Ancient Aliens

Ancient Aliens is the eighth track on Spirit Phone.

Eighth Wonder
Song
Artist	Lemon Demon
Written by	Neil Cicierega
Appears on	Spirit Phone
Sung by	Neil Cicierega
Duration	4:17
Genre	Rock, Pop
Language	English
Links:	Video

Description

Ancient Aliens is a song about a caveman being visited by aliens and having some primal reaction to them. It marks the beginning of the second half of the album, which takes an oddly economic point of view, rather than the spooky first half. This song bridges the gap between the two halves.

Neil spoke of its story on the album's commentary track:

"So, this song is from the point of view of a caveman who’s meeting an alien and he just knows that it’s wrong and he can’t deal with it…? And I guess the alien is stranded or in need of help in some way and the caveman just refuses to help because he gets a primal reaction from meeting someone not of the Earth. Of course in reality cave-people were probably freaked out all the time by totally natural things too."

Lyrics

My mind's this cave
So dark,
No moon,
No stars,
No sound,
Just hearts
And walls
Of art
(ooh)

Strange things happen
For no reason
That's all I know

My mind's this cave
So dark,
No moon,
No stars, no stars,
No sound,
Just hearts
And walls
Of art

These creatures I've seen
Some of them edible some of them mean
That's all I know!

I'm not like you
You fly
You burn my eyes
My eyes, you speak
In my mind
Your kind
All died when you arrived

I saw you
Make-ing fire
Strange things hap-pen
For no reason
(aahh!)
(oh oh oh oh)

I can't help you
You're not human
You're not animal

My mind's this cave
So dark,
No moon,
No stars, no stars,
No sound,
Just hearts
And walls
Of art

And you
You fly
You burn
My eyes
You speak
In my mind
You seem
Surprised that I don't hear you

Music Video

Lemon Demon - "Ancient Aliens"
Music Video
Creator	Neil Cicierega
Cast	N/A
Crew	Neil Cicierega
Released	October 30, 2012
Duration	03:53

The music video uses a demo version of this song!

Alternate Versions

• Ancient Aliens 2012 Demo

Trivia

• This song is one of many Lemon Demon songs to feature parts in 6/4 time. A later song on this album, Reaganomics, is almost entirely in this time signature.