Steve Wallis’ musical poem:
To The Earth With Love
Inspired by A Spaceman Came Travelling – Chris de Burgh, Love Shine A Light – Katrina & the Waves, To Earth With Love – Gay Dad, Paranoid Android – Radiohead, Karma Chameleon – Culture Club, Fly Up To The Moon – Colin Vearncombe & Ladyblack (from the album live at the bassline johannesburg) and The Master Race – Steve Wallis
Also inspired by the following science fiction novels/films/radio programmes/TV programmes: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams, Doctor Who (TV series), Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov, Foundations Edge – Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth – Isaac Asimov and Star Trek Insurrection (film)
Written by Steve Wallis, 2/7/2007
Dedicated to myself, Priya Reddy (warcry) of War Cry Cinema, Martine McCutcheon, Debbie Peters (my first girlfriend), Rhiannon Williams (the first serious love of my life), Kate Bush, Cath Bann, Nathalie Monier, Paula Mitchell, Hira, Jonika, Joanne Simpson, Amy Maybe, Alana Murray, Princess Diana, Ricky Gervais and David Beckham
Dedicated against Derren Brown (mind control expert, who could be compared with The Master in Doctor Who or The Mule in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series)
A spacebaby came travelling on a ship from afar
Across light years in space in the blink of an eye
He thought of many messages that mankind should hear
Wormholes exist
– Einstein was right!
CHORUS:
He let love shine a light
Across every border in the world
He hated every evil being incapable of love
But liked them enough not to bump them off
A supernatural fairytale that’s true
He came to the Earth with love!
Is he Marvin the paranoid android?
Does he have schizophrenia or a brain the size of a planet?
Is the world a big experiment?
Is Derren Brown a Vogon?
CHORUS
The spacebaby has been called Doctor Who!
Did he come to the Earth in the Tardis?
Did he come with a beautiful assistant called Priya?
Prya is the Hindu word for love
He came to the Earth with love
CHORUS
Was Asimov correct when he predicted a galactic revolution?
Would the new empire be capitalist but ethical?
Did he meet Bliss on the Earth?
And did Bliss call herself Rhiannon?
CHORUS
Can a robot really lead a revolution?
Did Data lead the Star Trek insurrection?
Is a telepathic humaniform robot called Daneel controlling the galaxy behind the scenes?
And was the spacebaby who decided the future of humanity called Golan Trevize?
CHORUS
Another spacebaby came travelling on a ship from afar
Maybe his name is George and is related to Kate Bush
He can’t be a Time Lord in case the next baby he kills is his mother
I think he is called Derren but Asimov called him the Mule
He let hate shine a light
Across every border in the world
He hated every good being capable of love
And hated them enough to hypnotise them or bump them off
A supernatural fairytale that’s true
He came to the Earth with hate!
There were many other spacebabies who came to stop the Mule becoming Master of the Universe
Perhaps including Cath, Nathalie, Paula, Amy, Hira, Jonika, Joanne, Alana, Princess Diana, Ricky Gervais and David Beckham
The Mule arranged the assassinations of Nathalie Monier, Princess Diana and Alana Murray
He kept locking the Doctor up pretending he was mad
Priya lives in New York so the institution she is in there is much worse than those in the UK
So bad actually that Priya compared it to the Auschwitz concentration camp
The angels have a mission
We are not human and have souls
We are beings of conviction
And we’re immune to mind control
In Foundation’s Edge, Golan and a friend were searching for the Earth
The friend was a dirty old man, he should have taken Arkady along instead
They found a world inhabited by telepathic aliens called Gaia
A beautiful alien called Bliss (for short) left Gaia to help them find Earth
Gaia was a living planet, in which even inanimate objects were alive!
Golan decided that the galaxy should be like Gaia, to protect itself from hostile aliens in other galaxies
This new galaxy became known as Galaxia
The Doctor recorded some of his musical poetry onto CDs
He had previously thought that tracks play badly to indicate bad lyrics
But several of his tracks played badly too
That happened several times, with different tracks he knew not to be flawed
This prompted him to play something else, better for the future of the world
He realised that the CD player could read his mind!
Does this mean that Earth is Gaia?
Does this mean that revolution on the Earth would lead to Galaxia?
Are you fed up of all the troubles of today?
Are you sick of it down here?
Shall we fly up to the stars?
We must wait until after the revolution
When good has triumphed over bad
When earth has become a utopia
Those who still want a return to big business control of the planet and will be converted no matter what are utterly evil, like the Master (Derren Brown)!
I sometimes suggested that Martine McCutcheon was evil or a robot.
She is not, she is an angel!
All women will be good when the struggle ends!
Let’s leave the evil men behind
And remove all technology from the Earth
Marooning the evil men here
They will return to hunter-gatherer societies
Marxists call this “primitive communism”
We will even remove matches and cigarette lighters so they will have to rub sticks together to make fire.
And since there will be no women left on the Earth, they won’t be able to have children.
Some might choose to commit suicide like the Master did by refusing to regenerate after being shot in Doctor Who (who planned to keep him trapped in the Tardis being the only safe place in the universe, a bit similar to the Nazi Rudolph Hess being kept alone in Spandau prison, without letting him find out anything about the changing world around him, until he finally died).
But if they want to continue to live a humdrum existence until they die naturally, then they can.
When the last evil human dies, we will be rid of those scum forever!
They wanted a master race
Nazis are a waste of space
Imprison them in a horrible place
When they are all dead, Nazis will no longer be part of the human race
Perhaps the poem is so powerful that putting the lyrics on the web will cause an ethical capitalist revolution or ethical socialist revolution (either of which requires elections to take place without use of computers using proportional representation by single transferable vote) to take place before I get round to recording a version of it. When I do, or when the band does if we get together sooner, you will be able to download it from this web page free of charge.