The Sweet Electric - "Silver Capes" (Liam Lynch)
Song and Video by Liam Lynch. This song is available on most music platforms on the album "Liam Lynch presents The Sweet Electric - The Mars Sessions". Lyrics in drop down menu.
The Sweet Electric visit an outpost and reminisce of the time, long ago, when they once hid there while escaping the rare and deadly creatures nicknamed "Silver Capes". No one knows their origins or what they are. The name "Silver Capes" comes from survivors accounts of a long curtain-like silvery membrane that lowers from their mouths when eating their prey. Few have seen them and lived to tell the tale.
Lyrics:
I can’t stop remembering that day we saw the Silver Capes
We stood there frozen, shaking, eyes wide and our mouths agape
It was like yesterday
We’re lucky that we got away.
How come trouble always seems to find us
We’re just tryin to mind our own business
Stopped dead in our tracks
When we first saw them
Mission Control, we’ve got a problem
If I knew what they came for
I wouldn’t stay another second more
If I knew where they came from
I’d stay away from that place til' my days were done
We never saw their face
And man I’m glad we didn’t wait
We turned around and we ran all the way to Seventh Gate
We saw the Silver Capes
We saw the Silver Capes
We saw with our own eyes the way they moved and changed their shape
How come trouble always seems to find us
We’re just tryin to mind our own business
Stopped dead in our tracks
When we first saw them
Mission Control, we’ve got a problem
If I knew what they came for
I wouldn’t stay another second more
If I knew where they came from
I’d stay away from that place til my days were done
Hide. Don’t look them in the eyes.
Or go delirious
Run. Til you can’t hear their cries
This is serious
Hide. Don’t look them in the eyes.
Or go delirious
Run. Til you can’t hear their cries
This is serious
We saw the Silver Capes
We saw the Silver Capes
We saw the Silver Capes
We saw the Silver Capes