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My Skin Lyrics
Artist: Natalie Merchant
Album: Ophelia
Take a look at my body
Look at my hands
There's so much here that I don't understand
Your face say these promises
Whispered like prayers
I don't need them
Because I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
Well content loves the silence
It thrives in the dark
With fine winding tendrils
That strangle the heart
They say that promises sweeten the blow
But I don't need them, no
I don't need them
I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
I'm the slow dying flower
In the frost killing hour
Sweet turning sour anduntouchable
Oh, I need the darkness
The sweetness
The sadness
The weakness
Oh, I need this
I need a lullaby
A kiss good night
Angel sweet love of my life
Oh, I need this
I'm the slow dying flower
In the frost killing hour
Sweet turning sour anduntouchable
Do you remember the way that you touched me before
All the trembling sweetness I loved and adored
Your face saying promised whispered like prayers
I don't need them
Oh, I need the darkness
The sweetness
The sadness
The weakness
Oh, I need this
I need a lullaby
A kiss good night
Angel sweet love of my life
Oh, I need this
Well is it dark enough
Can you see me
Do you want me
Can you reach me
Oh, I'm leaving
You better shut your mouth
And hold your breath
And kiss me now
And catch your death
Oh, I mean this
Oh, I mean this
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Comments/Interpretations
I think this song is kind of depressing. I really like it though. I think shes singing about her boyfriend or husband. I love the sound of the piano keys!
It is very nice song. I like the sound of the piano.
It is a sad song, and gets me crying... I adore the violin and her vocal parts!
Fabulously sad song. Great piano, Great voice. I think it suits Professor McGonagall out of Harry Potter, i'm sure she has so much that she hides.
i'm the jack in the box that went to one of your shows,;what does catch your death mean?
I read that it was about loosing love and then finding through lonliness, into comfort and then new love.
This song is very good :* and lovely
I think it relates perfectly to the way bells feels about edward in the book 'new moon' by stephenie meyer, the sequal to'twilight'. Both amazing books. Read them all!
Love this song. Its so emotional. I think it could mean many things. Like, she wants us to use our imaginations to link the lyrics with our own lives.
According to the always right Wikipedia... "My Skin" is a Natalie Merchant song from her second solo album Ophelia. The song's theme appears to be the story of a woman whose husband has fallen out of love with her, the different emotions she feels and her final resolution to leave him.
I think this is about a lover dying and speaking to her other lover that will live on without her... just my interpretation tho.
Beautiful song, I love the piano's tones. I agree, it sounds like it's about abuse and being hurt.
i have been molested and had so many things happen and this so always makes me cry. i told my mum i want her to have this at my funeral because it explains me.
This song makes me cry so hard. It's beautiful. I have an eating disorder and I can relate the lyrics to how I feel. It was also used a few times on hollyoaks with the hannah ashworth anorexic storyline. I don't think it is about eating disorders though. x
I don't think it needs to be about anything specific. Like being abused or someone falling out of love. It's just about feeling pain inside and felling trapped and having nowhere to turn. But at the same time you don't want to change it because it's what you've always know and if it goes away then your whole world will be exposed and fall apart.
This song is sooo beautiful! It makes me cry every time!! I think it is about how her boyfriend/husband promised her everything, and he didn't keep the promise...It's an amazing song! I totally freaked when i read that someone related it to Twilight because it is perfect! I love the vocals and the piano!
It doesn't really matter what the true meaning of the song is, her voice alone is simply amazing, coupled with the music the song can be what you make it. To me it puts me in a different place and time that just lets me imagine whatever I want.
this is a song from one woman to another
this song makes me cry
I couldn't agree with you more Faster. What i gorgeous song and what a gorgeous soul she has!
This song is definately not about abuse...It's about...When you love someone and give them your heart and soul, but they don't give anything back. Lots of us women do it (Men too, they just don't admit it to their male friends.) She gets promises but no comfort...No Sweetness, Openess, sadness to share, nothing to share...just words to keep her around. She threatens him at the end, not actually leaving, still thinking about kissing him...It is the saddest, most heart-wrenching song, ever!
This song has sooo much meaning. A very beautiful song, i like depressing songs once in a while, because everyone needs to be sad sometimes. And it kind of makes you a little bit sad:P
wow the vocals at the beggining of the song. My god thats so sad and beatiful and the piano and the violin wow
It's about Ophelia and Hamlet isn't it?
It's about abuse, from my viewpoint anyways. And no matter what you think it is about, it revolves around hurt. I love this song, it helps me through the almost unbearable patches that so frequently bloom their ugly thorn covered flowers into my life. And yes, sadness can also be a beautiful gift, because it makes us settle down and think, instead of being euphoric all the time. :)
i keep seeing this on Brooke Davis vids, especially after she got.. well.. beaten. and yeah. It makes me think of that. And i'm sad.
The comments that suggest the song is about physical abuse might be valid, although at times we neglect emotional abuse as an equally distressing concept. For example, the whispered and face-saving promises that soften the blow can be taken concretely and literally or can be assumed more formally as a figurative reference to any pain resulting from internalized dissonance - whatever the external source. In any event... beautifully articulated.
this song is about bulimia and how her husband or boyfreind dosent love her as much anymore because of it
I seem to recall an interview with Ms. Merchant at the time of Ophelia's release that My Skin was "about" a woman suffering from cancer. The lyrics express her distress and feelings of alienation as her husband increasingly sees her only as her disease. He talks to her differently now, touches her differently now, ever aware of the presence of the disease. Anyone else remember this?
I luv the song! BEAUTIFUL PIANO! But I've thought that the name should be: 'Untouchable' Also, just to throw out there...if ur looking for a really great song, try: 'Beauty From Pain' by Superchic[k] p.s. sorry if any spelling was off, im a horrible speller!
I did this song for my town's annual talent show and everyone was crying because my town's mayor had just been molested. I won 1 prize, though. (The mayor was a judge)
great song for new moon
in harry potter they play that song on you tube and talks about how hermione gets pregnant
This song reminds me of the character River Tam from the TV series Firefly. Very fitting for her.
cool song
its actually "contempt" loves the silence
I read on Wikipedia it's about a husband who has cheated on his wife.
i love this song...its so beautiful
i love to listen to this song whenever i'm upset.. :D
this song reminds me of my eating disorder so much, it makes me really sad. but puts the struggling and pain into perspective for others..
me encanta esta canción.
First of all, Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source of information--anyone can go in an change whatever is put on there. I can see where this song could be about abuse (both mental and physical) as well as an incurable disease--cancer included.
This song is about abuse and its effects on ones soul. She has been treated wrong--and treated for the effects for so long (by his condescending promises). Also, she may be saying she doesn't need his promises to stay, but his sweetness, a lullaby,a kiss goodnight; him, the way he had once been. There are different forms of abuse--there is emotional abuse, and neglect. She (the singer-writer) is dark, she is hurting, she is brooding. She's turned it all inward--making her untouchable, but she wants to be touched--but, he won't--so, she's leaving before her inward turmoil spills out to kill either herself, or her lover. This song is hauntingly gorgeous in every way--the lyrics match the music perfectly--as well as ones mood.
kinda of sad when u relate it to urself....i luv it!
i thought this song is about self abuse...like an eating disorder. how you fall into your disease and feel utterly untouchable and want to crawl out of your skin.
This song was played when Dana on The L Word dies from complications due to breast cancer and her lover walks up and sees her dying through the hospital window. I will always think of that when I hear this song. Very beautifully written and the piano is perfect.
I love this song. The piano part is so beautiful! I need to teach myself this song.
I'm a Merlin fan and i've just watch this tribute with this song in it...it really matches with Merlin especially after series 2 as he loses so many people.
This is the most hauntingly beautiful song I have ever heard. It always brings me to tears. And since the first time I ever heard it was in the commercial for the Humane Society, it brings to mind the hundreds of thousand of animals who are abused and abandoned and needing loving homes. Please rescue an animal today!
I forgot I had this album until they used this song in an animal abuse ad for a certain charity(not that I don't want to give the charity props, I honestly just can't remember if it was HSUS or ASPCA!) What a blessing to remember though...1 thing though, I always thought she was saying" you're face saving promises..."
this song has alot of meanings one of them being abuse it doesnt have one meaning.
To Anon- thank you for that! I look at this song so differently now. I never even saw it as abuse to begin with, but for me, more personally, as a person with mental illness trying to make a relationship work, bc that's MY life. Anyway its even more sad for me now
I think it suits Sirius Black from Harry Potter. It's so sad.....Describes the way he was treated.
heya listen to the song kiss the rain and then read the part out of new moon where edward leaves bella in the forest listen to both kiss the rain and that part of the book together and you will b cryin
I love this song and the beautiful cello parts.
Well, I think it suits Ophelia, from 'Hamlet', really. Not just that Hamlet ends up abandoning her and treating her like crap, but his brother is out too. And his father has died. She's all alone. And she goes mad. It's just an interpretation! (:
I believe it's about a sweet women that fell in love with a guy that in the beginning promised her the world and told her what she wanted to hear he led her on to believe he was content but spent his nights with another women the part about twines and heart meaning was his sweet words caught her heart but also would hurt her heart she loved him so she put up with she felt she was nothing without him she was confused why he wasn't attracted to her anymore when she just longed for his love and his touch she wasn't the same anymore she felt unworthy and bitter she eventually had enough and if she couldn't have him nobody could and it drove her to kill him
It was written for a friend who died of aids.