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Eve Of The War

作词:Jeff Wayne

On one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
That human affairs were been watched by the timeless worlds of space
No one could have dreamed, we would be unscrutinized
As someone with the 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 us
Regarded the Earth with envious eyes
And slowly and surely they drew their plans against us

At midnight, on the 12th of August a huge mass of luminous gas
Erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth
Across two hundred million miles of void

Invisibly hurtling towards us came the first of the missiles
That were to bring so much calamity to Earth
As I watched, there was another jet of gas
It was another missile, starting on its way

And that's how it was for the next ten nights
A flare, spurting out from Mars, bright green
Drawing a green mist behind it
A beautiful but somehow disturbing sight

Ogilvy, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger
He was convinced there could be no living thing
On that remote, forbidding planet

The chances of anything coming from Mars
Are a million to one, he said
The chances of anything coming from Mars
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Are a million to one but still they come

Then came the night the first missile approached Earth
It was thought to be an ordinary falling star
But next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the common
And Ogilvy came to examine what lay there

A cylinder, thirty yards across, glowing hot
With faint sounds of movement coming from within
Suddenly the top began moving, rotating, unscrewing

And Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape
He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him
Before he could burn himself on the metal

The chances of anything coming from Mars
Are a million to one, he said
The chances of anything coming from Mars
Are a million to one but still they come

Yes, the chances of anything coming from Mars
Are a million to one, he said
The chances of anything coming from Mars
Are a million to one but still they come

It seems totally incredible to me now that
Everyone spent that evening as though it was just like any other
From the railway station in the sound of shunting trains
Ringing and rumbling soften almost into melody by the distance

It all seemed so safe and tranquil