In a purple vision   Many thousand years ago   I saw the silent stranger   Walk the earth alone      Twenty-seven faces   With their eyes turned to the sky   I've got a camera   And an airtight alibi      I know they're out there   We see them coming   Faster than the speed of light   They greet us in the dead of the night      Somewhere, someday, someone   They'll be light and sound   They'll alight on the ground   On which we stand      Somewhere, someday, someone   Will help us to survive   They're gonna show us hell   And bring us back alive      Well, I'm no poet, but I can't be fooled   The lies don't count, the whispers do   I hear the whispers on the wind   They say the earth has fallen due      We run in circles   Our days are numbered   Every night I look away   To the heavens and I pray      Come to us   Come to us      Our lights are dim   Our roads are crumbling   And we don't know what to do   We're sick and tired   And dying to meet you   'cause we bit off more than   We can chew