i don't know what made me go out that night at that hour i'd normally been in bed but i found myself lookin' up at the sky at a very bright light straight overhead it flashed green...then red...santa claus colors....i stood there frozen in that light then i started hearin' this kind of a whir the lights got louder and the noise got brighter and i felt a sudden chill, brrr it was cold...shouldn't have gone out without a coat... my mom was right again....
then this big old spaceship floated down and hovered 3 feet above the earth never been so scared in all my life could've given spontaneous birth if i was a woman...and pregnant
then these two little guys about 4 feet tall jumped off that space age greyhound bus they grabbed me by the arms and said start walkin dan, you're comin' with us abduction...they didn't actually speak, but i understood 'em...tele-pathy....
they strapped me down to this metal crate took out this 35-foot long hose they said don't worry, this won't hurt then they stuck that sucker up my nose aal the way up...i knew my nose was long, but this was a surprise....
they examined me from head to toe stuck prods in every orifice this cold grey box came and gave me a kiss then extracted a couple of quarts of piss i felt dehydrated
then they waved this wand all 'round my head said now we're readin' your brain, you see you got an awful lot of songs in there though it seems like they're all in the key of G i said what about marilyn, thta's in D...they said D flat, actually...i said yeah, because i tune down a half step; what about hannibal...they said what about hannibal... i said well technically it's in G but it's really a dropped D tuning capo'd up...they said how come you don't play the harmonica more...i said how come i'm in a space- ship, talkin' to aliens about my act...they said we'd rather talk physics, but you're illiterate there...couldn't argue...
they dropped me someplace in brazil took a month to get back to the USA when i told my friends what i'd been through no one believed what i had to say that sucked...it's to be expected though; most people think hannibal's in straight tuning....
well my life's back to normal now i do the things i always do 'cept once a week i meet with 12 other folks who've been abducted too i tell my story...they tell theirs...i don't believe them, though....
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