The Alien

Am                                   D
The lights were low enough, you guessed
                    G                             C
You swapped your conscience with your fathers medication
Am                             D
Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
                  G                         C
And on the way wrote out a self-made declaration

Am                             D
And when you got to Pleasant Hill
               G                             C
You forced the traffic to erase your family demons
Am                            D
And made a pact with you and god 
              G                            C
If you don't move I swear to you I'm gonna make ya

       C         Em
Do you need me?
       G         C
Do you need me?
       C         Em
Do you need me?
       G         C
Do you need me?

Am                          D
When the first officer arrived
                G                                  C
It happened to be the high school bully of your brother
Am                       D
When you finally recognized
                G                               C
You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you

Am                              D
Can you hear me? What's your name?
                G                                 C
You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage
Am                            D
As the high school's letting out
                G                                  C
All the kids saying the same thing that they used to

      C       Em
It's an alien
      G       C
It's an alien
      C       Em
It's an alien
      G       C
It's an alien

Am                                 D
The lights are low enough you guessed
                 G                        C
Hospital food, there's never enough medication
Am                            D
The doctor asked about your ears
                G                                C
You said your mom said you were made from a revelation

Am                      D
The revelation never scares
                   G                               C
If you came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors
Am                            D
Were you just finally letting go?
                  G                             C
Did you mean to take out all those people with you?

        C      Em
Didn't mean to
        G      C
Didn't mean to
        C      Em
Didn't mean to
        G      C
Didn't mean to

              C                    Em
Oh I didn't mean-----------------to
      (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
            C                    C
Oh didn't mean-----------------to
              (Don't let me go)
              C                      Em
Oh I didn't mean-------------------to
       (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
            C                       Em
Oh didn't mean-----------------to
              (Don't let me go)

Am                                                                  G
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own
Am                                                         G
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone
Am                                                                G
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone
Am                                                          G
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone