Perfect Skin-Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

[00:12.71]I choose my friends only far too well [00:15.78]And I'm up on the pavement [00:17.59]And they're all down in the cellar [00:19.47]With their government grants and my I.Q. [00:22.84]They brought me down to size, academia blues [00:28.32] [00:34.20]Louise is a girl, I know her well [00:37.70]She's up on the pavement [00:39.45]Yeah, she's a weathergirl [00:41.20]And I'm staying up here so I may be undone [00:44.64]She's inappropriate, but then she's much more fun [00:49.07]And when she smiles my way [00:54.45]My eyes go out in vain [00:58.82]She's got perfect skin [01:03.89]Shame on you, you've got no sense of grace [01:07.07]Shame on me, ah, just in case [01:10.51]I might come to a conclusion [01:12.82]Other than that which is absolutely necessary [01:17.26]And that's perfect skin [01:26.39] [01:32.88]Louise is the girl with the perfect skin [01:36.39]She says turn on the light, otherwise it can't be seen [01:39.89]She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin [01:43.73]And she's ***ually enlightened by cosmopolitan [01:46.04]And when she smiles my way [01:53.42]My eyes go out in vain [01:57.79]For her perfect skin [02:01.29]Yeah, that's perfect skin [02:10.74] [02:24.75]She takes me down into the basement to look at her slides [02:27.87]Of her family life, pretty weird at times [02:31.12]At the age of ten she looked like Greta Garbo [02:35.00]And I loved her then but how was she to know that [02:41.43]When she smiles my way [02:44.56]My eyes go out in vain [02:48.81]She's got perfect skin [02:53.62]Up eight flights of stairs to a basement flat [02:57.31]Pretty confused, huh, being shipped around like that [03:00.75]Seems we climbed so high now we're down so low [03:04.37]Strikes me the moral of this song must be there never has been one