Colour Out of the Space Lyrics

They were twitching morbidly and spasmodically
Clawing in convulsive and epileptic madness
At the moonlit clouds
Then a cloud of darker depth passed over the moon
And the silhouette of clutching branches faded out
Momentarily

A spectral half-moon played wanly on the grey
This strange beam of ghastly miasma
Strange colours danced before his eyes
He had seen that colour before

Nothin'... nothin'... the colour... it burns
Cold an' wet, but it burns
I seen it... a kind of smoke
Jest like the flowers last spring
The well shone at night
The colour out of space

The colour out of space, it beats down your mind
Scratching impotently in the noxious air
Subterrene horrors writhing and struggling below
Insidious beam of.....