Our colony fleet has exhausted our metals			Am  F   Am   E
We can try to escape our doomed world but just once		Am  F   Am   E
So the question is now: where in space can we send her? 	Am  F   C   Am
So with men of all nations we've set out to hunt		Am  Em  E   Am

	We fly blind and desperate, earth's last exploration		F  Am
	And earth's only fleet waits for our signal call		F  Am  E
	Green - come rejoicing, Gold – come with caution		F  Am
	And Red - do not follow, don't follow at all			Am  E  Am
	But to signal across all that terrible distance			F  Am
	Carries an equally terrible price				F  Am  E
	Choose wisely, O Captain, what signal to send them		F  Am
	Choose wisely, O Captain, for we can't signal twice		Am  E  Am

We found a new planet, with sweet air and water			Am  F   Am   E
Plants we can eat and these quaint coloured lights		Am  F   Am   E
Quarantine surely is just a formality				Am  F   C   Am
But the captain won't signal - says something's not right	Am  Em  E   Am

But our crew carries spies who have hidden agendas		Am  F   Am   E
Government orders and loyalties torn				Am  F   Am   E
A mutinous band sends the green signal early			Am  F   C   Am
Now it's all gone wrong and we're too late to warn		Am  Em  E   Am

	chorus

For the planet's queer lights were the aliens' vector		Am  F   Am   E
To infect us, implant us with their spectral brood		Am  F   Am   E
The crew one by one lose their wits, then their bodies		Am  F   C   Am
It seems I'll be last - I'm in no cheerful mood			Am  Em  E   Am
	
Now the captain has found me, his mind almost shattered 	Am  F   Am   E
To utter his last before he too is dead				Am  F   Am   E
As he grips me a ghostly glow oozes around him			Am  F   C   Am
"The signal we sent, O it should have been red.			Am  Em  E   Am
Yes, the signal it should have been red."  			Am  E  Am

	chorus

	And the fleet now will follow...  but we can't signal twice.   Am  E  Am