Loving the Alien

Oh, I don’t know. Just because I like the sound of it, I guess…

Watching them come and go
The templars and the saracens
They’re traveling the holy land
Opening telegrams

Torture comes and torture goes
Knights who’d give you anything
They bear the cross of coeuf de leon
Salvation for the mirror blind

But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear
Prayers they hide the saddest view
And your prayers they break the sky in two
You pray til the break of dawn
And you’ll believe you’re loving the alien

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

Thinking of a different time
Palestine a modern problem
Bounty and your wealth in land
Terror in a best laid plan

Watching them come and go
Tomorrows and the yesterdays
Christians and the unbelievers
Hanging by the cross and nail

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

—”Loving the Alien” by David Bowie, Tonight, 1984