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The breath of the morning I keep forgetting.   The smell of the warm summer air.   I live in a town  where you can't smell a thing,   you watch your feet  for cracks in the pavement.    Up above aliens hover making home movies for the folks back home,   of all these weird creatures  who lock up their spirits,   drill holes in themselves  and live for their secrets.    They're all uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight,  uptight, uptight.   I wish that they'd sweep down in a country lane, late at night when I'm driving.   Take me on board their beautiful ship,   show me the world as I'd love to see it.   I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me, They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely.   I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life.   They'd shut me away. But I'd be alright, alright, I'd be alright, I'm alright.   I'm just uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight

Originally called "Uptight," which is how Jonny referred to it in its early staged, the song pays homage to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." It deals with alien abduction and stems from two incidents in Thom's life. The first occured at Abingdon School, when he was assigned an essay question that went something like this: "If you were an alien from another planet arriving on Earth, how would you describe what you saw?" The second incident occurred when Thom was driving down a country road and hit a bird (which he believes was a pheasant). He stepped out of the car and at that moment began thinking about alien abduction. [taken from greenplastic.com]