Chris Stamey - Skin lyrics

rate me

I slip out of my skin

That’s how it begins

And drift across the room into you

You look a bit surprised as you realize

Underneath the fluorescent hue

But you quickly let me in

Beofre the light can bend

Before the others realize what we do

I look like I’m asleep

But I’m just incomplete

I watch myself the way that you do

And this is how it feels to be you

Sensation of your skin

The way your ankles bend

The way you hear a sigh across the room

The taste inside your mouth

As you breathe in and out

Your eyes the sunlight scattering the gloom

And this is how it feels to be you

This is how it feels to be you

Our fingers move like mice

We see everything twice

We see it once as me and once as you

And where we overlap as we slowly adapt

Is hard to ascertain or review

Now I’m back inside myself

And you are someone else

And everything’s the same and yet brand new

If we had only known

We were not skin and bone

But more like vapor without residue

And this is how it feels to be you

This is how it feels to be you.