Skin and Bone
Anorexia Nervosa is a condition which I find very difficult to understand.
This song is an attempt to describe the decline of a young girl who died as a result of a crazy diet which triggered this fatal eating disorder. There’s really nothing more to say about the song.
You wake up in the morning to another desperate day
The colours are all fading into darker shades of grey
And the sounds becoming muffled - muffled voices in your head
Your waking hours are living dreams, when you're sleeping it's like death
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Skin and Bone, skin and bone
Aiming for beauty
But all you found there was skin and bone
You think the scales are lying as they keep creeping down
Yours eyes search in the mirror to find those missing pounds
Your clothes are getting looser but your eyes refuset you see
The alarm bells should be ringing out now you're down to six stone three.
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Dried biscuits and warm water with a twist of lemon peel
You think it is excessive as you savour your last meal
Beyond the brink of sanity into chasms of despair
You stop eating altogether now - death js hanging in the air
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You father's feeling helpless - he's staring down at you
That doctors really worried now you're down to five stone two
Their voices seem so distant as you slump back in the chair
Your mother's crying for your love but now you're far too tired to care
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Those models on the catwalk so beautiful and slim
Admired and loved by everyone - their bodies are a sin
They've got you on this dreadful diet that dragged you down and down
It was on your fifteenth birthday, that we laid you in the ground
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