Take Me Home Where I'm Not a Stranger in a Strange Land

I'm a stranger in a strange land
like Alice in wonderland
and I see Scully & Mulder
they're at it on the kitchen floor

maybe i was born here
or maybe it's all a lie
but birth doesn't make this my home
no, life doesn't make this my home
not when worlds collide
over a left-up toilet seat
when everything will end in two thousand
but we all know it'll go on

tell me where I am,
tell me how i got here
tell me what i did
to bring me here

where I'm told aliens aren't human
but I'm told humans aren't either
and I'm told a deadman's hand will get you shot
but all anybody seems to know for sure is "Xena's hot!"

So take me home now
where the trees don't talk
and the snow doesn't scream as you walk
cuz I don't like it here
where ppl say what they don't mean but
ppl mean what they say
cuz this world can't be my home
no this world where no one cares
but everyone says they do

and they say home is where the heart is
but my heart is in another world
so here I am
like a stranger in a strange land
nothing's right, and everything is wrong

so please,
take me home now
where everything is right
take me home now
where ppl don't fight
or at least tell me
why do I have to be here
where everything's right, and everything is wrong
where ppl don't need, but they die in the streets
why do I have to be here
where I'm a stranger in a strange land...

© 05/28/97, Vivre Draco


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