My Skin

I have numbers to call if I feel down
I get visits from friends from out of town
I could even throw a party
I’d invite everyone I know
I’d laugh extra loud but I
Don’t know who’ll listen when everyone has gone home
The loneliest I’ve ever been
Is right here inside of this skin
Wherever I go
It seems to follow
From everywhere else I’ve been
I could run away
But I can’t escape my skin
But I look happy in pictures my family takes
And I stay busy so I don’t have time to think
I could even go to a party
Full of kids I really wanna know
I’d laugh extra loud but while
They’re laughing with me
I still think I’m laughing alone
The loneliest I’ve ever been
Is right here inside of this skin
Wherever I go
It seems to follow
From everywhere else I’ve been
I could run away
But I can’t escape my skin
I have a hand to hold
Someone to call my own
But I can’t say that he understands
But I feel safe at night
When he is by my side
The sun always sheds light
Into my sleeping eyes
And I can see through me
I can see through me
The loneliest I’ve ever been
Is right here inside of this skin