I've Seen the Saucers Lyrics
Rumours spreading into panic
I've seen movements in the clearing
Someone sent you something satanic
Outside somebody landed
Crazy wavelengths leave you helpless
Oh don't forget me I'm so stranded
So many times I'm almost in tune
Watching them flying in formation
Thinking how I could be so immune
I can tell you all you want to know
Something touched me and I was only sleeping
Wouldn't you, wouldn't you like to go
Systems won, controlled from birth
Empty living on this highway
Can you see me mother earth
Wonder what's cooking at home tonight
Maybe if I promise not to say a word
They can get me back before the morning light
On the surface it's a parody of 1950s SciFi sung by someone who's secretly complicit with the aliens. At the end of the song it sounds as if they've abducted him.
In hindsight however it sounds like a very clever coming out song which makes "gay panic" ludicrously melodramatic.
I wish other people would comment on this song. This is one of my favorite songs from Caribou.
My personal interpretation is that the narrator is one of those cooky UFO conspiracy theorists who doesn't realize how crazy he is, trying to convince someone else (maybe a wife/girlfriend) to "Join" him.
I don't know, thats just my surface interpretation
Dwight, stop forcing this pompous, useless,worthless tripe on us, you fur-reek
@exobscura Give it a rest, doofus.
@exobscura Give it a rest, doofus.