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The Skin Of My Teeth

from The Skin Of My Teeth by Happy Tooth

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I tried to give it back, but I'm so sick of that.
And when you live to act, there's only one way left to skin a cat...
Thin the fat around my skeletal structure, an elegant rupture,
until it's all punctured, it feels like there's no skin left.
And the truth is pretty itchy if it's been stretched.
Big breath, now exhale and embrace the scalpel.
Words printed on skin are a mouthful, but the meaning is doubtful.
Remove all my old skin, make this the new me.
Bruise what's been stolen then age it with beauty.
Take what you do see, and add in some new meanings.
A pictures worth a thousand words so notebooks are museums.
A new freedom mixed in with melatonin.
Everyone's sleeping unaware that their shell is broken.
All my thoughts are skinless. Not caught up in pigment.
It must be big business that brought on this sickness.
When the cyst pops, I'll blame it's flop
on the wires that criss-crossed.
After lift off, the skins soft and not thick rock.
This clock just says I'm overdone.
If it's wrong it won't take long
to cut out my broken tongue.
Jesus Christ it's all these sleepless nights.
What do I need to write to finally see the light.
It's seeming tight, this skin that isn't mine.
We're intertwined in a line to wait until the symptoms die.
The skin we're in is made to deteriorate.
We fake inferior shape and hate the mirror we face.
So expose skin until it's cold and frozen.
Don't make your bones bend,
you're an open ocean.
It's unusual and beautiful,
the way that we're drowning.
Trading locked doors for house keys.
I wish this song wasn't about me.
I wish this song wasn't about me.

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from The Skin Of My Teeth, released May 12, 2015

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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