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Lose This Skin Lyrics
Come with me. I won't hide
We're going on a ride
We meet each day, use time to see
While we're young and almost free
I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in
Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in
Do not turn or hate to see
All the things you think we've got
Do not turn or hate to see
What happened to the wife of Lot
We're alone or so they say
We're not on our own in that way
When we're alone it's real tough going
We can take a part in someone else's play
Come with me, I thought he said
But that's not him anymore, he's dead
What's it like to be so free
So free it looks like lost to me
We're going on a ride
We meet each day, use time to see
While we're young and almost free
Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in
All the things you think we've got
Do not turn or hate to see
What happened to the wife of Lot
We're not on our own in that way
When we're alone it's real tough going
We can take a part in someone else's play
But that's not him anymore, he's dead
What's it like to be so free
So free it looks like lost to me
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Molting process in snakes. Singer is describing transformation and growth.
When I'm really grooving to this one, I'm thinking of the "skin" as whatever current set of responsibilities is wearing me down.
We have a winner!!! you hit it on the head. thank you.
We have a winner!!! you hit it on the head. thank you.
I'm pretty sure it should be "turn our head" not "turn or hate", especially because of the reference to Lot's wife, who famously turned back to look.
The song is sung by a WOMAN…..can’t remember her name..Ellen Folly ?? The song is about losing virginity but loosing a skin seems to me could be loosing innocence or loosing anything that is holding one back.
@rob1072034, is it not written by Tymon Dog? I can find nothing to suggest otherwise
@rob1072034, is it not written by Tymon Dog? I can find nothing to suggest otherwise
it is about someone who is resticted from enjoying life due to skin colour. The hints are Young and almost free", " When we're alone it's real tough going We can take a part in someone else's play"
Its about Micheal Jackson and his race change operation :-)
how can this song be about Michael Jackson's race change op when that happened in the mid 80's, and LTS was on the 1980 album Sandinista????!!!!!!!
how can this song be about Michael Jackson's race change op when that happened in the mid 80's, and LTS was on the 1980 album Sandinista????!!!!!!!
who the hell is singing in this song?
@ThE_VANDAL Tymon Dogg, longtime friend of Joe Strummer of The Clash, also fiddle player on this song. And it's about heroin addiction. I knew that when I first heard it at 13 yrs old, before I was even smoking marijuana regularly. Now at 53 yrs old and having struggled with a heroin addiction off and on for the better part of the last 25 yrs or so, it's even more obvious to me. Lose this skin= heroin addicts struggling. Easy enough.
@ThE_VANDAL Tymon Dogg, longtime friend of Joe Strummer of The Clash, also fiddle player on this song. And it's about heroin addiction. I knew that when I first heard it at 13 yrs old, before I was even smoking marijuana regularly. Now at 53 yrs old and having struggled with a heroin addiction off and on for the better part of the last 25 yrs or so, it's even more obvious to me. Lose this skin= heroin addicts struggling. Easy enough.
That would be Tymon Dogg.
circumscsion????
Isn't it just about growing up and being independent?
Get the damn lyric right: “Turn a head to see”...ought to be obvious
Weird, beautiful song. Stands out from other Clash songs mainly due to Tymon’s strange singing, but also because of the darker lyrics.
“Come with me, I thought he said, But that’s not him anymore, he’s dead” Is likely a reference to Sid Vicious’ death. Basing this on previous Clash references to Sid: 1) I fought the law (live) - “killed my girl and feel so bad” 2) Hateful (song is about drug addiction) - “this year I’ve lost some friends”
This song has a recurring theme of someone wanting to be somewhere they cannot physically be. 1) Lot’s wife looking back on their hometown which is being destroyed/she dies. 2) Can’t “come with me” because “he’s dead” now.
So I’ve always interpreted it as the singer longing to “go away on a ride” to reach outside of their mortal body, literally losing this skin. But he considers others who have already “lost this skin”: Lot’s wife, his friend, etc and comes to conclusion that it’s “so free it looks like lost to me.”
@StayFree95 IFTL is a cover of Bobby Fuller Four in the 60s.
@StayFree95 IFTL is a cover of Bobby Fuller Four in the 60s.
@sangsue I know the Clash didn't write IFTL. The original song lyrics are "lost my girl and I feel so bad, guess my race is run." But on the live album From Here to Eternity, Joe sings "Killed my girl and feel so bad."
@sangsue I know the Clash didn't write IFTL. The original song lyrics are "lost my girl and I feel so bad, guess my race is run." But on the live album From Here to Eternity, Joe sings "Killed my girl and feel so bad."
In my comment I was pointing out that this lyric, along with some lines in Hateful: "this year I've lost some friends," and in Lose This Skin: "that's not him anymore, he's dead," may be about Sid Vicious.
In my comment I was pointing out that this lyric, along with some lines in Hateful: "this year I've lost some friends," and in Lose This Skin: "that's not him anymore, he's dead," may be about Sid Vicious.
Is this song about coming out as a homosexual?