(Verse 1) cThey came in chrome and silence, through the crack between worlds Not with war, not with wisdom, just flags of fire unfurled They looked at our towers, our monuments to dust And saw a race of builders who had broken their own trust They didn't come with answers, they didn't come with threats They just threw back our panic, our digital regrets We were screaming at the static, they were screaming right back too A feedback loop of terror under a sky of bleeding blue (Pre-Chorus) And the signal got distorted, and the meaning got lost Every line of communication coated hard in frost They didn't want our planet, they just wanted our noise They were tourists of the apocalypse, playing with their toys (Chorus) We are the aliens now! In our own hometown! Creatures of the fallout, wearing a paper crown! We are the strangers in the mirror, the glitch in the machine! The freaks on the frequency, the ones you've never seen! We are the aliens now! We are the aliens now! Burning up the broadcast, tearing the script down! (Drop - chaotic, distorted synth arpeggios, heavy kick drum, bass wobble that feels like a spaceship tearing apart) (Verse 2) They didn't land in Roswell, they landed in our minds A memetic occupation, leaving logic far behind They fed on our outrage, they drank our liquid fear And every prophecy we made just drew them ever near They saw the lines we drew in sand, the borders and the blood The ancient, stupid hatreds buried deep beneath the mud They didn't get the game, the reasons that we kill For flags, for gods, for nothing, for a momentary thrill (Pre-Chorus) And the signal got distorted, and the meaning got lost Every line of communication coated hard in frost They didn't want our planet, they just wanted our noise They were tourists of the apocalypse, playing with their toys (Chorus) We are the aliens now! We are the aliens now! Burning up the broadcast, tearing the script down! We are the aliens now! In our own hometown! Creatures of the fallout, wearing a paper crown! (Bridge - breakdown, sparse, glitchy beats, vocoder voice) Transmission... translation... We see your... isolation... You build walls... with your fear... You make the other... disappear... We are not invaders... we are just a mirror... Showing you the monster... making it clearer... (Beat drops back in, heavier, angrier) (Verse 3) So take your little green men and your flying-saucer dreams The truth is uglier than it always seems The alien is the one you love, the alien is the stranger The alien is the part of you that clocks the danger In a different shade of skin, in a different kind of prayer The alien is the empathy you've forgotten how to share We're all just floating on a rock, in a cosmic sea of black And the only real invasion is the one we don't push back (Chorus - screamed, raw, with maximum distortion) WE ARE THE ALIENS NOW! WE ARE THE ALIENS NOW! BURNING UP THE BROADCAST, TEARING THE SCRIPT DOWN! WE ARE THE STRANGERS IN THE MIRROR, THE GLITCH IN THE MACHINE! THE FREAKS UPON THE FREQUENCY, THE ONES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN! WE ARE THE ALIENS NOW! WE ARE THE ALIENS NOW! A MUTATION OF THE MESSAGE, A REVOLUTION OF SOUND! (Outro - the beat slowly disintegrates into white noise and a single, repeating, distorted synth note. A final, whispered vocal line before silence.) We were always here. We just forgot.
