Lyrics

Watching them come and go  
The templars and the saracens  
They're traveling the holy land  
Opening telegrams  
  
Torture comes and torture goes  
Knights who'd give you anything  
They bear the cross of coeuf de leon  
Salvation for the mirror blind  
  
But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky  
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear  
Prayers they hide the saddest view  
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)  
And your prayers they break the sky in two  
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)  
You pray til the break of dawn  
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)  
And you'll believe you're loving the alien  
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)  
  
Thinking of a different time  
Palestine a modern problem  
Bounty and your wealth in land  
Terror in a best laid plan  
  
Watching them come and go  
Tomorrows and the yesterdays  
Christians and the unbelievers  
Hanging by the cross and nail

Song details

Artist: David Bowie