Woken up in the dark of night I thought I must be dead Small naked men with large black eyes Standing all 'round my bed We were sensible people We were intelligent people We were honest people But nobody believed us We were normal people Ordinary people And everyone laughed when we told them That we'd been abducted by alien creatures They spoke without breathing or moving their lips I thought I was going insane No sound seemed to come from out of their mouths The words just appeared in my brain They took us out in the garden And I know this must sound daft But a beam of light came down on our heads And pulled us up into their craft We were sensible people We were intelligent people We were honest people But nobody believed us We were normal people Ordinary people But everyone laughed when we told them That we'd been abducted by alien creatures They said that they came from Earth in the future Destroyed by a nuclear war The radiation had caused their mutation And their women had babies no more So we interbred and they took the eggs So they could have children like us Then they dropped us off on the wrong side of town And we had to go home on the bus We were sensible people We were intelligent people We were honest people But nobody believed us We were normal people Ordinary people But everyone laughed when we told them That we'd been abducted by alien creatures We were sensible people We were intelligent people We were honest people But nobody believed us We were normal people Ordinary people But everyone laughed when we told them That we'd been abducted by alien creatures Everyone laughed when we told them That we'd been abducted by alien creatures Everyone laughed when we told them That we'd been abducted by alien creatures