The Message

Got to work in the morning

Still stuck in a dream

Cooped up on moonlab

I went to the screen

Years of waiting

Still no sign of hope

Then I saw a light flash on the radio telescope

I couldn't believe it

Heart turned to stone

I tried to swallow

I picked up the phone

I said to my assistent

You won't believe this but

I don't give a damn

I've just received a message

Come over here

As soon as you can now hurry

Earth calling moonlab

It's too early to say but we

Believe the signal's about a thousand light years away

Whatever form of life it is

For all we know

Might be extinct now

Wiped out centuries ago

Shut up

Locate the planet

Communication has begun

It's from the second nearest star system to our

Sun now

There it is

You'd like to see us but that cannot be

We cannot even reach you with simple telepathy

Your mind is not developed

You'd find us much too strange

You see

We have no structure

We constantly change

We merge with our surroundings

We fluidly adapt our shape

If we came down now

You would be the form we'd take

Do you understand

Do you understand

Do you understand