I’m no scientist, but I reckon truly intelligent, more highly developed life won’t be discovered until the searchers stumble upon beer . Well then: cheers! ----------- [Verse 1] Scientists are scanning through the night, searching distant worlds beyond our sight. Round strange suns their lonely planets fly, tiny specks beneath a cosmic sky. They're looking for oceans, rivers, rain, trying to answer an old refrain. "If water's there", the wise men say, "Perhaps life's not so far away." [Chorus] Raise a glass across the stars tonight, to worlds still hidden from our sight. If water means life, that may be true, but beer would prove intelligence too! [Verse 2] Through giant telescopes they carefully stare, hunting traces in the atmosphere. Every signal makes the headlines run, every spectrum hints at something fun. And who am I to doubt their quest? They're surely doing all their best. But deep inside I can't help cheer for the day they find a cosmic beer. [Chorus] Raise a glass across the stars tonight, to worlds still hidden from our sight. If water means life, that may be true, but beer would prove intelligence too! [Bridge] An alien brewer on a distant shore, would tell us much more than H-2-O. A golden pint beneath twin suns, now that's how first contact should be done! [Final Chorus] Raise a glass across the stars tonight, to worlds still hidden from our sight. Let the scientists keep searching near and far, for oceans underneath another star. And if someday their instruments report, a brewery in some alien port, we'll simply smile and say with cheer: "Now that's intelligent life, my dear!" [Outro] Water means life, that's what they say. Beer means brains, in every way. Raise your glass, across the sky. Find a beer, and we'll know why. So let them keep on searching, friends... A tripple: Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!
