Skin and Bone Lyrics

You think for some reason the pain passed me by

You think that as a child I never learnt to cry

You think that somehow I was immune to what they said

That I could never feel, could never understand

Could never know your pain

You stand there shaking your fist at me

And explain all the things that I 'forgot' to see

You wave your hands up at the sky

And say "Why do I even bother? You can't sympathise.

You're so far away from me!"

Remember the child that was lost in the streets

Remember the garden alone as he weeps

I've felt rejection, I know the pain of fear

I've known what it is to hunger, I've shed both blood and tears

You ask me about all the poverty and famine and war

It didn't slip my mind, with all my innocence, I felt it all the more

But still you're shaking your fist at me and exclaim

"This isn't how it's meant to be"

You wave your hands up at the sky

And say "Why did you even bother? I'm not satisfied!

You're so far away from me!"

Broken and beaten for speaking the truth

Born to a nation despised since its youth

Raised working class in a foreign land

The same tools for life that they used to pierce my hands

You ask me about all your suffering injustice and pain

I remind you of the cross, remind you of the cost

When my Father turned away

I was more of a stranger in this world than you'll ever be

But I put on skin and bone, I did it all for you, to be close to me

I put on skin and bone, I did it all for you, to be close to me

I put on skin and bone, I did it all for you, to be close to me