------------------------------ SHED SOME SKIN - Slow Gherkin ------------------------------ INTRO: B F# Abm Ebm E B F# F# VERSE: B F# It's Christmas Day in gay Paris Abm Ebm Not so gay for Galen Z. E B Sixteen hours in a sweaty kitchen F# For money that makes minimum wage look good. B F# 6 a.m. on the subway Abm Ebm Stop station, through the doorway E B Crowds of people standing, yelling, screaming F# "What's going on? I must be dreaming." CHORUS: Abm And the city forgets Ebm They didn't even perceive Abm And the trains keep blowing up C#5 E week after week. [REPEAT INTRO] VERSE: B F# Franzel's traveled wide and far Abm Ebm Back from the U.S.S.R. E B Went there to pursue a lifelong calling F# You found only numb toes and helpless longing. B F# Now you're back at home today Abm Ebm Back in the old USA. E B Scoop up handfuls of your native dust F# And cross the country in a Greyhound bus. CHORUS: Abm Another failed attempt Ebm It's no use trying to pretend Abm Now you're right back C#5 E where you started again. [REPEAT INTRO] BRIDGE: B G Abm B F# I saw what's wrong but I didn't see how Abm E I saw, I saw B F# We're all grown up now. VERSE: B F# Today's your twentieth birthday Abm Ebm Alone you walk the banks of Maine E B As time runs out to write the second verse of F# The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock. B F# While you're gone we'll be here still Abm Ebm Just beyond those distant hills E B Could be that you got the upper hand F# When you left this rustic never-never land. CHORUS: Abm And my breathing constricts Ebm I feel the walls closing in Abm Could it be that finally we're all C#5 E Shedding some skin. [REPEAT INTRO]
