Just Visiting
Composer(s): Lynsey De Paul
Performer(s): Lynsey De Paul



When we first began 
And man received his present name 
We were worshipping the sun and moon 
And hoping it would rain 
Thinking we were puppets 
of some universal power 
We expected his arrival any hour 

Suddenly it came 
A chariot across the sky 
Roaring like an angry tiger 
Giving us a great surprise 
And what was surely God indeed 
Stepped out a burning plane 
Proceeding to explain 

I'm not your maker 
An angel or a saint divine 
Not your Creator 
Giving you a holy sign 
I am a spaceman 
And I'm just visting the earth 
You are an apeman 
And I've been visiting you 
Ever since your birth 

Man was but a child 
And little did he understand 
And he couldn't write this story down 
So his children heard it second hand 
And what was pure and simple 
Now a miracle became 
The spaceman was its name 

I'm not your maker 
An angel or a saint divine 
Not your Creator 
Giving you a holy sign 
I am a spaceman 
And I'm just visting the earth 
You are an apeman 
And I've been visiting you 
Ever since your birth 

And now we've joined the race 
Travellers in outer-space 
Very soon we too might have to say 

I'm not your maker 
An angel or a saint divine 
Not your Creator 
Giving you a holy sign 
I am a spaceman 
And I'm just visting your earth 
You are an apeman 
And I've been visiting you 
Ever since your birth...