SCIENTIST This was an opportunity That I could not ignore The dream of every scientist To chart the unexplored When we left the Earth to begin the search For a way to heal our dying world Through induced sleep dreams came to me Of all the things that we might see When I had opened my eyes Such unbelievable sights Beneath my feet there lay Novae terrae COMMANDER Citizens! Fate hangs in the balance We've dispatched space-crafts to charter other planets There's no other hope, the Earth is expiring The Scientists are called to divulge all their findings No stone unturned, no thing left to chance The answer's out here in the great expanse ANNEALID We watched as they came Earth ships descending Should we be afraid? Or do they come in peace? SCIENTIST We spent months digging in the frozen ground Without any answers to be found Until the day I heard a sound And saw it there when I turned around It stared at me, it seemed to grin Neon veins beneath a crystalline skin Like the bioluminescence of a deep-sea squid We called them the Annealids They showed us how they communicate They flooded words into our minds We asked them back to Earth with us They trusted us, we seemed so kind We bragged of our hospitality Boasting with such Earthly pride Looking back, now I see Shamefully, that we had lied