"
FROM THE ALBUM "THE ARGUMENT"


i want out
i want a mutually assured destructive
life seizing separate culture to take me over
moving silent like radar
take me over and blow out my mind
full disclosure coming sponsored by no one
take me over and blow out my mind
ejected

How about 'Thirty-Nine by Queen, possibly the only love song that uses time dilation as a lyric device?

For though many years have gone
I am older but a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me

Though sadly the elegiac mood turns to toe-curling embarrassment during the chorus -- 'the land that our grandchildren knew' is a line that can't help but come out sounding stupid.