And then the cops came, and took your mum And it makes me wonder all night long Ev'ry body was cool for a long time Then we heard the sirens and saw the lights
We've been awakened from alien sleep tonight We come alive in a dead world It doesn't happen often because of the loss So we hoped the cops hadn't already heard
Gangsters, mutants, and bionic humans Tonight we're gonna party insane Celebrating research; your mother made a breakthrough The others may have called her insane We stay underground so we don't risk them coming around But something couldn't keep them from her
We were never disruptive until they made those lies Maybe if everything wasn't kept classified They wouldn't be coming, oh They come after you
And then the cops came, and took your mum And it makes me wonder all night long Ev'ry body was cool for a long time Then we heard the sirens and saw the lights
We've been awakened from alien sleep tonight We come alive in a dead world It doesn't happen often because of the loss So we hoped the cops hadn't already heard
Damnation, observation, patrol must be underway Cause they can tell when we're in restricted zones Most of us were grown but we had never grown rebellious It just happened naturally on its own
We were never disruptive until they made those lies Maybe if everything wasn't kept classified They wouldn't be coming, oh They're coming after you
And then the cops came, and took your mum And it makes me wonder all night long Ev'ry body was cool for a long time Then we heard the sirens and saw the lights
We've been awakened from alien sleep tonight We come alive in a dead world It doesn't happen often because of the loss But we hoped the cops hadn't already heard
They come and they take us We only know they test us in research laboratories then jail They tell us they're rebuilding, and we'll be here a'filling Until it's our turn to be taken ill
So they came and they took her Without saying a single word But then they turned around They turned and looked at me