歌曲名 This Old Skin (Album Version) 歌手名 The Beautiful South

作词：Bobby Cristiansand+Barry Klein

作曲：Bobby Cristiansand+Barry Klein

It was '96 in south carolina

Thats the place and

not the goddam year

I was sittin on the

porch out at bobbys place

Just tuggin on a lukewarm beer

There i was peepin like

that old sidewinder

Just an inch or

so above the mud

The first to find out

that its rainin

Is the last to find

out its a flood

It was paradise valley nevada

Not far from where

the west was won

I am the only black face

in the whole damn place

Just a raisin

in the blazing sun

Here i am like that

old sidewinder

Just wishin that her

eggs aint hatched

And the chain i wear

has 'em wishin for

The day when it came

with a ball attached

So im gonna move right

outta this town

When this old skin

stops weighin me down

This old skin

He was sittin in the

very same spot

That otis sat to watch

the dock of the bay

In the very same spot

the ships rolled in

Now there's nothing

but the mud and the clay

Im gonna move right

outta this town

This old skin is

weighing me down

This old skin

Outside atlanta when

the sunshine state

Has just upped itself

another degree

I am the very last orange

of the whole years crop

Hangin dearly to

the branch of the tree

And the wind in the

spring couldn't do anything

So im burnin in

the sun of the south

That old sidewinder

in the dust below

Im just waiting till

it opens its mouth

So im gonna move right

outta this town

This old skin finally

touches the ground

This old skin

He was sittin

in the very same spot

That otis sat to watch

the dock of the bay

The very same spot

the ships rolled in

Now there's nothing

but the mud and the clay

Now im gonna move right

outta this town

This old skin finally

touches the ground

This old skin

This old skin

This old skin

This old skin