The Alien

There's a lonely star in the night sky
And after a couple of years it might die
Yeah, that's what life's like
We burn and we blaze until we fade away
And it's kind of amazing to me
The fact that, one day, I'll be gone, and that fact can't change
So I guess I'm just riding this wave
Writing some songs, consumed in the shade
Of a little green tree
The sight of a which is so regular to me
But foreign to an alien
And I wonder if it might even be scaring him
The way we perceive and the way that we see
Is so different, from where he's sitting
The cool shadow might seem
Like a cut from a wound that bleeds
My universe breathes like walls on LSD
And the euphoria is like ecstasy
But, what is like sex to me
Is hell to the martian
His walls always seem to darken
And he can't make sense of the jargon
Of the human language
And he hates it
But continues on marching
So I'm paying respect to my brother the alien
My fellow little form of carbon

Do you feel like an alien
Because I certainly do
I have trouble understanding my fellow organisms like you
My black is like white, my lies are like truth, and my red is like blue
When it comes to the answers, I honestly haven't got a clue
I can't understand what the hell I'm supposed to do
But maybe we can just focus on what we know is true
All of this is beautiful, and even the silence is musical
So let's just go to work and make it through school because

There's a lonely star in the night sky
And after a couple of years it might die
Yeah, that's what life's like
We burn and we blaze until we fade away
And it's kind of amazing to me
The fact that, one day, I'll be gone, and that fact can't change
So I guess I'm just riding this wave
Writing some songs, consumed in the shade
Of a little green tree
The sight of a which is so regular to me
But foreign to an alien
And I wonder if it might even be scaring him