Skin Lyrics

We're breaking ground again

Feel your skin

Hear the floorboards creaking

Take it in

Underneath our feet

The earth is paper thin

Boy

The trees are echoing

Listen to me

You're delicate and savage and supreme

A war within a war

A dream within a dream

Boy

Every street in every city

Every railroad, every track

Can only take you back

Like a chorus line

That's welling up inside

We are the reckoning

Taste and see

Penniless and pure and incomplete

We light another fire

To match the flame we need

Boy

Stretch out your arms as wide you can

And grab my hand

Believe that some time soon

This night will end

You won't believe your eyes

Can take a thing so bright

Boy

And holy holy is this story

Every tree and every branch

And every second chance

Every second try to get it right this time

And so we start again

From skin to seed

Sunlight peeking through the crown of leaves

This is not the end

It's just another seam

Boy

Boy