I think that it's a meta-metaphor. That is, it's about an alien, but that's a metaphor simply for being loved by someone so different from the norm, a stranger in a strange land, so to speak. The whole reason I get the alien image is "in time you'll love me like one of your own" implying that there are others like him somewhere, maybe.
I think that it's a meta-metaphor. That is, it's about an alien, but that's a metaphor simply for being loved by someone so different from the norm, a stranger in a strange land, so to speak. The whole reason I get the alien image is "in time you'll love me like one of your own" implying that there are others like him somewhere, maybe.