Loving the Alien - David Bowie

Watching them come and go The templars and the saracens They're traveling the Holy Land Opening telegrams Torture comes and torture goes Knights who'd give you anything They bear the cross of coeur de leon Salvation for the mirror blind oh ho But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky Pray and the heathen lie will disappear Prayers they hide the saddest view (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) And your prayers they break the sky in two (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) Thinking of a different time Palestine a modern problem Bounty and your wealth in land Terror in a best laid plan oh ho Watching them come and go Tomorrows and the yesterdays Christians and the unbelievers Hanging by the cross and nail oh ho But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky Pray and the heathen lie will disappear Prayers they hide the saddest view (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) And your prayers they break the sky in two (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) You pray till the break of dawn (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) And you'll believe you're loving the alien (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)

My bones are the bars of a jail And I've never felt completely female I sleep when the sun starts to rise So, I spend the night drying my eyes And I watch all the humans, they move place to place And hide in plain sight with that look on their face Do they feel the same or is it just me? Wish I could fly into that beautiful beam And I don't fit in, I'm struggling I'm trying to be one of them But I'm an alien around here And I don't fit in, I'm struggling I'm trying to be one of them But I'm an alien around here I'm an alien around here My soul's crawling out of my skin Yeah, this gravity's wearing me thin I'd probably breathe better on Mars Floating up there above the stars And I watch all the humans, they move place to place And hide in plain sight with that look in their face Do they feel the pain or is it just me? Wish I could fly into that beautiful beam And I don't fit in, I'm struggling I'm trying to be one of them But I'm an alien around here And I don't fit in, I'm struggling I'm trying to be one of them But I'm an alien around here I'm an alien around here They look at me like I'm from light-years away They look at me like I'm from light-years away And I don't fit in, I'm struggling Now I am not trying to be one of them I'm an alien around here

Try not to worry there's a voiceover Go on, go quiet for a change We can dial down the daylight a little I think the candy blue sky's messing with our brains We must have hit our heads Don't expect familiar feelings No one knows what to talk about Just come lay down here on the couch Drop down out of the clouds you're in Drop down like an alien I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in Drop down like an alien I'll find you something fun to wear That goes along with all your feelings We'll go extremely vivid Buttoned up and unrevealing I can be your nurse or something Bring you watermelon nicotine I can hold a swimmer here To the shore by a string Hurry up, we don't have time Avalanches in my mind I'm getting buried in this dream It's just as soapy as it seems Drop down out of the clouds you're in Drop down like an alien I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in Drop down like an alien There's this one old idea I'm having Stuck in a car wash somewhere and you can't stop laughing Off the rails and no one's coming to get us I think I like it here, so I'm gonna let 'em forget us Hurry up, we don't have time Avalanches in my mind I'm getting buried in this dream It's just as soapy as it seems Drop down out of the clouds you're in Drop down like an alien I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in Drop down like an alien Drop down out of the clouds you're in Drop down like an alien I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in Drop down like an alien

This week dragged past me so slowly The days fell on their knees Maybe I'll take something to help me Hope someone takes after me I guess there's always some change in the weather This time I know we could get it together If I did casually mention tonight That would be crazy tonight Stay - that's what I meant to say Or do something, but what I never say is Stay this time, I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell When somebody wants something you want too Heart wrecker, heart wrecker, make me delight Life is so vague when it brings someone new This time tomorrow I'll know what to do I know it's happened to you Stay - that's what I meant to say Or do something, but what I never say is Stay this time, I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell When somebody wants something you want too Stay - that's what I meant to say Or do something, but what I never say is Stay this time, I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell When somebody wants something you want too