TJR: Music

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From the CD Mixed Emotions:
This is a song about working for a living. My friend Eddie started to play the main guitar riff and I started to skat sing along to it. The title "Skin and Bones" came out of that initial improvisational jam. I knew we had the beginning of a good song but we had no recorder with us and I didn't want to forget it. So I pulled out the cell phone and called my home # and recorded it on my answering machine. Kathy and I finished up the lyrics and Billy Ray came up with bridge.

I WOKE UP LATE ONE MORNING
TO THE SOUND OF MY GIRL SNORING
THE TELEPHONE WAS RINGING

A MAN FROM THE PHONE COMPANY
WAS ON THE LINE SCREAMING AT ME
YOU GOT A CHECK FOR ME

I TOLD HIM I WAS REALLY LATE I HAD TO GO
I MAKE MY LIVIN? OFF MY SKIN AND BONES
I SAID THAT I WOULD GET RIGHT BACK TO HIM
I?D PLACE A CALL ON MY CELLULAR PHONE

I PUT THE PHONE DOWN
TURNED AROUND AND SCRATCHED MY HEAD AND FROWNED
THOUGHT WHAT BECOMES OF ME

I POURED SOME BREAKFAST
PONDERED MY PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
OVER A CUP OF TEA


I WONDERED WHY WE WERE ALL SO ALONE
THERE?S SO MANY OUT THERE JUST LIKE ME
IF I COULD TELL THEM I WOULD ASK THEM UP TO MY PLACE
AND HAVE A BIG PARTY (and I would tell them)

Chorus
IF THE CLOTHES YOU?RE WEARING
HAVE A LITTLE TROUBLE COMING OFF
AND THE SHOES YOU HAVE ON
DO NOT MATCH BUT BABE IT?S ALL YOU?VE GOT
IF THE LIFE YOUR CHOOSIN?
GIVES YOUR HEART A LITTLE BRUSIN?
LIVIN? OFF YOUR SKIN AND BONES

TURNED ON THE TV AND A MAN PREACHING AT ME
SAID HE?D SET MY SOUL FREE
I CHANGED THE CHANNEL RON POPEIL WAS TRYING TO HUSTLE
TO ME A LIFE OF EASE

HE SAID THAT FOR $19.95 PLUS TAX
HE WOULD SET MY SOUL FREE
SAID THAT HE WOULD SOLVE ALL MY PROBLEMS FOR ME
AND SHIP IT COD (and I thought)
Repeat Chorus

I FINISHED BREAKFAST - AND I PLOPPED DOWN ON THE MATTRESS
THOUGHT WHAT BECOMES OF ME
MY GIRLFRIEND WOKE UP - AND SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS FED UP
WITH ALL MY MEANDERINGS

SHE SAID THAT SHE WAS REALLY LATE SHE HAD TO GO
TO MAKE HER LIVIN OFF HER SKIN AND BONES
SHE SAID THAT SHE WOULD GET RIGHT BACK TO ME
BUT IN THAT MOMENT I KNEW SHE WAS GONE (and I thought)

chorus
IF THE CLOTHES YOU?RE WEARING
HAVE A LITTLE TROUBLE COMING OFF
THE SHOES YOU HAVE ON DO NOT MATCH
BUT BABE IT?S ALL YOU?VE GOT
IF THE LIFE YOUR CHOOSIN?
GIVES YOUR HEART A LITTLE BRUSIN?
LIVIN? OFF YOUR SKIN AND BONES

2nd chorus
IF THE BILLS YOU?RE PAYING
REALLY HAVE NO TROUBLE PILIN? UP
AND THE GIRL YOU?RE DATING
DOESN?T UNDERSTAND YOUR RUN OF LUCK
IF THE LIFE YOUR CHOOSIN?
GIVES YOUR HEART A LITTLE BRUSIN?
LIVIN? OFF YOUR SKIN AND BONES


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