Perfect Skin (Saturday Live - BBC Radio 1 Session 26/05/84)-LloydCole

[ti:Perfect Skin (Saturday Live - BBC Radio 1 Session 26/05/84)] [ar:Lloyd Cole And The Commotions----(replace by 16911)] [al:Live At The BBC Vol 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Perfect Skin (Saturday Live - BBC Radio 1 Session 26/05/84) - LloydCole [00:09.92]I choose my friends only far too well [00:12.11]And I'm up on the pavement [00:14.42]And they're all down in the cellar [00:16.77]With their government grants and my I Q [00:19.67]They brought me down to size academia blues [00:25.18] [00:30.47]Louise is a girl I know her well [00:33.78]She's up on the pavement [00:35.39]Yeah she's a weathergirl [00:37.19]And I'm staying up here so I may be undone [00:40.71]She's inappropriate but then she's much more fun [00:44.36]And when she smiles my way [00:49.82]My eyes go out in vain [00:51.87] [00:53.72]She's got perfect skin [00:55.26] [00:58.71]Shame on you you've got no sense of grace [01:01.58]Shame on me ah just in case [01:04.94]I might come to a conclusion [01:06.87]Other than that which is absolutely necessary [01:09.60] [01:11.09]And that's perfect skin [01:13.33] [01:26.51]Louise is the girl with the perfect skin [01:29.71]She says turn on the light otherwise it can't be seen [01:33.08]She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin [01:37.29]And she's sexually enlightened by cosmopolitan [01:42.61]And when she smiles my way [01:44.75] [01:45.71]My eyes go out in vain [01:47.79] [01:49.67]For her perfect skin [01:51.76] [01:53.12]Yeah that's perfect skin [01:54.49] [02:15.29]She takes me down into the basement to look at her slides [02:18.03]Of her family life pretty weird at times [02:22.06]At the age of ten she looked like Greta Garbo [02:25.56]And I loved her then but how was she to know that [02:30.20] [02:31.36]When she smiles my way [02:33.48] [02:34.71]My eyes go out in vain [02:36.69] [02:38.59]She's got perfect skin [02:40.01] [02:42.94]Up eight flights of stairs to a basement flat [02:46.41]Pretty confused huh being shipped around like that [02:50.03]Seems we climbed so high now we're down so low [02:53.21]Strikes me the moral of this song must be there never has been one