Ultra-Powerful Short Wave Radio Picks Up Music From Venus - Yo La Tengo

He loved to listen to sports from Spain

Newscasts from Nebraska

Mariachi music from Mexico

And weather reports from Alaska

He heard talk shows in Texas and Tennessee

And a ballgame in Baltimore

But one night he listened to something strange

That he’d never heard before

He turned the volume all the way up

Until it hissed and it crackled and popped

A few minutes later he turned it off

And his ears rang after it stopped

He scratched his head and rubbed his eyes

Then a grin spread across his face

Somehow he figured that what he had heard

Was coming from outer space

The song was sincere and simple

But it lacked any wit or charm

It sounded a lot like a cross between

A drill and a burglar alarm

It might have been music from Venus

That he listened to that night

But I think it was probably the static you hear

When your radio’s not tuned in right