Tanned

Album: Quicken The Heart (2009)
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  • The younger one
    Darkly tanned
    Chewing gum
    Mint on her mischievous tongue
    Mingling with a taste of tin
    On her gums

    Each layer removed
    Revealed a paler shade of skin
    Each subtle shade
    Felt like a secret shared

    She was my reward
    And I was hers.
    The summer glazed our skin
    But it scorched everything.

    Ooohh

    Tentative
    Her body's outline
    Spanish eyes
    Captured by amber light
    To nullify the alcohol
    She kept her jeans on in bed

    Her mother let me stay
    After the disco made us deaf
    'Cause we missed the final Metro
    To the flat that she once let

    She was my reward
    And I was hers
    The summer glazed our skin
    And it torched everything.

    Ooohh

    Each layer removed
    Revealed a paler shade of skin
    Each subtle shade
    Felt like a secret shared

    She was my reward
    And I was hers
    The summer glazed our skin
    But it scorched everything.

    Ooohh Writer/s: Archis Tiku, Duncan Robert Lloyd, Lukas James Wooller, Paul Anthony Smith, Thomas Alexander English
    Publisher: Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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