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Skins

by Anna Dobbin

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1.
Rebound 02:38
No, you can't come over, mister You have got to be out of your mind I barely seen ya And I don't mean to demean ya But I ain't used to lookin' folks eye-to-eye This girl's a menace to me She bore a hole right through me Back in the summer of '09 She filled it up with love And now the lack thereof Makes me want to cry all the time This is what I've found Stand up and rebound Don't let nobody see you down Stand up and rebound He flew in from outer space And landed on a rooftop in Bed-Stuy Cement against my back Delicious summer snack Sweeter 'cause we were sky high This is what I've found Stand up and rebound Don't let nobody see you down Stand up and rebound
2.
Skins 03:33
Curled up in my seat I wait for the wail Of the big train wheels on the north-bound rail I'm coming to see you I'm coming to feel your skin The thick one that you wrap yourself in She's a big girl now San Francisco belle No mother to worry No father to yell But she has too much past And she has too much skin The scarred kind that she traps herself in And she knows where I've gone But she don't know where I've been Because of each other We're crocodile tough But beneath it we ache 'Cause we weren't enough On the south-bound rail It felt like a sin Synapses felt loud and my skull felt thin 'Cause he knows that I'm gone But he don't know where I've been Scar on your shoulder Constellations cajole I can pin down your patterns But not your wandering soul Still, I'm coming to see you I'm coming to feel your skin The thick one that you wrap yourself in And you know that I'm here But you don't know where I've been
3.
I was lying on the ground And through the night air cut the sound of Dan's harmonica Though the steady bass drum filled my chest I was unstable at best Just thinking of the trouble I could cause Can't you see what we've become I'm wrapped around your finger But you're under my thumb It was hardly an interrogation For once an ordinary conversation Both sweet and sad And then into bed we rolled For I had asked and you had told And what did it matter now You could see what we'd become I was wrapped around your finger You were under my thumb And it scared you, I know But you said all along That I'd done nothing wrong I know I talk a lot of nonsense To avoid what's weighing on my conscience But you never seem to mind And I think that you're worth fighting for But God knows I've been wrong before So it's crazy versus far-fetched, I guess There's no way out of what I'm in I'm wrapped around your finger And you're under my skin Well I'm gone now I've moved on now To somewhere brand new But you said all along That I'd done nothing wrong Come on, what did I do? So is it wrong now To say I'm gone now That I've moved on now beyond you
4.
Illuminated against the night are all these white signs "No parking anytime" Well, I'm a lover not a fighter And I'm a law-abider so that's fine You got me on your mind And a pretty little twinkle in your eye And there's no better place to be Than on your good side So run along where you wanna Just please let me tag on for the ride Oh, where will I go When I got no one like you He's a sick sweet talker He's a two-faced excuse for a man He's a splinter in my finger That I'll try to dig out if I can But I won't make no promises And I sure as hell don't have a plan So if what I have to offer ain't enough Then you know I'll understand It might do me good To get back on familiar land Just say the word and I'll leave With my imaginary travelin' band Oh, where will I go When I got no one like you
5.
I know when I see you We'll be the same 'Cause we're caught up in this eternal game Are you sick of playing And saying that this turn will be your last I'm hoping by July I will find Something resembling peace of mind Why can't we pinpoint A when or why or how Aren't we supposed to be grown-ups by now What a coincidence that you should choose to flee For a second I thought you gave a damn for me And I'm no fool but I'll admit that this time I was wrong So, so long I promise to complete what was begun Never resting until what I'm doin' Becomes what I've done Then I'll clean my tired hands of this situation And begin anew without the likes of you Relax, my darling No worries, my dear After all you've made it clear that I'm to disappear It's nearly July and I have found My senses and my defenses And some safe and stable ground I saw her in a new light underneath the city sun She will never be mine, and she'll never be the one Still, her warm embrace, it does more than you could do So, so long to you So long to you
6.
Six Days 02:47
At the time, you made every kind of sense But looking back, it was a foolish call Now every moment we have is so significant That I am crushed under the heaviness of it all You have a knack for making me wonder Why people hurt, why people hate After all, we are mostly water With clock radios that keep us up-to-date Already I see a million mistakes And a million years ahead of me Will you be alongside for them all Or only the next two or three Irrational questions are my recent forte For any discomfort, I will take the blame Six days and you seem ever so different Five nights and I am ever so the same Six days and you seem ever so different Five nights and I am ever so the same
7.
Sugarcane 04:37
I know why they call it "heartbreak" 'Cause my literal heart feels like It's literally exploding Your silence so foreboding Such a one-eighty change Leaves me leaning toward the danger zone I can't help but wonder why Someone as French-fluent as you Is not a better lover But I don't want no other Such an all-consuming fear Keeping my cell phone to my ear for you Sweetness like sugarcane Don't mix with my whiskey brain In forty-eight hours, I think I'll know If you found someone else In the shade of your Saturday eve I'd led myself to believe Had you under my spell Instead, I spilled And I fell on my own weird intentions Sweetness like sugarcane Don't mix with my liquored brain But there's not a lot that I wouldn't do for you Pendulum swinging Desperate ringing in my head Blood pressure high Doctor wondering why I'm not dead Sweetness like sugarcane It's gone, it's gone in my sober brain 'Cause now I know There's not a lot that you wouldn't do for you Sweetness like sugarcane
8.
The Signs 04:00
I went back hungry that morning Thought of breakfast and you all the way home I imagined you alone, Knee deep in the knowledge You're hoping someday to own My favorite part of our mornings Were when you'd wake and you'd tell me your dream The last time was the first time You hadn't dreamed about me I am seeing the signs I am treading emotional landmines Grasping at silver lines But what more can I do I peeled back my skin that morning So you could better see this here vein Blue blood pumping quietly, steadily To the rhythm of your name I am seeing the signs I am treading emotional landmines Grasping at silver lines But what more can I do Go on and disappoint me And I will disappoint you I am seeing the signs I am treading emotional landmines To hell with these silver lines 'Cause what more can I do Go on and disappoint me And I will disappoint you I went back hungry that morning Starved for you all the way home.
9.
Woke on the floor at the foot of your bed With little more than a pillow beneath my head And I hadn't slept so well in almost 24 years The night before, all the worst collided I feel so lost, I confided And you didn't hesitate You said, you'll find your way I'm standing straighter now Got a girl out west and a boy down south But I know that I won't find Anything real anytime soon 'Cause I still sleep on the same side that I occupied Back when people used to ask you, how was I And you said fine, we're doing fine I'm fine I'm doing fine

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released November 15, 2014

Anna Dobbin: co-producer, lyrics, guitar, vocals, banjo, xylophone
Austin Greenfield: co-producer, sound engineering, vocals
Clint Dodson: percussion
Nick Pulito: bassoon, saxophone, keys
Pete Schirmer: bass
Will Levine: lead guitar

Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering

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