[00:00.000] 作曲 : Wayne
[00:00.000] 作词 : Wayne
[00:00.0]No one would have believed,
[00:01.93]in the last years of the nineteenth century,
[00:04.53]that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.
[00:09.27]No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
[00:18.0]Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets.
[00:22.18]And yet, across the gulf of space,
[00:25.53]minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes,
[00:32.24]and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us...
[04:52.29]At midnight, on the 12th of August,
[04:54.30]a huge mass of luminous green gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth.
[04:59.25]Across two hundred million miles of void,
[05:02.24]invisibly hurtling towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth.
[05:08.93]As I watched, there was another jet of gas.
[05:11.83]It was another missile, starting on its way...
[05:46.35]And that's how it was for the next ten nights.
[05:49.73]A flare, spurting out from Mars.
[05:52.15]Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it; a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight.
[05:59.71]Ogilvy, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger.
[06:03.93]He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote, forbidding planet...
[06:11.62]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said
[06:20.94]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...
[06:27.42]But still, they come!
[06:31.58]Then came the night the first missile approached Earth.
[06:34.13]It was thought to be an ordinary falling star,
[06:36.75]but the next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common,
[06:39.95]and Ogilvy came to examine what lay there.
[06:42.84]A cylinder, thirty yards across, glowing hot, and with faint sounds of movement coming from within.
[06:50.82]Suddenly the top began moving, rotating, unscrewing, and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape.
[06:59.62]He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal...
[07:05.40]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said
[07:14.59]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...
[07:20.99]But still, they come!
[07:25.64]Yes, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said
[07:35.54]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...
[07:42.1]But still, they come!
[08:33.65]It seems totally incredible to me now that everyone spent that evening as though it were just like any other.
[08:47.53]From the railway station came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance.
[09:01.39]It all seemed so safe and tranquil...