Skin chords by Dick Siegel

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Verse 1
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Ba da dum dum dum
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They say that long ago we all come
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crawling from the ocean
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They say that even now we're
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mostly of the salty sea
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Well, I   believe it's true, don't you,
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and if it's true, I got a notion
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To cel ebrate the outer limits
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of you and   me
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They say that long ago all was
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space and timelessness
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They say that up ahead,
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more space and timelessness to  come
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Well, I   believe it's true, don't you?
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And if it's true,
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I wonder what the difference is
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In the language that you pray in or the
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place you say that you come from
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Without a skin we just feel
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hurt all the time
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Everything dragging
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be       hind us
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Pressed down by the sunlight in the air
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Oh, thank
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God for      skin
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Keeps our hearts warm
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Safe from the weather
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Skin keeps us apart
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And so close together
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The sky seems blue
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and endless up to heaven
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My feet are firmly upon the ground
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And the ground it is ground
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less like heaven
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Our hands are handfuls
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of tiny little worlds
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spinning round they say the goodness of
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God is more than we
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can ever measure
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they say that satan's only pleasure
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is with cruelty and pain
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well i   believe it's true don't you that
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every heart contains   a treasure
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And every heart's its own heart,
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but all the treasure is the same
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Skin, without a skin we
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just feel hurt
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Everything dragging
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behind us
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We're pressed down by the
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sunlight and the air
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Well, thank
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God for      skin
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Keeps   our hearts warm
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Safe from the weather  skin
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Keeps us apart and so close
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together
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It's you