《The Eve Of The War (Tilt’s Red Dawn Mix)》歌词

[00:00:06] No one would have believed

[00:00:08] In the last years of the nineteenth century

[00:00:10] That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space

[00:00:15] No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water

[00:00:24] Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets

[00:00:28] And yet across the gulf of space

[00:00:31] Minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes

[00:00:36] And slowly and surely they drew their plans against us

[00:00:40] At midnight on the 12th of August

[00:00:41] A huge mass of luminous green gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth

[00:02:48] Across two hundred million miles of void

[00:03:16] Invisibly hurtling towards us came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth

[00:03:21] As I watched there was another jet of gas

[00:03:22] It was another missile starting on its way

[00:03:24] And that's how it was for the next ten nights

[00:03:25] A flare spurting out from Mars

[00:03:26] Bright green drawing a green mist behind it a beautiful but somehow disturbing sight

[00:04:09] Ogilvy the astronomer assured me we were in no danger

[00:04:45] He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote forbidding planet

[00:05:14] The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said

[00:05:15] The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one

[00:06:03] But still they come

[00:06:04] Then came the night the first missile approached Earth

[00:06:05] It was thought to be an ordinary falling star

[00:06:07] But the next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common

[00:06:09] And Ogilvy came to examine what lay there

[00:07:06] A cylinder thirty yards across glowing hot and with faint sounds of movement coming from within

[00:07:08] Suddenly the top began moving rotating unscrewing and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape

[00:07:10] He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal

[00:07:13] The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said

[00:07:14] The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one

[00:07:22] But still they come

[00:07:23] Yes the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said

[00:08:42] The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one

[00:08:43] But still they come

[00:08:44] It seems totally incredible to me now that everyone spent that evening as though it were just like any other

[00:08:46] From the railway station came the sound of shunting trains ringing and rumbling softened almost into melody by the distance

[00:08:49] It all seemed so safe and tranquil