Round The Universe

Did I step down from a spaceship
that was orbiting your earth ?
Shining like a star above
you way down in the dirt
Won't you take me to your leader,
Won't you show me round the sights ?
I don't think I've landed here before
but then again I might

Because your face looks so familiar
But your eyes have lost their shine

I can take you round the universe
in a hot wired police car
We can ram raid Mars and Jupiter
And drive right through a star
There's one thing you can do for me
hear me now my friend
Tell me, tell me, tell me why,
all good things must come to an end ?

Did I crash land in your conscience ?
Did I rain on your parade ?
Am I your alien abduction nightmare ?
Won't you be my slave ?

Is there anybody in there ?
Hey there earthling get the phone
Your virtual reality's a house it's not a home

Well a truth as strange as fiction is
right there in your eyes

I can take you round the universe
in a hot wired police car
We can ram raid Mars and Jupiter
And drive right through a star
There's one thing you can do for me
hear me now my friend
Tell me, tell me, tell me why,
all good things must come to an end ?

Lyrics by:
Squire

Available on:
Do It Yourself (3.45)

Details:
The intro of Round The Universe mimics 'Helter Skelter', by The Beatles.

Helter Skelter is from The Beatles' White Album, from which Brown has also taken inspiration (see My Star).

The lyric "Because your face looks so familiar, but your eyes have lost their shine" is close to a comment Squire would make about Brown several years later in a Guardian newspaper interview with Dave Simpson (6th September 2002):

"I realised that the person inside Ian wasn't the person I loved. I couldn't find him. I looked into his eyes and he was a different person. It was a frightening experience."

The verses are overloaded with sarcastic retorts to Ian's protestations about 'not knowing where the kid (Squire) was coming from.' "Did I step down from a spaceship" ... "Am I your alien abduction nightmare ? Won't you be my slave ?". The last of these lines may be in response to comments Brown made that Second Coming was 'Squire's album' - that they had no choice but to let him dictate the band's affairs. Ian often points to John's excessiveness in the Second Coming years as one of the principal reasons for the group's downfall, but his own lethargy in this period contributed just as much. Had John not taken the initiative, the Roses' hiatus would have reached Stereo MC's proportions.

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