Loving the Alien (Live Montreal '87)

Watchin' them come and go

The Templars and the Saracens

They're traveling the Holy Land

Opening telegrams, whoa-oh

Torture comes and torture goes

Knights who'd give you anything

They bear the cross of Coeur de Leon

Salvation for the mirror blind, whoa-oh

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

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

And your prayers, they break the sky in two

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

Of a different time

Palestine, a modern problem

Bounty and your wealthy land

Terror in the best laid plan, whoa-oh

Watching them come and go

Tomorrows and the yesterdays

Christians and the unbelievers

Hanging by the cross and nail, whoa-oh

But if you pray, all your sins are hooked upon the sky

Pray and the heathen lie will disappear, oh-oh, yeah

Prayers, they hide the saddest view

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

And your prayers, they break the sky in two

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

Oh, pray till the break of dawn

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

And you'll believe you're loving the alien

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

Whoa-ooh, yeah

Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

Yeah, yeah

Peter Frampton on guitar