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Shed Some Skin

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SHED SOME SKIN - Slow Gherkin
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INTRO:
B F# Abm Ebm E B F# F#

VERSE: 
B                     F#
It's Christmas Day in gay Paris
Abm            Ebm
Not so gay for Galen Z.
E                 B
Sixteen hours in a sweaty kitchen
F#       
For money that makes minimum wage look good.

B          F#
6 a.m. on the subway
Abm                   Ebm
Stop station, through the doorway
E                           B
Crowds of people standing, yelling, screaming
F#
"What's going on? I must be dreaming."

CHORUS: 
Abm
And the city forgets
Ebm
They didn't even perceive
Abm
And the trains keep blowing up
C#5        E
week after week.

REPEAT INTRO

VERSE: 
B                  F#
Franzel's traveled wide and far
Abm           Ebm
Back from the U.S.S.R.
E                      B
Went there to pursue a lifelong calling
F#
You found only numb toes and helpless longing.

B                  F#
Now you're back at home today
Abm             Ebm
Back in the old USA.
E                         B
Scoop up handfuls of your native dust 
F#
And cross the country in a Greyhound bus.

CHORUS:
Abm 
Another failed attempt
Ebm
It's no use trying to pretend
Abm
Now you're right back 
C#5          E
where you started again.

REPEAT INTRO

BRIDGE: 

B G

Abm   B                F# 
I saw what's wrong but I didn't see how
Abm    E 
I saw, I saw
B                  F#
We're all grown up now.

VERSE:
B                F#
Today's your twentieth birthday
Abm                Ebm
Alone you walk the banks of Maine
E                             B
As time runs out to write the second verse of
F#         
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.

B                 F#
While you're gone we'll be here still
Abm               Ebm
Just beyond those distant hills
E                          B
Could be that you got the upper hand
F#
When you left this rustic never-never land.

CHORUS:
Abm
And my breathing constricts
Ebm
I feel the walls closing in
Abm
Could it be that finally we're all
C#5           E
Shedding some skin.

REPEAT INTRO

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