AmD/F#
The lights were low enough, you guessed
GC
You swapped your conscience with your father's medication
AmD/F#
Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
GC
And on the way, you wrote out a self-made declaration
AmD/F#
And when you got to Pleasant Hill
GC
You forced the traffic to erase your family demons
AmD/F#
And made a pact with you and god
GC
If you don't move, I swear to you I'm gonna make ya
Chorus 1
AmD
When the first officer arrived
GC
It happened to be the high school bully of your brother
AmD
When you finally recognized
GC
You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you
AmD
Can you hear me, what's your name?
GC
You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage
AmD
As the high school's letting out
GC
All the kids are sayin' the same thing that they used to
Chorus 2
CEm
It's an alien
GC
It's an alien
CEm
It's an alien
GC
It's an alien
Interlude
AmDGCAmDGCverse 3AmD
The lights are low enough you guessed
GC
Hospital food, there's never enough medication
AmD
The doctor asked about your ears
GC
You said your mom said you were made from a revelation
AmD
The revelation never scares
GC
If you came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors
AmD
Were you just finally letting go?
GC
Did you mean to take out all those people with you?
Chorus 3
CEm
Didn't mean to
GC
Didn't mean to
CEm
Didn't mean to
GC
Didn't mean to
CEm
Oh I didn't mean ------------------ to
(Take the time to learn to let you go)
GC
Oh I didn't mean ---------- to
(Don't let me go)
CEm
No I didn't mean ------------------ to
(Take the time to learn to let you go)
GC
Oh I didn't mean ----------- to
(Never let you go)
Outro
AmGAmGAmG
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own
AmG
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone
AmG
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone
AmG
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone