ANNEALID They descended in ships we had never seen Except for in some half-forgotten dream They seemed to know each one of our names They began speaking to us telepathically ELDER ANNEALID Dearest Annealids, we've heard your call We've come to stop the Earthmen, once and for all Remember this day, now that you've seen The confusion, the terror upon their faces By their depravity People of Earth, listen to us now Your reaping will cease, we've destroyed your plow We've captured your Commander, he is now our prisoner You are outnumbered, your firepower rendered inferior We hail from the Galaxy's most powerful nation We've heard the call of our distant relations We used this planet for incubation While we left to build our vast civilizations We've come for our children! The children you've stolen! We've come for our children! To our future beholden! You tried to kill them You tried to skin them Our Annealid children Helpless Now the tables have turned upon their captors We have saved them all from the reaper's scythe We have seen all we need to see Primitive society Dominating lesser beings We have seen all we need to see Man’s inhumanity Satisfying your own needs COMMANDER How were we to know? Your children seem as beasts of burden to men And if I thought that it could save our species I'd do it all over again ELDER ANNEALID Reckless Malice Thoughtless Avarice Careless Hopeless Ruthless Cowardice Bloodlust Disgust Selfish Foolish (Guitar solo #4 “Human Nature”) Hasty Desperate Greedy Petty Mindless Feckless This is justice! Now we leave the humans to their fate Reduced their numbers to eliminate Left them helpless in this sorry state No God left to save them, it’s too late Their fleet destroyed, their tech erased Crawling, pleading, dying, no sympathy There is only one we wish to save… COMMANDER You must be joking! What could you possibly gain from amnestying this duplicitous bitch? Do with me what thou wilt, but if you keep this wretch It's clear to me that tech or not There's still no curing the plight of fools Do you think she can be loyal even when she turned her back on her own kind? If you think she won’t be trouble, then it seems you're even greater fools than I You may have bested me here today, creature, and savaged my battalions But we have a saying back here on Earth... Life finds a way... SCIENTIST I cut you apart Did as I was told I don't deserve mercy Human hearts are cold I accept my fate I’ll go without a fight At least I’ll die knowing I tried to do what was right… (To be continued…)