The Alien - The Alien lyrics

The zeppelin of World War 3 just bought another pint of gasoline Sits in the background Watches the foreground Every day he is a brand new poem He can't be read 'cause he's always reading Some people are talking They don't even know him He won't sell his soul 'till the day that he dies Some people are talking Talk like they own him You're gonna be all right Freeze-dried You are going on a mission for the human race You chose to spend your last night on Earth With the people you cared about And I'll never forget it I swear That night You had that wild but firm Profoundly intense look in your eyes Like you were ready to lift off into the stratosphere at any moment You knew that land was just a prison A prison with no guard But gravity Through a twist of fate Found a way out Drill holes in the sky The wicked witch on East 4th Street has lost the entirety of her mind She burns her clothes in a bu*terfly pose And feels the weight of every living thing that stumbles down the ground Within a three mile radius of her haunted house The house is a mess but there's room for a guest If Edward Hyde just happened to drop dead You're gonna be all right Freeze-dried You are going on a mission for the human race You chose to spend your last night on Earth With the people you cared about And I'll never forget it I swear That night You had that wild but firm Profoundly intense look in your eyes Like you were ready to lift off into the stratosphere at any moment You knew that land was just a prison A prison with no guard But gravity The other night You had some crazy dream And it all went up up up Now everything I've ever done And everyone I've ever loved And every song I ever wrote And every fortune I didn't tell And every zeppelin I didn't sell And every lie I didn't catch And every UFO I didn't lay Looks bitter and dull and devoid of all flavor But you can fly To the mermaid parade or the merman brawl Or bashing my head into the wall Or the mystery air at the start of Fall There's something burning inside us all Band names in a bathroom stall Will always be prisoners to space and time You can fly Up up up Up up up Up up