Perfect Skin (BBC In Concert Hammersmith Palais 13/12/1984)-LloydCole

[ti:Perfect Skin (BBC In Concert Hammersmith Palais 13/12/1984)] [ar:Lloyd Cole And The Commotions----(replace by 16911)] [al:Live At The BBC Vol 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Perfect Skin (BBC In Concert Hammersmith Palais 13/12/1984) - LloydCole [00:07.85]I choose my friends only far too well [00:10.96]And I'm up on the pavement [00:12.86]And they're all down in the cellar [00:14.79]With their government grants and my I Q [00:18.42]They brought me down to size academia blues [00:23.78] [00:29.23]Louise is a girl I know her well [00:32.69]She's up on the pavement [00:34.60]Yeah she's a weathergirl [00:36.19]And I'm staying up here so I may be undone [00:39.85]She's inappropriate but then she's much more fun [00:43.51]And when she smiles my way [00:49.26]My eyes go out in vain [00:53.28]She's got perfect skin [00:57.47] [00:58.27]Shame on you you've got no sense of grace [01:01.49]Shame on me ah just in case [01:05.20]I might come to a conclusion [01:06.91]Other than that which is absolutely necessary [01:10.08] [01:11.32]And that's perfect skin [01:12.79] [01:26.85]Louise is the girl with the perfect skin [01:30.56]She says turn on the light otherwise it can't be seen [01:33.85]She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin [01:37.97]And she's sexually enlightened by cosmopolitan [01:42.06] [01:43.51]And when she smiles my way [01:45.13] [01:46.81]My eyes go out in vain [01:49.21] [01:50.74]For her perfect skin [01:52.91] [01:54.30]Yeah that's perfect skin [01:55.84] [02:16.87]She takes me down into the basement to look at her slides [02:21.24]Of her family life pretty weird at times [02:24.01]At the age of ten she looked like Greta Garbo [02:27.73]And I loved her then but how was she to know that [02:32.25] [02:33.71]When she smiles my way [02:36.01] [02:37.29]My eyes go out in vain [02:39.80] [02:40.97]She's got perfect skin [02:42.52] [02:45.50]Up eight flights of stairs to a basement flat [02:49.05]Pretty confused huh being shipped around like that [02:52.60]Seems we climbed so high now we're down so low [02:56.07]Strikes me the moral of this song must be there never has been one