[Verse 1]

I'm an alien from another sphere

The thing I like about the earth is the range of colors

Fantastic to mundane. Brilliant to dull

As I was penetrating the ozone, I perchanced to notice the orange peel-like quality of the light playing upon the s- the ocean

I gotta go right now; someone is videotaping me in my spaceship

[Verse 2]

All around, a water tank

Just a-waiting for a train

A thousand miles away from home

Just a-waiting for'n the rain

I walked up to a break-man

Just to give him a line of talk

He said, “if you got money

I'll see that you don't walk.”

“I haven't got a nickel;

Not a penny for to show.”

“Get off, get off, you railroad bum!”

And he slammed the boxcar door

They let me off in Texas

A state I dearly love

The moon, the stars above me… And what else?