[Intro]
D5 F5 Gm7 Am7 Gm7 Am7
[Verse]
Gm7 Am7
There's a lock on my cupboard door,
Gm7 Am7
That I can only reach once inside,
Gm7 Am7
And I often sit and wonder who designed,
Gm7 Am7
Such a perfect place for me to hide
[Chorus]
Bb
It's just my name,
Am7
It's just my skin,
Gm7
Holding the boulder,
Am7
Can you swim?
D5
Oh as we fall,
F5
Through the water,
Gm7 Am7
You find a piece within,
D5 F5 Gm7 Am7 Gm7 Am7
And you know it's just your skin
[Verse]
Gm7 Am7
Well I was never lonely ‘till the day that I was born,
Gm7 Am7
And since that day I masquerade in a skin that I have worn,
Gm7 Am7
With at least three separate individual minds,
Gm7 Am7
When long John returns he'll give a scream at what he finds
[Chorus]
Bb
It's just my name,
Am7
It's just my skin,
Gm7
Holding the boulder,
Am7
Can you swim?
D5
Oh as we fall,
F5
Through the water,
Gm7 Am7
You find a piece within, and you know it's just your
[Bridge]
Bb6/F Cadd11/G
Black dog, black dog, that I'll never know,
Bb6/F Cadd11/G
Oh black dog haunts you mind, your world, your soul,
Bb6/F Cadd11/G
Oh black dog, black dog, can't you see I'm fine?
Bb6/F Cadd11/G
Oh black dog, black dog, you're no plague of mine.
[Outro]
Bb6
It's just my name,
Am7
It's just my skin,
Gm7
Holding a boulder,
Am7
Can you swim?
Bb6
It's just my name,
Am7
Oh, it's just my skin,
Gm7
Holding a boulder,
Am7
Can you swim?
D5
Oh as we fall,
F5
Through the water,
Gm7 Am7
You find a piece within,
D5
And you know it's just your skin.
