100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #89: Genesis, Keep It Dark

A neat twist on the abducted-by-aliens trope, and one of the stronger tracks from 1981’s Abacab.  A fellow is taken away and shown a utopia of, “A world full of people/Their hearts full of joy/Cities of light/With no fear of war/And thousands of creatures/With happier lives.”  The obvious problem is that when the aliens return him to Earth, he daren’t tell anyone in case people think he’s nuts, so instead he comes up with a story about having been kidnapped by thieves and then let go.  This kind of “Oh my God, what will people think of me?!” is an issue fiction writers often have to deal with.

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