2025 Competition Entry:

Interplanetary Rock by GerriMango

Genre

Rock

Artist

Website

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Gerri McManus voice and uke

Description

It was inspired by the US congress hearings about UAPs and other extraordinary reports and events on the same topic .
I really enjoyed playing with the words and when I am writing songs I tend to find the top line melody from prosody and then finding the the chords and rhythm from that to find songs that are strong and catchy with hooks rather than very complex or technically sophisticated musically. But aiming to build more contrast between verse and chorus etc.

Bio

Has a background in psychology, marketing and corporate change management. Plays flute, ukulele, Loves singing and playing music in all forms and genres with others.

Lyrics

Intro
for fun I am aiming to produce it with
I can do overtone chanting to start
Electro random beeps ( like Shove Piggy Shove by LFO,
Cathedral organ introduction (similar drama to ‘Pop Music’ song by M…)

[Chorus]
F C
I think I’ve fallen for an alien!
Dm Bb
I wonder if he’s a Pleiadian?
F C
Sees right into my soul
Dm Bb
Interplanetary rock and roll !

[Verse 1]
F C
Heart is bigger than a huge gas giant
Dm Bb
When all the rest feel like they’re made of granite
F C
Don’t want to fall into his gravity
Dm Bb
Abducted to a false reality

[middle eight 1 ( Robotic lower octave Eighties synth pop/Electronic Dance Music style ]
Dm E
Distance vision with laser beam eyes
F. Dm
Feels like he can read my mind
Dm E
My heart expanded, and then it was broken
F A
Told me of his cosmic home

[Verse 2 ]
F C
I don’t want to jeopardise his mission
Dm Bb
Only came to check our nuclear fission!
F C
We have to meet on another dimension
Dm Bb
Reinventing all the Geneva convention

[Middle eight 2] Robotic lower octave Eighties synth pop/Electronic Dance Music style ] ]
Dm E
Falling ever into infinite space
F Dm
Surrender to a shapeshifting face
Dm E
Entangled for an eternity
F A
Together non-locally

[Verse 3 ]
F C
His heart is bigger than the shining sun
Dm Bb
Get close, gonna burn
Dm C
Or get caught in an elliptical orbit
F C
Exiled to a hostile exoplanet


[verse 4 ]
F c
He’s not like anyone else on earth
Dm Bb
He’s got a very different way life
F C
But not quite Zeta Reticuli
F Bb
(Little grey man or Reptilian)

[Chorus reprise]
F C
I think I’ve fallen for an alien!
Dm Bb
I’m not sure if he’s a Pleiadian?
F C
Sees right into my soul
Dm Bb
Interplanetary rock and roll

[ last verse ]
F C
We all get the same neutrinos
Dm Bb
In thai great cosmic cassino
F C
We’re not at a Comicon festival
Dm Bb
He’s must be Extra Terrestrial !

[Chorus reprise]
F C
I think I’ve fallen for an alien!
Dm Bb
I’m not sure if he’s a Pleiadian?
F C
Sees right into my soul
Dm Bb
Interplanetary rock and roll

(Outro – OOhs
and possibly theremin;-)

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