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about
This song is the most difficult for me to play "live" as it is such an important song for me personally. Save My Skin is a song to myself, which I wrote in the middle of the most difficult year of my life. After two operations and several months of pain and testing I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in early 2014. Part of my Crohn's is that I suffer from Psoriasis between my legs. This meant that I could not walk properly without excruciating pain as I lost 5 layers of skin around my backside and had fissures like razor blades between my legs. It was a very severe case and I had to walk with a stick for 5 months and couldn't walk to the end of my short street. This song was written to help me cope with that. It REALLY helped.
lyrics
Save My Skin
I'm trying to grow a brand new skin,
It's hard because its worn so thin,
I'm trying to paint across the cracks,
But it simply doesn't want to grow back...
But it's out of my hands for now...
And it's always bringing me down...
If I'm too far stretched from within...
Inner conflict, out for the win…
I've got to save my skin.
I'm crying to sleep on better days,
I'm hanging on the doctors’ say,
My knees are resting on my chest,
Perennially, more or less...
But it's out of my hands for now...
And it's always bringing me down...
If I'm too far stretched from within...
Inner conflict, out for the win…
I've got to save my skin.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Time to take a minute here,
(Is there) somewhere that you'd rather be?
Peeling back a different layer,
(Can you) stick around the twist in life?
Grounded by the span of my feet,
Am I meeting with my own deadline?
I've not to let my heart get beat...
But it's out of my hands for now...
And it's always bringing me down...
If I'm too far stretched from within...
Inner conflict, out for the win…
I've got to save my skin...
I've got to save my skin...
I've got to save my skin...
I've got to save my skin...
But it's out of my hands for now...
credits
from Are You Sitting Comfortably?,
released January 24, 2015
Written and recorded by Ryan Mitchell-Smith 2014.
Organ: Ross Moore
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