Skinny Lou

Skinny Lou you used to be that I couldn't see you sideways

Skinny Lou many times I wish I could be like you

Turn away from the bay in my own ways

Just like you do Skinny Lou

There's a pull I can feel like gravity, grabbing me sideways

I bought a railway station ticket to take me out of this town

Leave me somewhere standing with the rain on my face again and again

Oh, is it true you used to run with constellations

And the rock-a-billy boys will never see

Your artistry of taking your whole world in without taking it all on

Because you know it will be your skinny shoulder it rests upon

Skinny Lou I've a mind to sew a tapestry this time

For it feels like gold in the pocket of a coat

It would be easy to forget you ever had

To have it we do, me and you

Oh, is it true you used to run with constellations

And the rock-a-billy boys will never see

Your artistry of taking taking your whole world in without taking it all on

For you know it will be your skinny shoulder it rests upon

Yes you know it will be your skinny shoulders it rests upon

Oh you know it will be your skinny shoulders it rests upon