"We are strangers by one chromosome" Men: XY Women:XX The difference by one chromosome is the Y in men and the X in women. This is why in the first third of the song he is talking about gender. "Color and culture, language and race". In the second third of the song, he is now talking about nationalities. In the last third, he finishes to say that differences in gender and race don't matter. "We hold these truths to be self evident" precedes 'that all men are created equal' in the Declaration of Independence, and served as the basis for the civil rights movements. This may be overspeculation, but I believe that the "Alien Shore" in question is actually a person that is somehow different. Him "building bridges" to reach "for the Alien shore" may be just like in Entre Nous when he mentions different islands that we are on and us "building...bridges". This shows that what this song means is that him and the other person of different race or sex are making connections with each other. But that's just them.
"We are strangers by one chromosome" Men: XY Women:XX The difference by one chromosome is the Y in men and the X in women. This is why in the first third of the song he is talking about gender. "Color and culture, language and race". In the second third of the song, he is now talking about nationalities. In the last third, he finishes to say that differences in gender and race don't matter. "We hold these truths to be self evident" precedes 'that all men are created equal' in the Declaration of Independence, and served as the basis for the civil rights movements. This may be overspeculation, but I believe that the "Alien Shore" in question is actually a person that is somehow different. Him "building bridges" to reach "for the Alien shore" may be just like in Entre Nous when he mentions different islands that we are on and us "building...bridges". This shows that what this song means is that him and the other person of different race or sex are making connections with each other. But that's just them.