The Boy Who Shed His Skin

Words, J. Stephen Smith
Music, J. Stephen Smith, Jesse Sprinkle

You know it’s just a bloody nuisance
Said the boy who shed his skin
Another lessen to be learned
You know we all die in the end

So you’d better just get on, then
Said a man just half my size
No time to set and cry about it
No place for you to run and hide

Cut these ties that hold me down
That’s the only way to begin
You can drop my weary bones in the ground
Said the boy who shed his skin

Well, you know it’s been quite painful
Year to year and week to week
He bruises with the slightest touch
Even a kiss a upon the cheek

I’ve seen him with the Lords and ladies
They can’t resist his boyish charm
And even with his loving mother
As she rocked him in her arms

Cut these ties that hold me down
That’s the only way to begin
You can drop my weary bones in the ground
Said the boy who shed his skin

Soon I’ll be flying home
So far from all the pain that I have known
Soon I’ll be flying home
And now it’s clear to me the time has come to go

Cut these ties that hold me down
That’s the only way to begin
You can drop my weary bones in the ground
Said the boy who shed his skin

Soon I’ll be flying home
So far from all the pain that I have known
Soon I’ll be flying home
And now it’s clear to me the time has come to go

Soon I’ll be flying home Said the boy who shed his skin
Soon I’ll be flying home Said the boy who shed his skin
Soon I’ll be flying home Said the boy who shed his skin

Copyright 2007 J. Stephen Smith, Jesse Sprinkle