The Skin of Another World

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Slow Instrumental Intro

Riff

Verse 1

The streetlights came on at the wrong time of day

The shadows fell west when the sun went away

Your hand in my hand, the cold coming in

Like October remembers what summer has been

Riff

Pre-Chorus

The money is copper, but the face isn't right

A soul nobody knows, nobody mourned

The geese are still flying - but where do they go

When the south doesn't end and the north was never born?

Chorus

We are walking the skin of another world

Where the apples are red but the seeds are wrong

Where the autumn comes early and never leaves

And the radio plays someone else's song

Instrumental Interlude

Verse 2

We found a magazine under a counter of glass

A bird on the cover - too many wings, too much eye

The headline was blurred but the feeling was clear:

Something was wonderful once, and then died

Riff

Pre-Chorus

The children's shoes lined up beside a locked school door

The chalk on the sidewalk, a game no one finished

What were they waiting for?

Chorus

We are walking the skin of another world

Where the apples are red but the seeds are wrong

Where the autumn comes early and never leaves

And the radio plays someone else's song

Instrumental Interlude - minor key, dual guitar

Bridge

I keep thinking we'll find a note

A name, a reason

Bridge

I keep thinking we'll find a note

A name, a reason given

I keep thinking the smoke on the hill is just somebody living

But the smoke doesn't move

And the hill doesn't answer

And the tower on the skyline is wrong

It was built by a mind that loved beauty and ruin

That loved it enough to let everything fall

Verse 3

We sleep in a house where the beds are still warm

Where the dishes are drying and the mail hasn't come

Where someone has planted a garden of flowers

That bloom in a color that doesn't have a name

Riff

Pre-Chorus

The photograph nailed to the wall of the hallway -

A family, a coastline, a thing with six legs

That watches us back with a patience like winter

Like it knows we are guests

Chorus

We are walking the skin of another world

Our steps slower, heavier...

The apples are red, but the seeds are wrong...

The autumn came early and stayed...

And the radio plays...

And the radio plays...

Someone else's song...

Outro - Slower

The tower stood east of a sun going nowhere

The leaves came down red as they always have done

You said: maybe the world just forgot how to end here

I said: maybe for us... It's already begun

End