Lee Switzer-Woolf’s “Flying Saucer Working Party” deeply contemplates existential burden and the fight to release loads from the human soul. The words in the song are a masterful fusion of life-like pictures and emotive symbols representing an individual’s mind wrestling with the intricacies of being.

The song starts with some seemingly unrelated phrases such as “Cat fight in the garden”, “Fridge magnet poetry”,”and No one in the mirror”. These ordinary scenes transformed into unfamiliarity connote a life that has been fractured and made difficult. This reference to “lying about the price of things” and “carbonated carcinogens,” indicates how modern life can be poisoning our souls in small, unnoticed ways leading ultimately to disillusionment.

The lyrics explore this theme of existential crisis further as the song progresses. They may suggest an inquiry into meaning through words such as “You told me you saw God again.” It could mean experiencing spiritual or hallucinatory enlightenment but immediately contradicted by being described as” too heavy to be carried.” The phrase recurrence in this tune emphasizes on how hard it is for the speaker to carry emotional and psychological weights.

In like manner, a few lines in these lyrics also explore ideas around connection or lack thereof within them such as when they say, “You and I are databases” and “Recollecting times and spaces.” Here we can see some kind of mechanical relationship between people and memories where it seems like this person is stuck in some sort of an infinite loop for recalling what has happened before them while not living at all.

Last lines of this song – “Come to bed / We can medicate it in the morning” suggest an unsettling resolution that acknowledges they will hardly disappear completely but can be temporarily relieved. In its ability to describe a world often seen as oppressive or alienating; Flying Saucer Working Party becomes an instructive meditation on the issue of meaninglessness and interdependence, a fact that Lee Switzer-Woolf has done well in his lyrics.