Black Triangle - Richard Dawson

Me and Neil saw a UFO when we were in our early twenties

It appeared from the South, flew right over my parents' house

We’d been for an Oriental buffet

All we had had to drink was Dr. Pepper

Neil was dropping me off

We were just saying our farewells

Suddenly he yelled, «What's that?»

Then dusk fell quiet

As the dark shape glided

Off beyond the lamps of Aldi car park

A black triangle, I swear upon my soul

Red circle on the craft, base glowing like a coal

A floating prism, as real as it gets

Eerie silence, it’s the silence I cannot forget

Ever since that fateful evening

I’ve been an avid UFO enthusiast

I’ve got a website and a YouTube channel

Documenting sightings

All over the country

Neil went on to become an engineer

First at Nissan, then Jaguar Land Rover

He’s happily married with a couple of kids

And living in a beautiful barn conversion

My own marriage broke down

After my wife found

Someone else to love her

Better than I

She met him at her Pilates class

A good guy called Rob

A broker and a recent widower

Thank God our daughter

Was too young to understand

Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh

Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh-ahh

Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh

Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh-ahh

I’ve got Beth for the weekend

We’re camping in the lakes

Charred marshmallows under the arm of the Milky Way

Into the woods comes a messenger

Materializing from the smoke of fires old

A flying door opening elsewhere

A black triangle disappearing into thin air