VEGANGELICA

Hello MB people,

From pig slaughter to romance! Since the previous lyrics I posted were for my vegan song called "Hide" (which ended with these lines, "Lounge back on your leather chair, cross your boots of someone’s skin, I don’t know how you can bear to wear the hide you’re in"), I decided a fitting contrast would be the lyrics for a song called "Skin" that I am working on...because "Skin" is about how it feels to fall in love.

A little background on "Skin." A friend of mine loves techno dance love songs, which I generally dislike because they seem so silly, but I promised I'd try to write one. The lyrics were inspired partly by MusicBanter. I remember reading in the Sexual Experience Thread when someone wrote that he'd never fallen in love and wondered how it would feel. This resulted in a discussion about what is "love," being "in love," and lust. Since techno dance songs often seem to be about love, I decided to write a song about what *I* feel it feels like to fall in love with someone.

In "Skin," I wanted to avoid something I dislike immensely in romantic love songs, which is when people say "I need you" or "I can't live without you" or "You complete me," since those are all exaggerations and seem more like dependency speaking rather than expressions of the mixture of love, lust and friendship that strengthens rather than weakens independent people who are in love. Yet I also wanted to acknowledge the strong feelings that get aroused.

A problem with my lyrics is that since the topic is so common I probably have inadvertantly copied wording from other songs, although I tried to Google some of my lines to make sure they aren't exactly like those of existent songs. I had hoped MusicBanter might help me with this area, since so many people here listen to music as their main musical activity that they should know, instantly, if my lyrics sound exactly like those of some other song. So if or when they do, please let me know!

ERICA'S RATING SYSTEM Rating for "Skin" is "ATFFIL" for "About the Feeling of Falling in Love."
(So, AwwSugar, if you aren't in a mushy mood, avoid!)

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"SKIN" by Erica

I want to get under your skin
‘til you forget where I end and you begin.
I love hoping I’m someone whom you miss.
You are the opposite of emptiness.

My life is full - I’m rarely lonely,
yet I feel better when you hold me.
I love feeling you’re someone whom I miss.
You always add to my happiness.

I know this must be some
biological mechanism kicking in.
I know I’m probably in
the throes of oxytocin,
but it feels so good when
two obsessions meet at the same time,
I wish when you awake my name
were your first thought like yours is mine.

I want to get under your skin
‘til I forget where I end and you begin.
I love the world you’re offering to me,
the barriers of our bodies melting beautifully.

My life’s complete. I feel whole.
Yet you stir my non-existent soul.
I love the feeling of your openness.
You draw me into you with each caress.

I know this must be some
biological mechanism kicking in.
I know I’m probably in
the throes of oxytocin,
but it feels so good when
two obsessions meet at the same time,
I wish when you awake my name
were your first thought like yours is mine.

One word from you and you rivet my attention.
A look at me and I’m sure you read my intention.
You bring so much joy, you’re someone whom I miss,
and I want to give you happiness.

(BRIDGE)
There might be a thousand people
who could mean this much to me,
and I’d probably like them and they’d like me, too,
but I just want you!

I would be fine if you left me.
I’ve learned the skill of stability,
and I won’t take what isn’t given,
still I want to get beneath
your lovely, silky, warm skin!

I know this must be some
biological mechanism kicking in.
I know I’m probably in
the throes of oxytocin,
but it feels so good when
two obsessions meet at the same time,
I wish when you awake my name
were your first thought like yours is mine.

One word from you and you rivet my attention.
A look at me and I’m sure you read my intention.
You bring so much joy, you’re someone whom I miss,
and I want to give you happiness.
I want to give you happiness.

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