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Brand New Skin (for Mary Alice Newman)
Year: 2008 | Run Time: 3:59
Written by Bill Mallonee

mother i remember you
all ringed with roses and laurel
thanks for teaching me those words
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? well, it's just borrowed
oh to close your eyes and wait to begin
you'll wake up in your brand new skin
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now whatever falls away...and whatever is dross
whatever fills the grave...and whatever gets lost

hold it all up to the light
when it's all wrecked and scarred
all that chrome touch-up paint
well it won't take you far

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from FOOTNOTES FOR DEPARTURE​/​WPA 19 (WPA Compilation volume 2) by Bill Mallonee & Muriah Rose 2016, released January 28, 2016
Bill Mallonee: guitars, vocals, drums.

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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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