Bill Mallonee - Brand New Skin (for Mary Alice Newman) lyrics

Mother I remember you All ringed with roses and laurel Thanks for teaching me those words I couldn't save you from your sorrow Oh please close your eyes and wait to begin You'll wake up in your brand new skin Show me out some different way Slide through that tomorrow If it vanishes like haze Your old life it's just borrowed Oh to close your eyes and wait to begin You'll wake up in your brand new skin Now whatever falls away Whatever is dross Whatever fills the grave Whatever gets lost Hold it all up to the light When it's all wrecked and scarred All that chrome touch-up paint well it won't take you far