Verse 1 They came down wrapped in silver light No sound when they touched the ground Hands extended, voices warm Said they’d turn our world around Cures for pain, gifts of fire Maps that traced the cosmic sea We raised our glasses to the sky Never asked what they might see Pre-Chorus Every answer felt too clean Every promise softly sealed While we stared at shining wonders Something darker stayed concealed Chorus They’re smiling in the starlight Speaking peace into our ears Trading truth for blind devotion Feeding hope, dissolving fears But beneath their perfect language Past the glow we can’t outrun They’re counting every heartbeat Waiting for the war they’ve won Verse 2 Cities hum with borrowed power Satellites in guided lines We depend on foreign hands For tomorrow’s grand designs Children dream of distant worlds Teachers praise our guests above We don’t see the quiet patterns In the data that we love Pre-Chorus In the shadows, signals flow In the silence, systems bend Every network softly bending To a master we call friend Chorus They’re smiling in the starlight Speaking peace into our ears Trading truth for blind devotion Feeding hope, dissolving fears While we celebrate salvation While we thank them one by one They’re rewriting every border Waiting for the war they’ve won Bridge Cold eyes behind human skin Counting down beneath the calm Learning how we fight and fail Mapping out our final psalm When the sky no longer hides And the masks fall to the floor We’ll remember how we cheered As we opened every door Final Chorus They were smiling in the starlight Now the silence feels too loud All their gifts become our shackles All our faith becomes a shroud We were dazzled by their kindness We were blinded by the sun Now we hear the engines rising — And we know what we’ve become Outro They came as friends from distant night With open hands and eyes so bright We never saw the truth above — Conquest dressed in borrowed love
