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BRAND NEW SKIN

from Pauper Dreams by Bill Mallonee

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Mother, I remember you all ringed with roses and laurel thanks for teaching me those words, but I couldn’t save you from your sorrow

oh, please close your eyes...and wait to begin
you’ll wake up...in your brand new skin

Show me out some different way...to slide through that tomorrow
if it vanishes like haze...your old life it’s just borrowed

oh, to close your eyes...and wait to begin you’ll wake up...in your brand new skin

now whatever falls away
and whatever is dross
whatever fills the grave
...and whatever gets lost

If I hold it all up to the light and it’s all wrecked and scarred
All that chrome and touch-up paint? Well, it won’t take you far

oh, please close your eyes...and wait to begin
you’ll wake up...in your brand new skin

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from Pauper Dreams, released August 18, 2013

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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