Soul Coughing - Unmarked Helicopters Lyrics






Whose song is that remembered?
At random, serpentine
Through fatty coils, emerging
Some other thought it's thinking
This light
Stands above the
Houses
On the ground
This illumination
Visited upon the whole land

Unmarked helicopters
Hovering
The Lord is coming soon

Here comes the super copter
Here comes the noise it makes
The demon was an idea
The demon is awake
Scratch mark traced across the
Surface of your mind
This hour, now upon us
The hour, now arrived

Unmarked helicopters
Hovering
The Lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters
Hovering
They said it was a weather balloon

But I know the truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang
I let her out the trunk
Heard what she said at them
They've come to drag us through the double M

It goes black black black black and blacker
It goes black black black black and blacker
It goes black black black black and blacker
It goes black black black black and blacker

Unmarked helicopters
Hovering
The lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters
Hovering
They said it was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon
It was a weather balloon





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  1. H.... ....

    You could always aim your M4 Carbine at the tail rotor and squeeze the trigger.... Then you can ask them what the fuck they are up to....

  2. C.... F....

    This is the best deep slacker jazz.

  3. s.... ....

    One of the better movie soundtracks back when movie soundtracks were a big deal during the 90's.

  4. J.... S....

    Duck Tape

  5. T.... T....

    this may be one of the most 1990s things imaginable. perhaps peak 1990s.

  6. M.... D....

    who else wants to blast this at the area 51 raid?

  7. T.... C....

    The lord is coming soon. John 3:16

  8. R.... A....

    I didn't anticipate the speed and precision of their clean-up operation. They're systematically destroying all the evidence... http://www.insidethex.co.uk/transcrp/scrp123.htm

  9. M.... W....

    One of the coolest songs ever. Up there with Manfred Mann Earth Band.

  10. M.... A....

    An unmarked helicopter brought me here.

  11. b.... y....

    Max Finig..

  12. T.... S....

    I think this was also included on the first X-Files film soundtrack.

  13. d.... 1....

    Totally here coz it was on Blacklist but i recognised the voice. Ahhh The X Files. I even got to meet David Duchovny at London Comic Con last yr 2018. The X Files paved the way...

  14. b.... y....

    Best episode period.

  15. d.... ....

    The demon was an idea. The demon is awake...

  16. I.... S....

    remember when it was JUST UFO's? sigh.

  17. Y.... O....

    on the original track of which I own, if you reverse (Not Skip) but reverse, two hidden songs exist.

  18. C.... C....

    I have heard the only live recording on YT, i wish there was a proper live of this track , i guess the clingers never made this what it is, Mike Doughty made this!

  19. m.... ....

    Ahhh, the 1990s, and its never-ending (BUT SEEMINGLY PLAUSIBLE) paranoid conspiracies fueled by ridiculous Pentagon denials (what balloon could abruptly change its trajectory 315 degrees at 16 Gs?!!) and growing distrust (The Truth Is Out There - implying that what we're being told are lies) in a federal government that had far overreached its limits, as well as the emergence of a new kind of folk hero - the internet hacker - all conveniently rolled into a single television series for the eager consumption of geeky teenage sci-fi fans. XD Good times the '90s were.

  20. N.... ....

    Awesome! I always liked Soul Coughing but I never knew they did an X-Files song until I saw the episode this was featured in. Both the band and the show just became so much cooler IMO.

  21. F.... ....

    This is actually how I discovered Soul Coughing. I re-watched X-Files, noticed the song, thought it was a Butthole Surfers song I'd never heard and instead discovered one of the coolest bands I've heard in recent years.

    F.... ....

    Felix Quarnström Back in the 90’s, when the current music was actually good, listenable. Bettern’ this crap today what they refer to as ‘ music’

  22. m.... b....

    thanks for sharing :)
    after watchin the x files i looked the song up

  23. K.... S....

    💕 💕 💕 💕Still listening 2018 best album ever!!!!! 🤘

  24. S.... ....

    Salvation.net.au

  25. B.... S....

    Every time a low flying twin engine helicopter flys by my house I imagine this song in my head.

  26. M.... ....

    Whose song is that remembered
    At random serpentine
    Through phatic coils emerging
    Some other thought it's thinking
    This light sounds above the houses on the ground
    This illumination visited upon the whole land

    Unmarked helicopters, hovering
    The lord is coming soon

    Here comes the super-copter
    here comes the noise it makes
    The demon was an idea
    The demon is awake
    The scratch mark left across the surface of your mind
    This hour now upon us
    The hour has now arrived

    Unmarked helicopters, hovering
    The lord is coming soon
    Unmarked helicopters, hovering
    They said it was a weather balloon

    I know truth
    I know the whole shebang
    I know the names of men they had to hang
    I let her out of the trunk
    I heard what she said at them
    They've come to drag her through the double-M

    It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
    It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
    It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
    It goes black, black, black, black, blacker
    Unmarked helicopters, hovering
    The lord is coming soon
    Unmarked helicopters, hovering
    They said it was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon

  27. M.... ....

    Pay attention at the end of the track... May the truth is it there...

  28. u.... ....

    Mulder and Scully brought me here.

  29. S.... �....

    My step-son was in Soul Coughing, and I'm 32.

  30. B.... ....

    Nirvana, X-Files and PSX = 90's as it finnest !!!

  31. N.... N....

    Black Black Black Blacker

  32. a.... ....

    Good song

  33. s.... ....

    My uncle was in Soul Coughing

  34. J.... V....

    Used to listen to this CD in the 90's, amazing

  35. J.... ....

    I found this CD at a value village on Vancouver island years ago and still have it. I'm now living in the Yukon and randomly thought of this song. Gotta love the PNW and gotta love x files.

  36. B.... ....

    This great tech!

  37. M.... ....

    helecoptersah...hoveringah....they said it was a weather balloonah!!!!
    every single 90's rock song lyrics ended in ah!!!

  38. C.... S....

    max fennig!!!!

  39. S.... B....

    i really like x files. but i dont like aliens. are you the same way?

    S.... B....

    Yeah. I'd get really scared when I watched the X-Files back in the '90s, but I couldn't stop watching it. It was the best damn show ever. Only the Sarah Connor Chronicles came somewhat close to how much I liked the X-Files. No other sci-fi show so far this millennium even comes close in my eyes to the X-Files (original series - the only one that matters in my opinion).

  40. M.... B....

    I think it is ironic that I learned how the US and UK funded Saudi
    Arabia to bomb schools in Yemen 6 years ago, and if I say it now I will
    just sound crazy and at best I'll just end up dead. I am pretty screwed
    because I knew about this long before it happened, but I never thought
    it was true, than I learned it really is true now I feel partly
    responsible, so I must speak out, but it is so Ironic that no one will
    really believe and/or care enough to do anything, yet I may wind up dead
    because of it!

  41. M.... B....

    Matt Barrett2 hours agoAfter 30 years on this damn earth, and it turns out this is my theme song... and it really pisses me off, because there is not a damn thing I can do about. If I were to explain my situation in full detail people would only think I'm crazy, and believe me it is extremely ironic. It's way too ironic, in both the sense of the literal definition, and in the poetic sense of getting screwed over for no apparent reason. but it is mostly the literal definition of ironic, my life seems to be one big fractal of irony, that I want to do or say something about it, but if I did it would only hinder me even further. it's like a Chinese finger trap except it does not loosen when I just move my fingers together, it just gets tighter the more I try. My life is nothing but Ironic in the worse way. So I find myself at 30 years of age living with my parents and I cannot get a job. It's like 10,000 knives in my back, because I stand up for what's right. Or being covered in ticks when I already have been bled dry. I don't even like this song very much (not to bash on Alanis Morissette) but she had some way better songs, and it's ironic that this song describes my life better than any other songs, but anyone would say the same thing if it were true about them, and that is also ironic in itself. It is extremely ironic to the point that all the humor is sucked out of it and it is that miserable horrible ironic, the kind of ironic that a bunch of narcissistic megalomaniacs and control freaks bring down my life and elevate their own. it's the kind of ironic that sucks the hope I have for humanity right out of me. it's the kind of ironic where evil triumphs over the few good based on shear numbers It is the kind of ironic that makes me sick to the soul. It's the kind of ironic that these twisted people laugh at their own evil deeds and justify them in being humorous because it is ironic, but they really are nothing but a bunch of soul sucking leeches. It is really IRONIC, not just a little too ironic but way too ironic. The most Ironic part about it all is no one will ever believe me. It is far too ironic!

    M.... B....

    stop ranting.

    M.... B....

    You know what, that is a really good idea, thank you for the advice.

    M.... B....

    you are crazy

  42. M.... B....

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/sep/16/how-saudi-arabias-airstrikes-have-hit-civilian-life-in-yemen

  43. E.... C....

    the truth is still out there i want to believee :(

    E.... C....

    Oh still want to believe.... Check out Steven Greer : )

    E.... C....

    I want to believe so bad 👽

  44. R.... W....

    How do you hear the hidden track Song #0?

    R.... W....

    Randall Waters wait until track 1 starts, then hold rewind

  45. D.... ....

    max brought me here

  46. D.... R....

    I saw Mike the other night and he played this acoustic. It was really neat.

  47. R.... M....

    What is the double M that they dragged her through?

  48. R.... ....

    R.I.P. Agent Pendrell

    R.... ....

    One of the saddest deaths in my opinion besides queequeg (scullys dog) 😭

    R.... ....

    Hana Fujino Mulder finally finding out what happened to Samantha and the "reconciliation" with her spirit(? all those ghost kids) broke me

    R.... ....

    And Max Fenig.

    R.... ....

    R. I. P Max Fenig

    R.... ....

    Hello, Agent Reyes! ;)

  49. R.... C....

    Max was fucking awesome! If I didn't have my family I would totally live just like this guy out of a mobile trailer one with actual wheels, and I would travel the country following the trails of sightings and seeking out the truth.

    R.... C....

    You'd really like Kerry Cassidy- she rocks

    R.... C....

    That's pretty cool

  50. L.... ....

    The chirpy noises the song opens on are actually the theme from X-Files played super fast.

    L.... ....

    +Lultschful random serpantine

    L.... ....

    @MIKE DAVIS​ didn't pull that from my arse, I've slowed it down. You have to really stretch the sound a lot to hear it, it's sped up a hell lot. But, before saying no, why don't you try verifying it yourself? Knowing that it's true for having heard it first hand, I find it rather baffling you allow yourself to be that dismissive without even having checked for yourself. Accessorilly, the sample is heard at normal speed by the end.

    L.... ....

    +Lultschful I just slowed it down myself yesterday, it's a slight remix of the theme

    L.... ....

    slowed down as you said.

    L.... ....

    +Lultschful Just tried it myself. The theme has been sped up to 4x its original speed to achieve the chirps we hear in this song. Additionally it's had some echo and reverb added to it. It actually manages to sound creepier than the original theme with their modifications.

  51. T.... P....

    I know the truth. I know the whole shabang. I know the names of men they had to hang.

    T.... P....

    Of course, Trevor. You know a lot. Except for being a normal human-fucking-being.

  52. E.... H....

    This song makes me think of chemtrails, busting them, and the black helicopters.

  53. E.... N....

    They said it was a weather balloon...

  54. L.... H....

    I decided to re-watch the entire show. Much have not aged well but I still find it eerie and mysterious. X Files will never close down as long as the truth is out there.

    L.... H....

    @Dr Ivo Robotnik Every single thing has aged well because it's art piece.

  55. R.... j....

    1 of my fave cd's !

  56. R.... ....

    Can't wait for the shows return. Baited breath over here. Also, great song.

  57. H.... ....

    Did you know that X-Files is returning to TV after a 13 year hiatus?

    H.... ....

    +HossSchwab ikr? I got hard when i heard the news. I started watching back in the 90's when i was knee high and started re-watching all the episodes when they came out on netflix about a year ago :3

  58. W.... H....

    We've been seeing black helicopters without lights flying around the skies above New Orleans. 

    W.... H....

    Google: Jade Helm & tell everyone you know about it.

    W.... H....

    +Lindsey Moran jade helm=texas... last poster said New Orleans

    W.... H....

    "I've got one that can SEE!"

  59. c.... ....

    I miss the x files

  60. M.... C....

    The truth is still out there!!

  61. N.... J....

    My dad was in soul coughing

    N.... J....

    @Nick Johnson I heard the rest of the band were dicks back then and screwed the lead singer out of all his royalties for writing the songs... was your dad one of them? Like to hear both sides :)

    N.... J....

    @Nick Johnson Improbable, unless you're Niccolo Degliantoni (I think that's his son's name?), born in 1998/1999. None of the other members had kids except Mark, the sampler player.

  62. A.... R....

    Whose song is that remembered?
    At random serpentine
    Throught fatty coils emerging
    There's some artist thinking
    This light stands above
    The thunders on the ground
    This illumination
    Visited upon the whole land
    Unmarked helicopters hovering
    The Lord is coming soon
    Here comes the super copter
    Here comes the noise it makes
    The demon was an idea
    The demon is awake
    Or scratch mark left upon
    The surface of your mind
    This hour, now upon us
    The hour has now arrived
    Unmarked helicopters hovering
    The Lord is coming soon
    Unmarked helicopters hovering
    Though they said it was a weather balloon
    But I know the truth
    And I know the whole she bang
    And I know the names of men they had to hang
    I let her out the trunk
    Heard what she said at them
    They've come to drag us through the double m
    It goes black black black black and blacker
    It goes black black black black and blacker
    It goes black black black black and blacker
    It goes black black black black and blacker
    Unmarked helicopters hovering
    The Lord is coming soon
    Unmarked helicopters hovering
    Though they said it was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon
    It was a weather balloon

  63. S.... W....

    SPOOKYYYYYYYYY SKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN

  64. l.... ....

    I still have the audio cassette!

  65. V.... O....

    Re-watching the boxset and still loving it brought me here...!

  66. M.... P....

    God I miss the X Files... it's time to bring it back. 

    M.... P....

    Hows that working out for you? lol

    M.... P....

    Well, this is certainly a dated comment.

    M.... P....

    they tried
    HOWEVER
    with a
    REAL LIFE

    RUSSIAN ISRAELI SAUDI
    OWNED PUPPET
    TRUMPANAZI
    DICTATORSHIP REGIME
    ILLEGALLY ILLEGITIMATELY
    CONTROLLING AMERICA

    NO ONE CARES ABOUT
    FAKE
    CONSPIRACY THEORIES

    M.... P....

    poststhatdidnotagewell.jpg

  67. W.... B....

    Low flying unmarked black helicopter exercises hovering over and in-between the Twin Cities buildings last week and it even made the infowars headlines. I heard this perfect song request on The Current 89.3  The Lord is coming soon, and I know the Truth. 

  68. C.... B....

    I want to Believe...

  69. N.... ....

    It's night time as I listen to this, and I can hear two Army Blackhawk helicopters buzzing around my city.

    N.... ....

    @iowa girl hurr the demon illuminati nwo lizard aliens, dank memes can't melt steel beams

    N.... ....

    @iowa girl Minnesota. But I was being sarcastic. The National Guard has an aviation brigade that operates out of the Twin Cities, and it's not uncommon to hear them.

  70. J.... S....

    from Jose' "Timo" Sepulveda...........Max Fennig lives...........

  71. J.... S....

    from Jose' "Timo" Sepulveda.......Vesper Lynd.......Max brought me here, too.......AND I'M SO GLAD I CAME!!!!!!!!!!

  72. E.... H....

    Max fenning brought me here!

    E.... H....

    +Vesper Lynd Fenig. Not Fenning.

    E.... H....

    +Justin Sparks lol okay

  73. F.... G....

    I belive

  74. R.... J....

    Definitely a favorite song !!

  75. K.... l....

    Only just heard of this group after writing the lyrics into Google from an X-files episode I watched, lol. Do Soul Coughing do more tracks like these? 

  76. B.... o....

    superb track. thanks for sharing.

  77. W.... D....

    The Truth is out there....

  78. J.... R....

    looking up at the stars in the middle of a new mexico desert listening to 'unMARKED HELIcopters'

    J.... R....

    That's how you do it, man!

  79. B.... B....

    This whole album is awesome

  80. v.... ....

    At a high school dance, we got nagged the DJ to play this song for at least an hour.  He finally did, my friend Andrew and I improvised a dance on the dance floor, and he refused to play any more of our requests.

    v.... ....

    Just so you know, you and your friend Andrew ROCK.

  81. M.... V....

    This song is so catchy.

  82. t.... ....

    yes and also yes. I have way more fun facts. I can link you sources in a PM (cannot post in comment.)

    Yeah, i'm kind of.... obsessed.

  83. C.... ....

    Great info! Do you have a source?

  84. t.... ....

    Doughty said that it was during the recording sessions for this song that the band began to crumble.

    Also, FOX wanted to release this song as a single, thus pushing Irresistible Bliss's release date back over 4 months, because "FOX didn't want to have 2 albums by the same band on the shelves" - FOX never released the single.

  85. M.... ....

    ...well scratch mark left across the surface of your mind.
    Awesome

  86. S.... W....

    Did you ever catch any "Out There Radio" podcasts?

  87. B.... ....

    "The Demon was an idea
    The Demon is awake"

  88. M.... J....

    He was well known to a government as an alien abductee, what's known as a repeater.

  89. C.... B....

    i was watching on netflix and I said ill be damned if that aint soul coughing. never heard this song before

  90. 1.... ....

    I wan't to believe !!!

  91. L.... ....

    R.I.P Max

  92. u.... ....

    Tim Oestmann, you know not what, you started!...

  93. M.... J....

    A man named Max Fenig, hes well known to our government as an alien abductee. What's known as a repeater.

  94. H.... p....

    Can you upload all the pictures on album's cover?

  95. M.... ....

    I recently started watching the x-files over agin on netflix they got it all <3 watching the x-files reminds me of the art bell radio show....god i miss both

  96. P.... R....

    Yeah it was good, but in my opinion, you can't beat the original.

  97. c.... j....

    i luv this song!!1!!1!!