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title: "Aliens"

meaning: "Heaven as alien convention: everyone's religion was right, they might be sexy, you might be the alien: and if dogs go, why can't Alf?"

year: 2023
release: "MÖB"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/aliens/1708670332?i=1708670338"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/7kAZdCuQ89YJHbJQI0xeOB"

themes: ["heaven", "religion", "absurdism", "MÖB", "humor"]

isrc: QZTB22361895
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  What if when you go to heaven
  There's like lots of aliens
  And like they're all talking
  About like how their religion was right
  And those aliens are like
  Kinda sexy wait might
  I be an alien to them?

  If we all go to heaven
  What then yeah, what then
  Oh oh, yeah, what then?
  If dogs go to heaven
  Then why can't Alf?

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Track five on [*MÖB*](/albums/mob/), a theology bit under two minutes, spoken-sung like a shower thought that won't leave. What if heaven is full of aliens all arguing their religion was the correct one, and they're *kinda sexy*, and *wait, might I be an alien to them?* The chorus raises the stakes without settling them (*if we all go to heaven, what then?*) before the [Alf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series)) punchline turns 80s sitcom into eschatology: *if dogs go to heaven, then why can't Alf?*

It sits after [*DMV*](/songs/dmv/) on an album that keeps cycling anxiety, memory, and silly observation. Not a koan with an answer, a question with a joke attached.

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