Here you are at the start – A running train, a broken heart, watching life as the strife strikes through you like a dart
Then you go at it again, see your life pass in the rain – as it falls to the ground like your life, gone down the drain
You remember the past, time eats you up so fast – you were a child, now the time has come and gone for that
You look up to the skies, the clouds are up so high – wishing that you could go back for just one last time

Wishing that you could go back for just one last time

Oh alien, why must you always sigh?
You must be lonely up there, living life up so high
Above the world looking down, you never denied
That in your planet you’re the only one who survived

Oh alien, why must you always cry?
You’ve got no home to return to and no friends for support
But its their fault for not opening those gates of yours
Yeah its their fault for not opening those gates of yours

(oh)

Now you were never that kid – the one with spotlights on him, but you were happy enough not to care about that shit
But when you grew older, the world just grew colder, and kids like you would grow up to become pig fodder
And heroes came and went, your interest in them spent, you never knew what it’s like to feel what “special” meant

You were always the alien – looking in from outside, wondering how it felt like to live a life in their hides
Without having to falter – you never knew what that’s like, so you hid in your spaceship way up high in the skies
But you got kicked in the ass by what you did to yourself, the lonely childhood toys that you hid deep in your shelf
Why would you ever go back? You did nothing for yourself, you brought yourself in this mess, to make up for it in hell

Oh alien, what will you do this time?
Dare you forgive yourself – or deny your very life?
One day the time will come when you gotta make up your mind
And by that time, you’ll be living your own life

Nostalgic alien, you never knew why
The greatest people never held up their heads high
You were born a diamond, always sitting in the rough
The greatest people are just people who’s got it tough

(Alien, oh alien, oh nostalgia alien)

Know where that train is dragging you? It’s going straight to hell – leading you to your demise with just your soul to sell
And when the deal is over, and all the passengers gone, you will be out in the open, singing one last song
But you got time to get off, walk away one last time – before depression devours you and death claims your prime
So look yourself in the window and think a little bit more – the world’s a wider place than you ever thought before

Oh alien, why must you always sigh?
You must be lonely up there, living life up so high
Above the world looking down, you never denied
That in your planet you’re the only one who survived

Oh alien, why must you always cry?
You’ve got no home to return to and no friends for support
And its your fault for not opening those gates of yours
Yeah its your fault for not opening those gates of yours

(oh)