Skin-Chris Stamey

I slip out of my skin That's how it begins And drift across the room into you You look a bit surprised As you realize Underneath the fluorescent hue But you quickly let me in Before the light can bend Before the others realize what we do I look like I'm asleep But I'm just incomplete I watch myself the way that you do And this is how it feels to be you Sensation of your skin The way you ankles bend The way you hear a sigh across the room The taste inside your mouth As you breathe in and out Your eyes the sunlight scattering the gloom And this is how it feels to be you This is how it feels to be you Our fingers move like mice We see everything twice We see it once as me and once as you And where we overlap As we slowly adapt Is hard to ascertain or review Now I'm back inside myself And you are someone else And everything's the same and yet brand new If we had only known We were not skin and bone But more like vapor without residue And this is how it feels to be you This is how it feels to be you This is how it feels to be you... This is how it feels to be you