Perfect Skin (Album Version)-Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

[ti:Perfect Skin (Album Version)] [ar:LloydCole] [al:Lloyd Cole And The Commotions 1984-1989] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Perfect Skin (Album Version) - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions [00:07.81]I choose my friends only far too well [00:11.02]And I'm up on the pavement [00:12.76]And they're all down in the cellar [00:14.92]With their government grants and my I Q [00:18.33]They brought me down to size academia blues [00:21.70] [00:29.47]Louise is a girl I know her well [00:33.07]She's up on the pavement [00:34.29] [00:34.82]Yeah she's a weathergirl [00:36.01] [00:36.60]And I'm staying up here so I may be undone [00:40.35]She's inappropriate but then she's much more fun [00:44.10]And when she smiles my way [00:48.68] [00:49.82]My eyes go out in vain [00:52.40] [00:53.91]She's got perfect skin [00:55.54] [00:58.95]Shame on you you've got no sense of grace [01:02.53]Shame on me ah just in case [01:06.08]I might come to a conclusion [01:08.15]Other than that which is absolutely necessary [01:10.49] [01:12.27]And that's perfect skin [01:13.81] [01:28.07]Louise is the girl with the perfect skin [01:31.91]She says turn on the light otherwise it can't be seen [01:35.38]She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin [01:38.99]And she's sexually enlightened by cosmopolitan [01:42.54] [01:45.14]And when she smiles my way [01:47.33] [01:48.57]My eyes go out in vain [01:51.02] [01:52.75]For her perfect skin [01:54.40] [01:56.10]Yeah that's perfect skin [01:58.07] [02:19.38]She takes me down into the basement to look at her slides [02:23.24]Of her family life pretty weird at times [02:26.85]At the age of ten she looked like Greta Garbo [02:30.35]And I loved her then but how was she to know that [02:34.64] [02:36.75]When she smiles my way [02:38.77] [02:40.02]My eyes go out in vain [02:42.40] [02:44.13]She's got perfect skin [02:45.74] [02:48.71]Up eight flights of stairs to a basement flat [02:52.68]Pretty confused huh being shipped around like that [02:56.21]Seems we climbed so high now we're down so low [02:59.83]Strikes me the moral of this song must be there never has been one