Calling Occupants (Of Interplanetary Craft)

Album: Klaatu (3:47 EST) (1976)
Charted: 62
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  • In your mind you have capacities you know
    To telepath messages through the vast unknown
    Please close your eyes and concertrate
    With every thought you think
    Upon the reciation we're about to sing

    Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
    Calling occupants of interplanetary most extraordinary craft

    (*)Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
    Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
    Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft

    You've been observing our earth
    And we'd like to make a contact with you

    We are your friends

    Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
    Calling occupants of interplanetary ultra-emissaries

    We've been observing your earth
    And one night we'll make a contact with you

    We are your friends

    Calling occupants of interplanetary quite extraordinary craft

    And please come in peace, we beseech you
    Only a landing will teach them
    Our earth may never survive
    So do come, we beg you
    Please interstellar policeman
    Oh won't you give us a sign
    Give us a sign that we've reached you

    With your mind you have ability to form
    And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm
    You close your eyes, you concentrate
    Together that's the way
    To send the message
    We declare world contact day

    Repeat (*)

    Calling occupants
    Calling occupants
    Calling occupants of interplanetary, anti-adversary craft

    We are your friends Writer/s: JOHN WOLOSCHUK, TERRY DRAPER
    Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Anonymouswe've been observing your Earth....from Richard Burton's War of the Worlds?
  • William from Reno, NvI was familiar with the Carpenters version entirely until now. I even went to the Carpenters here to find it but it's not on the list.

    Every time I hear this I think about how this was made in the first place. It must have been some good stuff.

    I could see a get-together like the story line at Burning Man!

    K/H D
  • Walter from Ludlow, MaI had both bands versions of this song on 45 at one time, long ago :-)
  • Steve from Philadelphia, PaI really like this song, though I'm embarassed to admit I purchased this album amid rumours it was a Beatles re-union project.
  • Mark from London, EnglandThe Carpenters charted with this in 1978. It is the longest title for a UK Chart hit - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day).
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