Captain in the Sky

 Bursts of light pierce the night
Strange crafts fill up the sky

Laser beams, jet streams
Frightening sounds like 4th of July

Another fight for independence
But this time for galactic ascendence
Will humankind prevail?

A battleship canon rips 
Raining fire through the ozone layer 

A young child is running wild
With no family left anywhere

Two soldiers are standing off, one’s lighting a molotov
The other cocking a plasma gun
They link eyes and catch a glimmer of something familiar
Like staring into a strange mirror

Deep down 
In secret
They both think,
Wait! Brother please!
Is it too late for peace?

See the travelers had flown light years
Until they came across this big blue home

Living seas, brilliant trees, 
Reminded them kinda of their own

They’d drained their mother planet
So dry they could no longer stand it
This new one would do just fine

Too bad it’s occupants held defense
But they can’t hold all night

An invader commander 
Is zapping everyone in sight 
Above the battlefield standing high, in a laser tank in the sky
He shows no mercy
A mother running with her kids dodges his shot and slips
Finds herself staring down his scope

From deep down
In desperation 
She screams,
Wait! Mister please!
Is it too late for peace?

The captain in the sky looks on
Conducting the war through an intercom
His uneasiness grows with every order he gives
To drop more troops or another bomb
He peers down from his mothership,
Watching his tanks vaporize little kids
He used to day dream about exploring the stars
When he left Earth it was not for this

Deep down
Through the atmosphere
He cries,
Wait! Soldiers freeze!
It’s not too late for peace
That’s an order
Wait! Gunfire cease!
It’s not too late for peace

I offered to write my brother Nathan a song. He asked for an upbeat, folky, acoustic tune about a human vs alien space battle with vignettes of different fight scenes and a twist ending.