This Old Skin (Album Version)

This Old Skin (Album Version) - The Beautiful South

It was '96 in south carolina

Thats the place and not the goddam year

I was sittin on the porch out at bobbys place

Just tuggin on a lukewarm beer

There i was peepin like that old sidewinder

Just an inch or so above the mud

The first to find out that its rainin

Is the last to find out its a flood

It was paradise valley nevada

Not far from where the west was won

I am the only black face in the whole damn place

Just a raisin in the blazing sun

Here i am like that old sidewinder

Just wishin that her eggs ain't hatched

And the chain i wear has 'em wishin for

The day when it came with a ball attached

So i'm gonna move right outta this town

When this old skin stops weighin me down

This old skin

He was sittin in the very same spot

That otis sat to watch the dock of the bay

In the very same spot the ships rolled in

Now there's nothing but the mud and the clay

I'm gonna move right outta this town

This old skin is weighing me down

This old skin

Outside atlanta when the sunshine state

Has just upped itself another degree

I am the very last orange of the whole years crop

Hangin dearly to the branch of the tree

And the wind in the spring couldn't do anything

So i'm burnin in the sun of the south

That old sidewinder in the dust below

I'm just waiting till it opens its mouth

So i'm gonna move right outta this town

This old skin finally touches the ground

This old skin

He was sittin in the very same spot

That otis sat to watch the dock of the bay

The very same spot the ships rolled in

Now there's nothing but the mud and the clay

Now i'm gonna move right outta this town

This old skin finally touches the ground

This old skin

This old skin

This old skin

This old skin