From the song’s writer:
“Soft Skin is a series of questions following the first line of the song, ‘I’ve got soft skin, are you gonna let me in?’
It plays off the associations between women, their soft skin, and vulnerability, or openness within relationships. Soft Skin is meant to question the orig...
I got soft skin
Are you gonna let me in?
Warm amber eyes of a lion
On the couch
Cool green tiles in the kitchen
Cleaned up a quart of spilled milk in the moonlight
We were sleeping wet and tight
In our iron bed
Pictures shake and fall from the wall to the hard, hard floor
We shake and fall from the wall to the hard, hard floor
We're so wet and we're so tight
Beat me down into the floor tonight
Can't you understand I'm trying to be a good woman?
Let me go *7
Mountain Man released Soft Skin on Mon Jun 14 2010.