Alien - Chris Whitley

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

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

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 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 killed by beauty and fear

Porcelain face on a steel device

Mind of glass and a mask of ice

Someone is a million years from home

Someone is a stranger and is never alone

Because 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 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