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Skin

by The Revenants

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1.
Odd Man Out 05:10
Never fit in here Never fit in there No matter how I tried I never fit in anywhere Did what I could To accommodate But all of my efforts were in vain And that's how it always will remain When you're the odd man out When you're the odd man out When you're the odd man out Of this world Never was no good Never was no bad Never was too happy Never was too sad Changed my hair Changed my look But it never did me good Guess I never understood Never was too weak Never was too strong No matter what I did Never could belong People put me down Said I'm a fool And who was I to disagree There was something wrong with me
2.
You Can Close Your Eyes to the Things You Don't Want to See But You Can't Close Your Heart To the Things You Don't Want to Feel Move on up Move on up Move on up To the movin' groove Get on up Get on up Get on up Get on the move Get on down Get on down Get on down Down to your soul Get in sync Get in sync Get in sync To the drum roll You can close your eyes to the things You don't want to see But you can't close your heart To the thing you don't want to feel Move on in Move on in Move on in Move close to me Shake it to the left Shake it to the right Shake, shake, shake your booty
3.
Secret Song 04:52
Every night I say a prayer I say a prayer for a dream come true And every night I get down on my knees I get down and I pray for you I pray that you will hear me I pray that you will find a way This is my dream My dream is love This is my dream My dream is love It is my secret song It is my secret song Every night I say a prayer I say a prayer that you will love me And every night I get down on my knees But I don’t see you above me Still I pray that you will rescue me I pray you will be the one I pray to you and you alone I pray that you will save my soul I pray that you will find me I pray that you will make me whole
4.
Strange Days 05:19
Can't make heads or tails of it all Nothing seems quite right People acting mighty peculiar People acting none too bright I walk around in a haze In these strange days These strange days What became of all the nerds Who were gonna save our asses They only good thing they've come up with Is an app to placate the masses For that they get all the praise In these strange days These strange days Most folks are fat, dumb and lazy Don't wanna get anything done Their idea of a good time Is to let someone else have the fun Me I hope it's all just a phase In these strange days These strange days Kids got Starbucks in one hand And a device in the other They walk around like dead-eyed zombies One after another Nothing cuts through their malaise In these strange days These strange days
5.
I am a stranger here I don't belong no more You've made abundantly clear I am someone you deplore There is no place for me You shut me out with a wall Everything that I've known You've smashed it with a wrecking ball There is no way to make our peace If our hatred won't ever cease This is your world I just live here This is your world I just live here I get it, yeah I'll be on my way See you later Have a nice day I don't mean nothing to you I am but a speck of dust You sweep out of your life And treat me with disgust Wish I knew what I did That has made you hate me so much Don't like the cut of my jib Don't like my common touch I guess you just hate the sight of me I must remind you of a life carefree You make all of the rules And I'm obliged to go along And rule number one Says that I just don't belong You live out your dreams But I don't get to live out mine You are at the top While I am in a serious decline Hope you're happy with what you got While I learn to live with my shitty lot
6.
You say it's complicated Like a puzzle with some pieces lost "If you stand back you'll see the picture If you look hard the details are nicely embossed" I guess I don't see it But then again I can be so shallow and blind Guess I'll never know just what to think What goes on inside your complex mind So many things I don't understand Can't you please lend me a hand And I don't get you Never did and never will I don't get you But I'm waiting for you still You got a million excuses To explain away all your various acts Does it really matter what I think When you've got such a handle on all of the facts I want to show sympathy But you make it so incredibly hard There can be no bridge between us When you always put up your guard No I don't know where you've been Could you please clue me in You say I should trust you And you have my best interest at heart Well I won't be taken in By the insincerity that you impart Why do you just what you do Well I can only speculate If you don't hear what you say All of your words will carry no weight Talk to me loud and clear In a voice that I can hear
7.
Went to the doctor, she said I’m screwed She said my health was anything but rude “Your BP has gone through the ceiling” She said it in a voice bereft of real feeling “Take a Beta Blocker, take a diuretic Overall I’d say you look pretty pathetic Come back next week We’ll see what we will see Drink a lot of water Don’t hold in your pee” Just when I thought that my life totally sucked It’s like I ain’t seen nothing My shit is fucked Came down with shingles Unimagined pain Couldn’t sleep for weeks on end ‘Bout drove me insane Next thing I knew I had neuralgia It was like being burned alive And I was no brave soldier I whooped and yelled I hollered and screamed Nothing could be worse than this Or so it seemed Just when I thought that my life totally sucked It’s like I ain’t seen nothing My shit is fucked Went to the dentist Hadn’t been in years He said my teeth were shit ‘Bout brought me down to tears “Gonna hafta pull ‘em all out And replace ‘em all with fakes” He didn’t sugarcoat it Just said, “Dems da breaks” “It’s what you get for poor hygiene Now rinse your mouth out With this here fluorine” Just when I thought that my life totally sucked It’s like I ain’t seen nothing My shit is fucked
8.
Went to the doctor She said I’m screwed She said my health was anything but rude “Your BP has gone through the ceiling” She said it in a voice bereft of real feeling “Take a Beta Blocker, take a diuretic Overall I’d say you look pretty pathetic Come back next week We’ll see what we will see Drink a lot of water Don’t hold in your pee” Just when I thought that my life totally sucked It’s like I ain’t seen nothing My shit is fucked Came down with shingles Unimagined pain Couldn’t sleep for weeks on end ‘Bout drove me insane Next thing I knew I had neuralgia It was like being burned alive And I was no brave soldier I whooped and yelled I hollered and screamed Nothing could be worse than this Or so it seemed Just when I thought that my life totally sucked It’s like I ain’t seen nothing My shit is fucked Went to the dentist Hadn’t been in years He said my teeth were shit ‘Bout brought me down to tears “Gonna hafta pull ‘em all out And replace ‘em all with fakes” He didn’t sugarcoat it Just said, “Dems da breaks” “It’s what you get for poor hygiene Now rinse your mouth out With this here fluorine” Just when I thought that my life totally sucked It’s like I ain’t seen nothing My shit is fucked
9.
You and your little girl Stepped out into the street You didn't look both ways Got knocked right off your feet It was quite a surprise when you both awoke Had no idea that a car was coming And the first thing you spoke was Blame it on the angels What they're up to well we can't see Who's to say what's right or wrong Not me, not me Blame it on the angels I'm just glad that they're here on our side Good thing they're protecting us Or we might've died You live your life this way not taking responsibility Somehow you have escaped the savages and their savagery Whenever you feel depressed Something lifts you off the ground When all is silent You can hear your own sweet sound Oh those crazy angels They got lots to answer for Sometimes in the middle of the night They come a-banging on your door Just the other day you won the lottery And you smiled and got all starry-eyed When I asked you how you felt "Thank the angels," you said, "The angels on my side"
10.
How many days do I have left Don't know for sure but it's not a lot I can't be wasting my time With what little time I got I know I'm being foolish I know I'm being dumb Might as curl up in a ball And suck my thumb What I am seeking it can't be found And I am too old, too old to fuck around The clock is a-ticking And time is just flying on by The things that I thought I knew Gone in the blink of an eye Wanna hang on Wanna hold you with all my might But when I open my eyes I see you've taken flight Got get on with it Before I lose yet another day Got to let you go Much to my dismay Once I had all the time in the world At least that's what I thought I fooled around and fell in love A tempest in a teapot I believed had tomorrow But tomorrow has come and gone And all that I got left Is a measly denouement
11.
Skin 04:33
Wherever I go, there it is It stands me up When I take a whizz It is my friend, it is my enemy What I am, yeah it is me This is the skin The skin I'm in This is the skin The skin I'm in It taste just like cinnamon Skin This skin I'm in It is my shoes when I got no shoes It lets me cry when I got the blues It is the hat The hat that stops the rain It's got my back when I got the pain It ain't never Gonna let me down It will cover me Six feet in the ground It is the coat that I adorn It is the suit from when I was born It feels good when I masturbate I can love it and I can hate
12.
Who am I An ordinary guy Waiting for the end of days The signs are here The signs are there It's no passing phase The future beckons like a twisted finger Come to me, come to me Can't resist it, got no choice What will be will be Blue skies ahead I live in hope Blue skies ahead I need it to cope It's been so overcast Hope that goes away fast What do I do to get through Who can I rely upon Is no one here willing to help Before the great denouement Got no cash, got no goods Mostly bads in my brain Would be swell if I could get some vitamin L Flush the poison down the drain Move to an island, get fat and tan Take a nap in the afternoon, get myself a plan Watch the rain again and again It never stops coming down The willow tree weeps no more Its roots have all but withered and drowned

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How many days do I have left
Don't know for sure but it's not a lot
I can't be wasting my time
With what little time I got

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released December 26, 2023

Cover "Skin" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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