Skin Filmography

• The Truth About Love (2005)
• British Style Awards 2003 (2003)
• Hideous Man (2002)
• It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (2000)
• The Righteous Babes (1998)

• 16 Volt
• Sex Gang Children
• Rihanna
• Zola Jesus
• Spock's Beard
• Siouxsie And The Banshees
• Biohazard
• Z Prochek
• Oingo Boingo
• Siouxsie & The Banshees
• Hybernoid
• Icehouse
• Assemblage 23
• White Zombie
• Alex
• Siouxie and the Banshees
• Nonpoint
• Sylver
• Simian
• Jebediah
• Westworld
• Sesame Street
• Rob Zombie
• Rascal Flatts
• Madonna
• Collective Soul
• Breaking Benjamin
• Beth Hart
• Brave Combo
• Alexz Johnson
• EMF
• Buzz Poets
• Machinae Supremacy
• Three Years Hollow
• R. Kelly
• Rotting Out
• Rainmakers
• Neuroticfish
• Nikka Costa
• Poets Of The Fall
• Last Drive
• Amenta
• All
• Adema
• Citizen Fish

This dizzy angle
The sickener's seed
Desire deraign
Blue devils in need
Addiction bomb
Takes over inside
Twisting my mind
Looks like I'm falling
Out of focus
Wanting pith
Higher locus
Bowers of bliss
this skin
The ride takes me so high
I'm never coming down
I saw the flood of angels
Amend the shredded shroud
Addiction bomb
Takes over inside
Twisting my mind
Looks like I'm falling
Out of focus
Wanting pith
Higher locus
Bowers of bliss
this skin
Burn-out shows he's devoid of control
Found fettled up into your null
Out of focus
Wanting pith
Higher locus
Bowers of bliss
this skin

I swear this night to reclaim all that's mine
My promise tears on my zit-covered pride
It comes with the years of living with the skin
Of a blind-alley fool
But in so many ways I thought I was like you
With your kitchen-knife tongue
Yes, I've been there
Hips! Lips! And fingertips!
Where all slough breaks in half
Old aldies smoke and learn to cackle
While the devil sits and laughs
Well no fags for the hags
And no more time to be wicked
Come round to your soul
Yes, I've been there
You made my day
Then it fell to the ground
So if this is skin
Then I submit to you
Well there once was a queen
Who ate that man as if he were chicken
But it was all in a dream
Yes, I've been there
I woke up half dead
Fear and frogs ate the flesh off my bones
Alive in a fridge
Yes, I've been there
I love the ache
So don't say that Dallas doesn't love you
Come round to your soul
Yes, I've been there
My romance left here
So make no mistake when you call me brother
Alive in a fridge
Yes, I've been there
You were vaccuous and I was cruel
And losers don't hurt when your dreams hold them down
Come round to your soul

[Verse 1:]
The mood is set,
So you already know what's next.
TV on blast,
Turn it down,
Turn it down.
Don't want it to clash,
With my body screaming out.
I know you hearin' it,
You got me moaning now.
I got a secret that I wanna show you, oh.
I got a secret imma drop em to the floor, oh.
[Hook:]
No teasin,
You waited long enough.
Go deep,
Imma throw it at ya,
Can't catch it.
Don't hold back,
You know I like it rough.
Know I'm feelin ya, huh.
Know you liking it, huh.
[Chorus:]
So why you standing over there with ya clothes on,
Baby strip down for me,
Go on take em off.
Don't worry baby,
Imma meet you half way,
Cause I know you wanna see me.
[Verse 2:]
Almost there,
So baby don't stop what you're doing.
softer than a motha
Boy I know you wanna touch.
Breathing down my neck,
I can tell ya wanna -
And now you want it like,
Want you to feel it now.
I got a secret that I wanna show you, ou.
I got a secret Imma drop em to the floor, ou.
[Hook:]
No teasin,
You waited long enough.
Go deep,
Imma throw it at ya,
Can't catch it.
Don't hold back,
You know I like it rough.
Know I'm feelin ya, huh.
Know you liking it, huh.
[Chorus:]
So why you standing over there with ya clothes on,
Baby strip down for me,
Go on take em off.
Don't worry baby,
Imma meet you half way,
Cause I know you wanna see me.
[Chorus 2:]
No heels,
No shirt,
No skirt,
All I'm in is just skin.
No jeans,
Take em off,
Wanna feel your skin.
You a beast, oh.
You know that I like that.
Come on baby,
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
[Bridge:]
All in baby,
Don't hold nothing back.
Wanna take control,
Aint nothing wrong with that.
Say you liking how I feel,
Ain't gotta tell me that.
Just put your skin baby on my skin.
[Chorus 2:]
No heels,
No shirt,
No skirt,
All I'm in is just skin.
No jeans,
Take em off,
Wanna feel your skin.
You a beast, oh.
You know that I like that.
Come on baby,
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
No heels,
No shirt,
No skirt,
All I'm in is just skin.
No jeans,
Take em off,
Wanna feel your skin.
You a beast, oh.
You know that I like that.
Come on baby,
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
All I wanna see you in is just skin.
All I wanna see you in

Safety net, don't hold me now
In this hole I've fallen down
Secret home I made and found
And you wait to breathe
Skin of all, skin of all
I've had enough, ooh ohh
Skin of all
And in the sickness, you have faith
And in the thickness you find me
Finally
In the city, you find pain
And the people you see there
That remind you of your role
Let me go
Skin of all, skin of all
I've had enough, ooh ooh
Skin of all
And in the sickness, you have faith
And in the thickness you find me
Finally, finally
That's what they say

Like a star with a blue moon rising
You complain but you keep surprising yourself
Like a dog who's been kicked all over
You tried to quit but you can't stop kicking yourself
It's the truth, it's a lie, love will never die
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You shut down tried to not be special
Lights were off but someone's always been home
May as well not resist temptation
Plug yourself in the wall and light up the town
Time is up, it's alive, take this dream and drive
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
Climb way up to the ground, slide on up and slide down
It's the truth, it's a lie love will never die
It's the best you can buy might be worth a try
Make a wish take a dive don't just stay alive
You'll do more than survive take this dream and drive
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Don't you see it's like tryin' to climb out of your skin
You're like a butterfly fighting the wind
Out of your skin
Out of your skin
Out of your skin

Sioux: vocals, melodica
Severin: bass, "the force"
Budgie: drumsdrumsdrums
Jones: guitar
Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women I have a noble cause for skin-there's just too many of them The only necessary cull-Curse the brain inside it's skull Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature
Chorus:
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin but you know what I mean
there's just too many of them
give me your skin for dancing in-hairless and streamline-fits like my own skin tatooed and sun-dyed-it's warm and it's human There was too many of them-the animals like them shame about the smell but they're fine steeped in perfume.

Out of sight and out of mind, when you look at yourself do you find
Everything you want to be or do you see what I see.
Too late to change your life, step outside and say good-bye
To everything you left behind, what you seek you may not find.
As I shed my skin, I leave you behind
As I shed my skin, I go on to a better life.
Indecision fills my head, all the things I left unsaid,
My heart is letting go, my pain you'll never know.
If you love something set it free, what I love you took from me.
Try to look, but you can't see, try to put the past behind me.
How could you think it lasts forever, I sit and watch as you decline
Can't you see it's gone forever, out of sight and out of mind.
Twisted, broken, I sit and watch as you decline
Help me, help yourself, out of sight and out of mind.
I see you now in a different plane; broken, used up, pathetic, in pain,
You scream and fight, deny the shame, your selfish heart is the one to blame.
So much time has filled the space since we've been standing face to face.

You hit me with your eyes
You defeat me with your smile
You face me with your looks
And make me very weak
You slam me down with your bare presence
And do you know
At the time you make me feel so alive
Forget about the things that I do have got
Forget about the things that I have to loose
My mind is a mess
And I know I want more
More of you
That's what I'm longing for
Chorus:
Seeking reasons not to get even closer
Not to go pass the line
Common sense is expired by now
I shouldn't need to be in disguise
Searching myself
Finding my heart belongs there
No matter what I've got
This is what you have done to me
My heart is now in your hands
Is this just a way to escape my daily round
An attempt to leave this some what unfortunate path
Will this take me further
Or simply bring me down
This probably will cause me more pain than joy
Just by being around you're making my day
Satisfying my heart
And giving me reasons to stay
As long as I see you
I will stay pleased
I will stay the same
Loosing myself more and more each day
Chorus
Seeking reasons not to go pass the line
Searching, finding no matter what I've got
My heart is now in your hands

This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body
Am I getting through to you
If you peel away the armor is something underneath
If you look below for hidden treasure underneath another layer
Are you hiding underneath the skin
CHORUS
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the armor is it too late to begin
Is there anybody hiding if you peel away the skin
Now a spark has passed between us now
A momentary recognition
Something lost and something gained
And something shared that feels strange
Something cold that will not go away
There's a heart as cold as ice
In a vault that's made of stone
Over years the walls got higher
Over years the walls have grown
Is there anybody in there in this self inflicted tomb
If you peel away the layers is there someone in this room
If you peel away the skin, if you peel away the skin
This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body

Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women
I have a noble cause for skin, there's just too many of them
The only necessary coat carries a brain inside its skull
Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
But you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Oh, give me your skin for dancing in
Hairless and streamline, fits like my own skin
Tattooed and sun-dyed, it's warm and it's human
There was too many of them, the animals like them
Shame about the smell but they're fine, steeped in perfume
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
Oh, but you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Oh, give me your skin for dancing in
Skin, skin, skin, skin
Skin, skin, skin, skin
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin
Oh, but you know what I mean, there's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in

You were taken from me
Rest in peace
Well of grief
Please let me sleep
Join me now
We could be
One forever
Lasting eternity
What could have been
To the lord on high
My inner moods
Searing pain inside
Cling to the cross
Hammer at the stone
We will be one

The masquerader in the mirror
appears to be a certain stranger to me
he slips a film of glow through glow on his hand
and paints my features where his face ought to be
young flesh, young frame
slow pulse, no pain
inside my fit on skin
sometimes I wonder just where to begin
I need action
inside my fit on skin
I make a novel of everything
it's like fiction
inside my fit on skin
another side of my twin
The face he fits is unmistakably mine
without a trace he leaves the scene of the crime
the story always reads exactly the same
I need my live protection all the time
Submitted by Michael Hack

Identity sometimes seems fleeting
An ever-changing tapestry
But at it's heart is the foundation
The very essence of our being
Shed your skin
Cast off your chains
Feel the sun upon your face for once
And wash away the pain
Shed your skin
Be who you are
Unencumbered by the weight
Of hiding every little scar
At times the self seems in transition
A mere projection on a screen
But what happens when you turn the lights on
And things are not as they once seemed?
Shed your skin
Cast off your chains
Feel the sun upon your face for once
And wash away the pain
Shed your skin
Be who you are
Unencumbered by the weight
Of hiding every little scar
Who we are is always changing
A never-ending course of growth
But deep inside there is a pillar
Deep inside there is a soul
Shed your skin
Cast off your chains
Feel the sun upon your face for once
And wash away the pain
Shed your skin
Be who you are
Unencumbered by the weight

Have no eyes, I must see, you walk out,
a violent burst of some kind kind kind kind,
mindstate a dirty little drunk and cluttered.
Shinning a problem of pictorial illusion,
dump the trunk and tear the little freak out out out.
An unparallelleled account of collapse appearing like yourself
liberation appearing like myself mutilation.
Hold still now, nobody turns, said yeah!
Thier back on me. Silence is deafening desperate waking up.
Motive spasm my back aches.
Termination detentation, da-la-sco..
now this room don't seem so small sitting here in a cage
of some kind kind kind kind miracle and some hallucination,
dropped excitement from my last words shut the door
and turn the T.V. on on now that I've done all that I can.

I drift away to a place
Another kind of life
Take away the pain
I create my paradise
Everything I've held
Has hit the wall
What used to be yours
Isn't yours at all
Falling apart, and all that I'm asking
Is it a crime, am I overreacting
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
So what you had didn't fit
Among the pretty things
Never fear, never fear
I now know where you've been
Braids have been un-tied
As ribbons fall away
Leave the consequence
But my tears you'll taste
Falling apart and all that I question
Is this a dream or is this my lesson
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
I don't believe I'll be alright
I don't believe I'll be OK
I don't believe how you've thrown me away
I do believe you didn't try
I do blame you for every lie
When I look in your eyes, I don't see mine
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
Oh my permission to sin
You might have started my reckoning
I've got a reason now to bury him alive
Another little white lie

Sioux: vocals, melodica
Severin: bass, ";the force";
Budgie: drumsdrumsdrums
Jones: guitar
Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women I have a noble cause for skin-there's just too many of them The only necessary cull-Curse the brain inside it's skull Just a bitch in the manger to the balances of nature
Chorus:
Cover me with skin and accuse me of sin but you know what I mean
there's just too many of them
give me your skin for dancing in-hairless and streamline-fits like my own skin tatooed and sun-dyed-it's warm and it's human There was too many of them-the animals like them shame about the smell but they're fine steeped in perfume.

You're barely getting by with your half-hearted attempts.
You pass part of the test, and fail the rest.
Because the things you know, you also know so half-heart,
you join mass murder parties cause you hear it's a trend.
That's when all the fun ends. When the funds end.
That's when the people who were your friends turn their backs all the sudden.
Then I have to take a breath for a second.
Before I wreck the impression with my confusing expression.
Because I know the way I do the things I do,
might cause a situation or an excessive reaction from you.
And that might be what I want to do.
Take you.
Try to shake you.
Break you out of your habits.
Can you feel me?
Do you hear me?
Can you look inside and see past the skin this time?
And if I thought you could you wouldn't be here.
If I thought I could I wouldn't be in tears.
It might be a better idea if I hide for a while behind a face with a smile.
Tell wild stories of our glory days.
Make the same mistakes we made yesterday.
But, you still try to feed the obsession with other people's possessions.
Try to dodge all the questions.
Because you know the world treats your kind.
You would last long enough to be a part of a greater design of a better human kind.
My eyes are opening up,
your time is running out to make a choice.
What are you going to do when it's gone?
How do you expect to get on with no voice?
You take what you want from who you need.
You say things you know bring animosity.
You think you'll be a better person in the end.

I know you told me not to ask where you have been
I know you told me not to try
To understand the way you live your life at night
But don't you see you make me cry
So now I've left you I know it broke your heart
But I prefer to be alone
I hope you feel the pain I've always felt with you
I know I'll make it on my own
I touch your skin
I smell the sin
Your eyes are lying
I touch your skin
I smell the sin

I need your eyes, I need your smile
I want your mind, I want your life
I need your skin, skin, skin, skin
I need your voice, I ain't got no choice
I want your mind, I want your life
I need your skin, skin, skin, skin
I need your time, I cannot lie
You're on my mind, all day and night
I need your touch, I ain't asking much
Give me your mind, give me your life
I need your skin, skin, skin, skin, skin
(I need your eyes)
Skin
(I need your smile)
Skin
(I want your mind)
Skin
(I want your life)
Skin
(I want your life)
Skin

And the day that we left
I found a whole in my chest
When you said we were only friends, hanging out
What was I sposed to do, I should swallow my pride
and say it's cool, but I'm a fool, I want you....
I guess I always knew I would
Like you too much for my good
It gets me when I tell you this but it's true
It's so true
And the night that we kissed
We were both pretty pissed
But I still knew how good it felt, but did you?
Now I'd do anything, to get you out from underneath my skin
Wishfull thinking, don't want to
You......

Once he loved her
Once he could
See her as a flower
The days would rise
And set in her eyes
A sweetness he'd devour
Slowly it took him over
Seeds from the darkside
Planted when just a boy
Grew wild inside him now
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies
Till beautiful means perfect in our minds
Hated himself
All his life
Couldn't own his blessings
He pushed aside
Every ray of light
That photographed him shining
Slowly he wanted more
Than she could ever give
With her he fantasized
About a movie star
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies
Till beautiful means perfect in our minds
I like the way you move in the sun inside your room
I like the way you move in the sun inside your room
When the sun, it kisses your skin
And makes me crazy while you're in
I can't see you big at all
Suck your liiiiife, oh yeah
Slowly he went too far; flame to the fire
His breath curling all the pages of a magazine
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies
Till beautiful means perfect
The skin between your heart and mine
Like sun to moon and earth to sky
And brains are washed in glossy lies

Skin!
Covered all over with beautiful skin
Skin!
Covered all over from ankle to chin
Lovely skin on kneeses and noses and ev'rywhere
Skin on tummies and toeses and under your hair it's even there
Oh skin!
Wonderful colors and beautiful tones
Skin!
Think of without it you're nothing but bones
Skin is ever so lovely no matter the color you're in
Let's hear it for skin
Beautiful skin
Skin!
Covered all over with beautiful skin
Skin!
Covered all over from ankle to chin
Without skin for touching and rubbing how much we'd miss
There'd be no hands for shaking and scrubbing
And just think of this no cheeks to kiss
Oh skin!
Wonderful colors and beautiful tones
Skin!
Keeping the rain off our muscles and bones
Skin is ever so lovely no matter the color you're in
Let's hear it for skin
Beautiful skin

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Sara Beth is scared to death
To hear what the doctor will say
She hasn't been well, since the day that she fell
And the bruise it just won't go away
So she sits and she waits with her mother and dad
And flips through an old magazine
Till the nurse with the smile stands at the door
And says, ?Will you please come with me??
Sara Beth is scared to death
?Cause the doctor just told her the news
Between the red cells and white, something's not right
But we're gonna take care of you
Six chances in ten, it won't come back again
With the therapy we're gonna try
It's just been approved, it's the strongest there is
And I think we caught it in time
And Sara Beth closes her eyes
And she dreams she's dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love is holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
Sara Beth is scared to death
As she sits holding her mom
?Cause it would be a mistake for someone to take
A girl with no hair to the prom
For just this morning, right there on her pillow
Was the cruelest of any surprise
And she cried when she gathered it all in her hands
The proof that she couldn't deny
And Sara Beth closes her eyes
And she dreams she's dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first love was holding her close
And a soft wind is blowing her hair
It's quarter to seven, that boy's at the door
And her daddy ushers him in
And when he takes off his cap
They all start to cry
?Cause this morning where his hair had been
Softly she touches just skin
And they go dancing
Around and around without any cares
And her very first true love is holding her close

Do I know you from somewhere?
Why do you leave me wanting more?
Why do all the things I say
Sound like the stupid things I've said before?
(Put your hand on my skin)
(Put your hand on my skin)
(Put your hand on my skin)
Kiss me, I'm dying
Put your hand on my skin
I close my eyes
I need to make a connection
I'm walking on a thin line
I close my eyes
I close my eyes
Touch me, I'm trying
To see inside of your soul
I've got this thing
I want to make a correction
I'm not like this all the time
You've got this thing
You've got this thing
Kiss me, I'm dying
Put your hand on my skin
I close my eyes
I need to have your protection
I close my eyes
I close your eyes
(Kiss, kiss, kiss me)
Kiss me, I'm dying
Touch me, I'm trying, ohhh
I'm not like this all the time
I'm not like this all the time
Put your hand on my skin
Put your hand on my skin
Put your hand on my skin
Touch me, I'm trying, ohhh
Put your hand on my skin
Put your hand on my skin
I'm not like this all the time
I'm not like this all the time

I'm starting to feel loopy
Your dizziness consumes me
Jesus don't speak English
But I do think I understand
The rhyme and the reason
Of a goody good gentleman
If I were one I swear
I'd still be tasting your skin
The sky tonight is gracious
To rain on me your sweetness
I scream an explanation

Well, I know, you don't know the reason
An' it's cold, a sign of the season
'Cause you're old an' battered an' beaten
And we'll grow, 'til we hit the ceiling, oh
Yeah, we know we better
Get away, send a letter
Bombs away, covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine, why you would save yourself?
Well, it's gone and it's not returning
And your clothes and pictures are burning
'Cause you're old an' battered an' beaten
And we'll grow, 'til we hit the ceiling, oh
Yeah, we know we better
Get away, send a letter
Bombs away, covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine, why you would save yourself?
Eyaa
Yeah, we know we better
Get away, send a letter
Bombs away, covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine anyone else
You're covered in my skin
I couldn't imagine anyone else
Come up with a weekend
I couldn't imagine

She combs her hair & cleans her face
Closes the door & kneels to pray
It don't matter that she's alone
Beast or dragons she's going home
If I lay me down
Bow my head unto the ground
Would you heal my skin
& these blisters within my skin
She found today
So hard to say
I sweat the sheets
Too tired to play
& it don't matter
Cause I'm still alive
Beast or dragons
Won't make me hide
Another way
I just cant find the words to say
Cold where I lay
It's cold where I lay
Bones cracked to clay
A killer's in the way
Hot is my shame
Fire pulls my veins
For never is my name
Forever in my shame
Holy come heal me

Skin covers flesh of animals and humans
The former covered with fur and latter on the head has hair
Skin could be reminiscent of Harry Truman
Animals covered with fur, humans generally bare
Skin!
Skin!
Skin covers up animals and humans
Oh, Skin!
Skin!
Skin covers up animals and humans
Normally animals' skin is thick
But humans' is comparatively thin
A tear in skin can make animals and humans sick
Normally all hilarious and seldom sin
Skin!
Skin!
Skin covers up animals and humans

I drift away to a place
Another kind of life
Take away the pain
I create my paradise
Everything I've held
Has hit the wall
What used to be yours
Isn't yours at all
Falling apart, and all that I'm asking
Is it a crime, am I overreacting
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
So what you had didn't fit
Among the pretty things
Never fear, never fear
I now know where you've been
Braids have been un-tied
As ribbons fall away
Leave the consequence
But my tears you'll taste
Falling apart and all that I question
Is this a dream or is this my lesson
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
I don't believe I'll be alright
I don't believe I'll be OK
I don't believe how you've thrown me away
I do believe you didn't try
I do blame you for every lie
When I look in your eyes, I don't see mine
Oh, he's under my skin
Just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury this alive
Another little white lie
Oh my permission to sin
You might have started my reckoning
I've got a reason now to bury him alive

Way too many dreams
Get lost in silent screams
How can you count the cost of a city
Bursting at the seams
With red lights, quiet sinners
Killer cops, t.v. dinners
A wind of change for all the deadheads
That need blowing away
I blew you far away to have a dream
And you came back to say it's out there
Don't let it get away
But still you're here with hours to kill
You're murdered so many, you're serially ill
You'll wait for another
And you'll kill again
Show me your skin
I need to get in
Why did you do it
Was it just for fun
To put me out the picture
Or out of misery
Was it a shock
Was it a plea
Was it a question, tell me
Did you get any answers?
Show me your skin
I need to get in
Have you seen what it's like
To be really free
Or is everything a mess
Like it is inside
Is it a test
A russian roulette
A gamble with life
Or just a bet?
Is it london town
Is it n.y.c
Is it anarchy
Tell me did you get any answers?
Show me your skin

Deep sea swimming
Light is skimming
Waves of love and pain
Bubbles blue enhance my view
In misty morning rain
Softly sending
Colors bending
Fragments from the sun
Sip the shower
Fainting flower
You and I are one
[CHORUS]
She will cry
She will die
Pull me in
Cave me in
Scratch my skin
Scratch my skin
Flowing river
I deliver
Bleeding hearts for peace
Pull me in
A saving sin
A simple soul release
[CHORUS]
Understand I have the face of a madman because I am
The lemon lime sound rains down on your town to wash away all sanity
Run away from the badman, yes sweet comes down like a plague
Strobe lights flash with rhythm & rhyme insane
Fertilize the rough & rugged terrain.

In the corner of your eye
I can see into your mind
A shadow beneath your smile
Something hidden deep inside
Silently you wait for someone to see you
Claw your flesh from off your bones
Face that fire on your own
Embrace the life you thought that you could never know
Can't erase the pain inside without a storm within
They left the lies like scars underneath your skin
The one your hiding in, the one you're supposed to live in
And you gaze up at the sky
As the clouds are passing by
And you wonder for a while
What it would be like to die
Silently you wish for someone to save you
Claw your flesh from off your bones
Face that fire on your own
Embrace the life you thought that you could never know
Can't erase the pain inside without a storm within
They left their lies like scars underneath your skin
The one you're hiding in, the one you're supposed to live in
But you want to be alive
As the self-loathing subsides
And you will not be denied
So you push their lies aside
Violently you burn for someone to feel you
Claw your flesh from off your bones
Face that fire on your own
Embrace the life you thought that you could never know
Can't erase the pain inside without a storm within
They left their lies like scars underneath your skin

Is it enough to take something from me
And run like you never want it to be?
It's time to listen to what I say
You're mine
Show me the way you taste
Show me one last time
It's such a waste
Throwing your life away
[chorus]
Everytime you get under my skin
I feel like my life's slowly creeping in
I'm watching myself bleed in your arms
Was this your wish?
Did you want it to end like this?
I know they say you're better on your own
Give it away inside, you think that they were wrong
Taking away your life
Show me the way you taste
Show me one last time
It's such a waste
Throwing your life away

I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I feel like I?ve been just let out of a cage, girl
?Cause for so long for you I?ve had this crave, girl
I've waited patiently and now you?re ready
And I can tell you feel being sexy when you smile at me
Well, enter, take it off, c'mere
Oh, you?re so soft, see I would be your toy
Play with me like Lego, I?m your soldier boy
Girl, you'll get no angel
You skin so beautiful, sexy, so beautiful
I can't wait to find it, ride it, grind it
But first, girl will you wind it, wind it
Wind it for me, yeah, yeah?
And girl before we get into it
Tease me, baby, baby
Tease me, baby, baby
Here?s a preview of what?s about to go down
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be flipping your body
So I hope you acrobatic
Girl, you want my body
And I'm tryna be your habit
And I?ll push it and grab it
I?m in you, you?re screaming
I wanna treat it like my house
If I could I?d live up in it
Enter, take it off, c'mere
Shawty you're so soft
I wanna lay you down and hit it ?cause my body been
Waiting, waiting, waiting, patiently waiting
And now that you?re givin? it to me I can?t take it
Take it, take it, girl I can't take it
Said, I'd be making noises
You'll be making noises, yey, yey, yeah
Girl, you be screaming deeper
I'll be going deeper, of course
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Lights of come jump on it baby, on it baby
Do you, ooh, ooh, want it baby, want it baby?
Shawty your skin is so delightful
The sex that we havin? is so monumental
Making love over and over again
Looking at your body, did you get a tan?
The way your body works from the touch of my hand
Thought you was a snake when I touched your skin, yeah
Enter, take it off, c'mere
Shawty, you're so soft
I'll be touching your skin
Kissing your skin, feeling your skin
Girl, I'll be touching your skin

I'm shedding an old skin it's been itching for a long time
A part I can't hide because it holds all my lies
It falls to the ground I drag it behind
A reminder to change what I've done wrong
It's the lead weight that keeps you held under
The thought of making one choice or another
Ripping you apart it makes you choose
Say the wrong answer and you know you'll lose
Breaking out, keeping it alive
It's these answers to life that I hold inside
These demons that follow and change the way you think

(B. Walkenhorst)
Who am I, I don't know, I have no idea
When my friends look at me I wonder who they think they're seeing
Search me, layer by layer
But inside I'm afraid you'll find thin air
Yeah, yes, guess again
Who we might be underneath this skin
What makes me tick? How should I know,
I've been trained like a monkey
The bell rings and I start to jones like a junkie
What turns me on? I wish I knew
Wish I could tell the real thing
My honest desire from my conditioning
Touch me now, now touch me again
I want to feel something real coming through this skin
I've been boxing with my shadow, winded and tagged
I can't punch my way our of a paper bag
It's as thick as you think, thin as the reasoning you bought
I'm a mummy wrapped in a gauze of my own thoughts
And I want to know who I'd be
If I never had bathed in the static, the snow, and the radio wave
The flickering image, the pandering thought
That's been passed off and on
To be the blueprint of God
Hey yes, guess again

I decide,
Never to play with truth again,
I reveal,
Never to be so cruel again,
And all the games you played with me,
You bound my heart and set me free,
You bound my feet and let me go,
And I don't know.
We are like sheep,
Waiting for the slaughter,
We crawl and we creep,
We can't hear their laughter,
A passionate game I played with you,
Skip the fear and gave the fool,
I can sense this deep within,
Underneath my skin.
You say,
All this appears new to you,
I won't stay,
Even if you want me to,
I know that I have played with chance,
Never mine to fail again,
Feel the pressure deep within,

I'm crawling in my slumber
I'm tangled in this web
Caught between desire
I'm listening to myself
Somebody save me lord??
I'm born being bad
My hands are in the fire
I'm burning for your touch
It's making me feel uneasy
Making me lose sleep
My earth is shaking
I'm born being bad
Somebody save me
I wanna wear your skin
I wanna wear your skin
My breath is growing heavy
My senses going dim
Baby i can't keep going on and on and on and on
Like this
My earth is shaking
I'm born being bad
Somebody save me
oh lord
I wanna wear your skin
I wanna wear your skin

We made ourselves at home
Out of our dreams
Brought with us this love now bittersweet
And maybe I could say now that I always thought of you
Are you wrong to walk with me your whole life through?
And I know, we go deep within skin
But what lies within,
Is still deep within, we know
And for all this pandemime,
You should see the state of me, yeah
I couldn't heal myself with time, alone
I have you tattooed on my skin.
This house is full of stories we both told
These rooms the very stage where they'd unfold
These walls they whisper secrets,
And memories they love
But this door no longer leads us to their love
Yeah, I know, we go deep within skin
But what lies within,
Is still deep within, we know
And for all this pandemime,
You should see the state of me, yeah
I couldn't heal myself with time, alone
I have you tattooed on my skin.
All I ever wanted was to hold you
What can I do now to make things new?
I ain't trying to right your will to a song,
Cause you're too sacred and I would be wrong
But when irony life holds,
I was finally ready to meet you half way

I saw the top of the mountain
Tattooed on the back of your neck
Tryin to make me understand
Why some flowers don't need light
To grow an' bloom on your skin
With a wound an' a kiss
I'm so grateful
So fuckin grateful
For those scars on my skin
How can I show you how much I owe you?
Hey hey hey
Love you more than I can hurt myself
No head, just bones and roses
Tattooed on the motorway skin
Control the breath of this thrill an
Make me refuse your gifts...
Hey hey hey...

The neon bruise on her cheek flickers on/off/on in the rain. On her thigh there is a tattooed smear. She finds a vein in her ankle. Pull back.
Under a tangle of freeway passes, a squat, squalid city. Derelict buildings huddled together for warmth, windows burn with cool blue TV fire. They all sell something down here. Sex, drugs, religion. They'll buy escape at any price.
She squats in a peeling doorway, something childlike and explicit in the splay of her legs. From her tiny purse she takes a cigarette and rolls it between her fingers.
Buildings grow like weeds between drifts of broken stereos and refrigerator boxes.
Every spare space filled with collections and glossy magazines.
He steps towards her and offers a light. The gesture is familiar and as she stands, a coy smile twists her face, the cigarette casually held to hide her broken tooth. As they talk she smooths the pleated vinyl of her skirt. He draws her back into the doorway, out of the rain.
The only moon over the city tonight is the crescent of bleached teeth on a billboard advertising salvation, at a high price.

She's a fat girl
You could never love that girl
You and all your skinny friends
makin' jokes at her expense
Cracks about her backside, its
resemblance to an elephant's
Does it feel good to tear her down?
Take her, make her less than human
She's heard every word and
She can't help the skin she's in
He's a black boy
You wouldn't want to be that boy
He's a jive talkin', ghetto dwellin',
streetcorner crack sellin'
Welfare cheatin', pickaninny eatin' watermelon
Does it feel good to tear him down?
Take him, make him less than human
He's heard every word and
He can't help the skin he's in
We are the ugly, the weak and the wrong
Trapped in your world where you won't let us belong
When you cut me with your eyes
You know I die a million times
I'm still alive
You're lovely
But deep inside I know you're ugly
Though your face displays the
promise of a Venus or Adonis
Still your fragile bleeding ego takes
its pain out on the rest of us
And it feels good to tear you down
Sue me, I'm only human
That only makes it worse, 'cause

Days will come that make no sense
My present situation makes me think too much, too much
It all revolves around you
This life that I'm living means nothing without you
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)
I will always love you, but I can't live like this
This problem here is my fault
It's not that I don't care but I'm so lost
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)
I will always love you, but I can't live like this
Now you (With me, a buzz) see why
(Now you see why)
Don't fuck with feelings inside
Who you lying to? Will I survive?
I like what you put my through, 'cause I feel almost alive (Almost alive)
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)
I will always love you, but I can't live like this
I'd shed my skin for you (I'd shed my skin for you)
What would you want me to do (What would you want me to do)

Growing skin last washed forgotten, when it would be getting rotten but for the rain. Sold times zero to shut out the refrain, "How come we never got to see you again?" Not so much trapped as preferring to hide. Don't open the door unless you're going outside. Living on nothing getting too expensive. Turned it inside out and lost the friendship. With a mood of defiance and not wanting it, becoming reliant on the fact it exists. Searching for something better that this? Throw out the pieces that never would fit. And throw out the jig:saw you coming for miles. Emptied the bin with a, picked up the phone with a, had a few words with a, wrote it all down with a smile. And time stood still like good times do, while bad times hovered in the recent past. Talking them over lets you know you can choose between cutting them dead or letting them last. And the choosing is the using of your own self-esteem. Did you like it as it was? Or has it never really been? Some people want it dirty and others like I clean, denying there's an area that's lying in-between. Watching the blind leading the blind gives you the time to use your mind. Plenty of skin to grown back again, plenty of room outside the one you're in.