Manchester Orchestra - The Alien lyrics

The lights were low enough, you guessed
You swapped your conscience with
Your father's medication
Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
And on the way
Wrote out a self made declaration

And when you got to Pleasant Hill
You forced the traffic to
Erase your family demons
And made a pact with you and God:
"If you don't move I swear to
You I'm gonna make ya"

Do you need me? Do you need me?
Do you need me? Do you need me?

When the first officer arrived
It happened to be the high
School bully of your brother
When you finally recognized
You felt some guilt that you had
Even let him touch you

Can you hear me? What's your name?
You could not speak
Just laid amazed at all the damage
As the high school's letting out
All the kids're saying the same
Thing that they used to

It's an alien it's an alien
It's an alien it's an alien

The lights were low enough you guessed
Hospital food
There's never enough medication
The doctor asked about your ears
You said your mom said you
Were made from a revelation

But revelation never scares
Your fear came from your drunken dad
And a pair of scissors
Were you just finally letting go?
Or did you mean to take out
All those people with you?

"Didn't mean to didn't mean to
Didn't mean to didn't mean to"

Oh, I didn't mean to
(Take the time to terrify the throne)
Oh, I didn't mean to
(You'll never let it go)
No, I didn't mean to
(Take the time to terrify the throne)
Oh, I didn't mean to
(They'll never let you go)

Time is here to take your last amendments
And believe them on your own
Time is here to take you by the
Hand and leave you there alone
(You won't ever know)
Time has come to take the last commandment
And to carve it in your stone
(You won't ever know)
Time has come to take you by the
Hand and leave you here alone