First Contact

They promised us a world with no hunger or disease,
They’d introduce new agricultural methods, Africa could grow ten times as much.
They’d get rid of all warfare, and the money spent on war
Would be spent on new technologies,
Hospitals, building homes and universities.

These changes would be phased in over the next forty years,
Low paid workers would be safeguarded,
Their families would receive enormous benefits.

And they wanted us to pay how much tax?

We sent the UN weapons inspectors on to their spaceships,
To see if they’d find evidence of alien weapons of mass destruction.
The captain said he used the main engines in deep space,
Don’t use it too close to the ground or it starts forest fires or makes the ocean boil.

We see this awful weapon being carefully researched,
We send our aircraft to bomb them out of the skies,
They have become our enemy.
They quietly let us bomb them, they’ve no weapons anyway,
The concept of a war is quite beyond them,
So they’ve no way to defend themselves.

We continue the war against them because we want Earth to be free,
We don’t want the world to end up in the hands of a socialist dictatorship.