United States of Earth ft. Clare Portman Lyrics

They touched down by the roadside of the Route called 66

Like migrants from the dustbowl so many years before

I felt my eyes deceived me as I watched the morning news

A science fiction movie taking place outside my door

They said we come in peace and all the World rejoiced

But then they said, there will be many more

It was night when they came, the darkest hour before the dawn

The leaders of the World agreed we had to draw a line

And they passed a law so quickly that without doubt would define

The genetics of a citizen that matched a ‘divine’ master plan

Two arms, two legs, a native tongue, a woman or a man

And the picket lines were drawn and they cried for ‘human rights’

But we raised the flag of this United Earth

It was night when they came, the darkest hour before the dawn

I hear you call me brother, so pleased to say we found each other

But I’m telling you this manger’s over full

You don’t know what fills my mind, this place belongs to human kind

We’d love to help, but there’s no room at all

They took us to a holding camp and gave us names that made no sense

They screamed at me in words that I couldn’t understand

We watched upon their TV sets

the laws they passed, the peace they made

Before they sent us far away from this United States of Earth

I watched it from the roadside of the Route called 66

A race once proud and mighty evicted from the dustbowl lands

And every country moved as one to point their guns at space

Our human minds convinced a return was what they planned

They never came again though we waited all our lives

And we cursed the flag of this United Earth

It was night when they came, the darkest hour before the dawn