Song Description
This is a song about the row apartments I worked in.
| Song Length |
4:10 |
Genre |
Folk - Country |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Tense, Troubled |
Subject |
Violence, Poverty |
| Similar Artists |
Bob Dylan |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
THICKER SKIN
DARYLE AND JUNE
ARE AT IT AGAIN
GUESS IT?S TIME TO TURN UP
THE TV
WE JUST SAY HI
WHEN WE PASS IN THE HALL
BUT I FEEL LIKE I KNOW THEM
WHEN THEY DRINK LIKE
THAT
THEY DON?T SEEM TO CARE
WHAT THEY SAY TO EACH OTHER
AT ALL
OH MY GOD THE THINGS I HEAR
THROUGH THESE WALLS
*COUNT DOWN YOUR ROSARY
ABOLISH MY SINS
FORGIVE AND DELIVER ME
WITH A THICKER SKIN
OLD MAN JOHNSON?S CAT RAN AWAY
NOW EVERY NIGHT IT?S THE SAME
HE STANDS ON THE STAIRS
WITH A FLASHLIGHT
CALLING KITTY KITTY KITTY
AND HE KEEPS ME AWAKE
BUT I DON?T MIND THAT
HE?S OUT THERE IN THE COLD
I DON?T HAVE THE HEART
TO TELL HIM
THAT CAT WAS GETTIN OLD
*COUNT DOWN YOUR ROSARY
ABOLISH MY SINS
FORGIVE AND DELIVER ME
WITH A THICKER SKIN
COPS CAME BY THE OTHER NIGHT
YOU COULD HEAR THEM
ALL DOWN THE HALL
ONE MINUTE SOME KID
WAS ON THE STEP
AND THEN HE WAS GONE
HIS MOMMA CRIED OH MY GOD
HE?S JUST SIX YEARS OLD
LITTLE GUY DIDN?T HAVE A SWEATER ON
TONIGHT?S GONNA GET REAL COLD
*COUNT DOWN YOUR ROSARY
ABOLISH MY SINS
FORGIVE AND DELIVER ME
WITH A THICKER SKIN
*COUNT DOWN YOUR ROSARY
ABOLISH MY SINS
FORGIVE AND DELIVER ME
WITH A THICKER SKIN
MURRAY GABLE