The Alien

We’ve got dirt in our lungs, we’ve got forks for our tongues And we lie and we cheat every day When nothing is right, and everyone’s wrong And we wonder why we think it’s ok Dazed and confused, with our unhealed bruises As our small lives, slip away Cos the older we get, the firmer we set As the cynical eats us away Oh why, am I here Oh why, not there There are horses for courses and seasons for all sorts But don’t worry it’s all ok At least that’s what they said, but the voices in my head Keep telling me it shouldn’t be this way You were young once and free now you’re old just like me We’ve lost the hope of our day And the older we get, all the lessons we forget As mistakes slowly eat us away Oh why, am I here And do you, really care Don’t tell me your happy, with your pics on display I know the real truth in your heart The older you get, the bitter I bet As the truth slowly tears you apart With every thing being done, nothing new to become No thoughts or ideas of our own time We forget and ignore, all that’s has come before Because we know better these days Oh why, am I here Are you, really there We know more than our parents, who knew more than theirs, Oh look at all we have made The bright shinning lights that that drown out the night Oh the wonders we make everyday The truth of it is we’ve lost knowledge and wisdom, The further and further we get From the truth that was given, on our hearts it was written, We are no better off these days Oh why, Am I here Oh why, not there. So lost, so alone In this world, in this place, far from home Don’t lie and tell me that things make me happy, Don’t tell me that I’m almost there, The next thing that I get, will make it better I bet So I’m better off getting it now Get us off this treadmill, from this rat race circle From the promise of all we deserve In our western world, we’re the cursed ones we heard of We’re the warning that was given that day Oh why, am I here And do you, really care Oh come, wipe us away Oh come, wipe me away first.