If It Wasn't For The UFOs... Lyrics

The gold mountain cut a figure on his empty can

Thinking of the gold of El Dorado

And the music of the Utah Jazz

He dreamed of moving to Miami as he pulled the tabs

Hidden in a bungalow

However many years ago

Glued to anyone who would listen

Giving them the blow by blow

He probably would have died civilian

If it wasn't for the UFOs

Now that I recall it all

I left my body on the day I had to leave the house

I left my home long ago

Left my family

Didn't have no doubts

They say you sold your soul

But you know that you're the one

Who cut the deal with Faust

Try to think of what you've lost

Peel away the semi-gloss

Dying at the side of Jesus

Only hanging from a plastic cross

You'll know that you survived the rapture

If anyone around you coughs

Around you coughs

Lives ago we dug our hands in the ground

Thinking we could stay forever

If it wasn't for the UFOs

Where do we go when we're coming back into town

I think we got turned around

We would have never had to leave our home

If it wasn't for the UFOs

The sticky heat of pandemonium has turned to fall

The cold, quiet morning interrupted by the wrecking ball

The dying sun is throwing shadows on the eastern wall

Reinvented in these rooms

We never had to leave the womb

The little girl behind the bamboo

Is what I'm terrified to lose

Darling, we'd have died on Ashmore

If there wasn't something else to do

There's nothing else to do

Lives ago we dug our hands in the ground

Thinking we could stay forever

If it wasn't for the UFOs

Where do we go when we're coming back into town

I think we got turned around

We would have never had to leave our home

Lives ago we dug our hands in the ground

Thinking we could stay forever

If it wasn't for the UFOs

Where do we go when we're coming back into town

I think we got turned around

We would have never had to leave our home

If it wasn't for the UFOs