Chris Whitley - Alien lyrics

Everybody knows I can tell how you fill your clothes I can see it at the edge of your smile So strange about the dormant desire [Chorus] But everybody knows the alien I can tell how you try to pretend You can see now, I got a foreign friend Everybody knows the alien Everybody knows I can feel it as the tension grows I can see it at the edge of your eyes So strange how it lights up the sky [Chorus] Everybody knows the alien I can tell how you try to pretend You can see now, I got a foreign friend Everybody knows the alien Everyone come out Got shades for the shadows of doubt Get blind, it's most too clear Could get k**ed by beauty and fear Porcelain face on a steel device Mind of gla** and a mask of ice Someone is a million years from home Someone is a stranger and is never alone [Chorus] Everybody knows the alien I can tell how you try to pretend You can see now, I got a foreign friend Everybody knows the alien But everybody knows the alien But everybody knows the alien But everybody knows the alien