Peeling Out

Pretty Skinny

I just hope you don't get sick of me

It's what she said

And I told you, honest but brief

I'm just scared

How's it possible

We all have troubles

But yours seem to double up everyone else's 

Images get jumbled

Messages get fumbled

In this way we're helpless

Yes, you are pretty, baby

Yes, you are skinny, baby

In a monopoly of my time

Please do your best  not to do my job

It will be done

It will be done

In a society of high crime

You're the Corvette

That I'll drive until you break down

Don't walk away

Don't turn that page

No, don't you walk away

And the person to blame's always the same

What was your mother's name?

Yes, you are pretty, baby

Yes, you are skinny, baby

Can you smell the fight that's brewing?

Our insecurities doing

We're both right and both losing

And, yes, you're pretty

I'm sure it means less when you've tried all day

Yes you're skinny

Cast your lure from the side

You're not happy with the size of your forced compliment