Karaoké Eve of the War Jeff Wayne & Richard Burton & Justin Hayward

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century

That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space

No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized

As someone with a 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 ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes

And slowly and surely they drew their plans against us

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