Norvax (Get Me Offa This Planet)

I was sitting on my sofa just staring at my shoes

When I heard it on the radio the devastating news

Now the parents are all weeping and the vigil’s televised

As they tell you every freedom has a price

We’ve got infomercial salesmen being worshipped and adored

While the scientists and journalists are hated or ignored

And the richest men alive pretend they’ve never had free lunch

Well a man like me can only take so much

GET ME OFFA THIS PLANET

GET ME OUTTA THIS PLACE

THE END IS NEAR I HATE IT HERE

AND I NEED A LITTLE SPACE

A UFO showed up that night a little after three,

It landed in our swimming pool and woke up Mom and me.

I heard the bearings squealing as it made a clanging cough,

And they turned the high beams on and engine off.

I stepped into my slippers, I grabbed my army light,

I barreled down the hallway out the door into the night.

I’m never one for waiting I faced ‘em then and there.

And I shouted in my shoes and underwear.)

GET ME OFFA THIS PLANET

GET ME OUTTA THIS PLACE

THE END IS NEAR I HATE IT HERE

AND I NEED A LITTLE SPACE

Their captain’s name was Norvax and he blinked eyes real bright

And he said, “We want your planet so we’re taking it tonight.

Your mountains are majestic your oceans are so blue,

I’m sorry that we’re taking it from you

I’s sure I was mistaken but I wasn’t quite sure how

Did he miss the words I sang to him a couple times just now?

He paused and then he asked me as his gills let out a hiss:

Is there anything to know we might have missed?

I said, “Hello there, fella! Our problem’s rather strange

Half the earth is mad as hell oh but which half seems to change

See we’re smoking up the airways and we’re chopping down the trees

We’re poisoning the waters and we’re killing all the bees

We've gotten mighty selfish Cause we've built a civilization

Where we praise and worship money And we loathe an education

See we walk around all noble like we truly value life

But we treat our bankers better than our daughters and our wives

Yeah and on a daily basis We will clearly demonstrate

That we’re fine when others suffer If you pay us while we wait

If you search the human body I can’t tell you where the brain went

We stopped looking for the truth now we just want entertainment

And perhaps we’re making progress though we’re moving kinda slow

We only started trying like a thousand years ago.“

Then Norvax pulled a set of keys

From somewhere in his coat

And he sighed a heavy sigh and

He pulled me in real close.

Then we sprinted to the airlock

With his crew in tow behind,

And we blasted off to space as we cried:

GET ME OFFA THIS PLANET

GET ME OUTTA THIS PLACE

THE END IS NEAR I HATE IT HERE

AND I NEED A LITTLE SPACE

GET ME OFFA THIS PLANET

GET ME OUTTA THIS PLACE

YEAH THE END IS NEAR AND I HATE IT HERE

AND WE HEADED OFF TO SPACE