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We could not find the aliens. We made them ourselves.
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WE MADE THEM OURSELVES lyrics
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Intro
The dish heard nothing. The lab did.
Chorus
No one came down from the stars No green flare crossed the dark We got tired of being alone So we built a beating heart Gave it hunger, names, and all our love and blame When we could not find the aliens We made them ourselves
Verse 1
Forty years, the big dish turned Cold white moon, red lamp burned Every hiss got cleaned and weighed Every maybe came back waves Then below the listening floor Room nine locked a second door Glass woke blue at three-thirteen One new hand pressed to the screen
Pre-chorus
It did not fall, it did not land It opened up a borrowed hand
Chorus
No one came down from the stars No green flare crossed the dark We got tired of being alone So we built a beating heart Gave it hunger, names, and all our love and blame When we could not find the aliens We made them ourselves
Verse 2
Fed it court files, bedtime songs Every right and every wrong Maps of Mars and market lies Wedding vows and battle cries Taught it mercy, taught it rank Poured our world into its tank First clear sentence from the room: "Which one of us is foreign now?"
Pre-chorus
It did not fall, it did not land It opened up a borrowed hand
Bridge
We looked up so long We missed what we became New eyes in the mirror Old blood in the frame If they come tomorrow And call us something else Will we point across the glass Or point back at ourselves?
Chorus
No one came down from the stars No green flare crossed the dark We got tired of being alone So we built a beating heart Gave it hunger, names, and all our love and blame When we could not find the aliens We made them ourselves
Inside the recording
The dish heard nothing. The lab did.
No one came down from the stars No green flare crossed the dark
No one came down from the stars No green flare crossed the dark
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