They look just like us But something's wrong Their smiles too wide Their limbs too long Not human not human not human I see them standing at the bus stop waiting patiently in line Their faces perfect, too much so, with features too defined They never blink when looking at you, just stare with empty eyes They know exactly where you go and hear your whispered sighs The strangers wear familiar faces of people that we know But something's always slightly off, a detail out of flow The way they tilt their heads to listen when you speak your mind The way they smile when you're in pain, unnaturally kind They're watching from across the street, observing how we live Their movements jerky, incomplete, like they have more to give Something's hiding in their skin, wearing humans like disguise Practicing to be convincing before our very eyes The strangers walk among us now in every crowded place With perfect teeth and empty eyes and skin that's not their face The strangers know what makes you scared, they study all your fears The strangers hear your midnight cries and collect your fallen tears The strangers look almost like people in the light of day But something's wrong inside their soul, they're built a different way The strangers wait until you're sleeping to whisper in your ear To claim another human role when nobody is near They stand too still in crowded places, barely seem to breathe They speak with voices not their own that sound pulled through their teeth They only eat when they are watched and mimic human ways Their skin looks new, like it's been borrowed, fresh in many ways The children notice them the most and point with frightened hands The pets go silent in their presence like they understand I've seen them changing in reflections when they don't know I look Their features shifting, rearranging like pages in a book You've seen them smiling on the subway, nodding as you pass A face familiar but unknown behind a human mask Something's wrong with how they're moving like puppets on a string Like puppets made of flesh and bone trying to do their thing The strangers walk among us now in every crowded place With perfect teeth and empty eyes and skin that's not their face The strangers know what makes you scared, they study all your fears The strangers hear your midnight cries and collect your fallen tears The strangers look almost like people in the light of day But something's wrong inside their soul, they're built a different way The strangers wait until you're sleeping to whisper in your ear To claim another human role when nobody is near …. Hello? Is anyone there? I can hear you breathing... Look outside your window I'm wearing your neighbor's face tonight Tomorrow I might choose yours We've always been here You just never noticed us before …. They walk like humans talk like humans Smile like humans breathe like humans But they're NOT HUMAN NOT HUMAN They're watching learning copying taking Replacing becoming and no one NOTICES Check their eyes check their smile Something's WRONG WRONG WRONG They could be anyone everyone someone Even the person next to you The strangers walk among us now in every crowded place With perfect teeth and empty eyes and skin that's not their face The strangers know what makes you scared, they study all your fears The strangers hear your midnight cries and collect your fallen tears The strangers look almost like people in the light of day But something's wrong inside their soul, they're built a different way The strangers wait until you're sleeping to whisper in your ear To claim another human role when nobody is near Check the mirror carefully We might already be you Look behind you We are everywhere Everywhere... everywhere... everywhere...
