Red Weed, Pt. 2

by Jeff Wayne

Jeffry "Jeff" Wayne, born 1 July 1943 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, is a musician best known for Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical version of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on …

Year: 1981

It's looking good, it's going good
We're getting great pictures
Hhere at NASA Control, Pasadena
The landing craft touched down on Mars
Twenty eight kilometers from the aim point

We're looking at a remarkable landscape
Littered with different kinds of rocks
Red, purple, how 'bout that, Bermuda?

Fantastic, look at the dune field

Hey, wait. I'm getting a no go signal
Now I'm losing on of the craft
Hey, Bermuda, you getting it?

No, I lost contact
There's a lot of dust blowing up there
Now I've lost the second craft
We got problems
All contact lost, Pasadena
Maybe the antenna's

What's that flare? A green flare, coming from Mars
Kind of a green mist behind it
It's getting closer, you see it, Bermuda?
Come in, Bermuda, Houston, come in, what's going on?

Tracking station 43, Canberra, come in, Canberra
Tracking station 63, can you hear me, Madrid?
Can anybody hear me? Come in, come in