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On Your Skin

from Paper Bones by Anders Cahill

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[Verse 1]

Hold on to the wreckage of
Your precious life
The wind still whispers
On your skin

Take a breath
Take whatever's left
All your hidden gifts
Carry them across the bridge

[Chorus 1]

The prophets predictions
Our false superstitions
Throw them all away
There’s just tonight

[Verse 2]

Walk with me
Beneath the evergreens
In your bare feet
Clutch the needles with your toes

Drop your eyes and
Bend your knees
So you can see
Every single fallen hope

[Chorus 2]

She taught me the verses
The blessings and curses
I’d trade them all away
For one more night

[Verse 3]

Give me something to believe
I cried to the sunrise
I’m holding hope for a remedy

Give me space just to breathe
I cried to the sunrise
Before it’s time for her leave

[Bridge]

The sun on her shoulders
We climbed up the boulders
The waves on the ocean
Crashed over and over

The wind was lifting up her hair
She smiled when she caught me staring
I closed my coat it's getting cold
She took my hand and took me home

Inside she was starving
Her lungs like a coal mine
I felt her ribs beneath her skin
Her heart was beating paper thin

In fall we were closest
We drank in the cold air
But she left in the nighttime
Her life in a folder

I stood at the window
Her footsteps in the snow
Her breath makes me shiver
Will she ever let me go?

[Verse 4/Outro]

Hold on the wreckage of
Your precious life
The wind still whispers
On your skin

credits

from Paper Bones, released January 22, 2019
- written by Anders Cahill
- produced, arranged and performed by John Nolan and Anders Cahill
- background vocals: Erica Magro Cahill
- violin: Christian Kaufman
- trumpet: Sean Elligers

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