The Eve of the War (Ben Liebrand Remix Radio Edit)-Jeff Wayne/Richard Burton

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:27.90]No one would have believed [00:29.10]In the last years of the nineteenth century [00:31.14] [00:31.74]That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space [00:35.01] [00:36.42]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 [00:43.20] [00:44.82]Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets [00:47.55] [00:48.66]And yet across the gulf of space [00:50.97] [00:51.54]Minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes [00:56.70] [00:58.32]And slowly and surely they drew their plans against us [01:02.70]At midnight on the 12th of August [01:03.30] [01:21.03]A huge mass of luminous green gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth [01:44.01]Across two hundred million miles of void [01:44.94]Invisibly hurtling towards us came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth [01:46.92] [01:51.54]As I watched there was another jet of gas [01:52.38]It was another missile starting on its way [01:53.25] [02:12.09]And that's how it was for the next ten nights [02:13.23]A flare spurting out from Mars [02:13.92]Bright green drawing a green mist behind it a beautiful but somehow disturbing sight [02:23.13]Ogilvy the astronomer assured me we were in no danger [02:24.09] [02:24.63]He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote forbidding planet [02:26.31]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said [02:27.75] [02:34.62]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one [02:35.97]But still they come [02:36.39]Then came the night the first missile approached Earth [02:45.57]It was thought to be an ordinary falling star [02:46.92]But the next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common [02:54.12]And Ogilvy came to examine what lay there [02:54.87] [03:00.90]A cylinder thirty yards across glowing hot and with faint sounds of movement coming from within [03:02.94] [03:03.45]Suddenly the top began moving rotating unscrewing and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape [03:06.72]He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal [03:09.63]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said [03:12.21]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one [03:13.86]But still they come [03:14.43]Yes the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said [03:16.65] [03:18.45]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one [03:22.32]But still they come [03:22.68] [03:26.58]It seems totally incredible to me now that everyone spent that evening as though it were just like any other [03:28.74] [03:43.08]From the railway station came the sound of shunting trains ringing and rumbling softened almost into melody by the distance [03:45.84] [03:48.12]It all seemed so safe and tranquil