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Thick Skin

from Sketches of Sophia by George Burl

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Its taken me years to grow this think skin
But now I'm too afraid to start breaking it in

In this hot southern swamp its starting to shrink
And it's squeezing my bones a bit too tight I think

The past that I buried gets dug up here daily
And the woman I married says I just look crazy

Its 90 degrees and your drinking black coffee
Two Dollars a cup but the second one's free
Now your eyes are all charged with caffeine
so its easy to see how uncomfortable I seem to be

In my thick skin

I'm spittin up coals with diamonds inside
But everyone knows that diamonds ain't worth nuthin!
They're just shiny rocks
And there's a whole lot of them

And each word that I speak
Comes out as a puff of ash

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from Sketches of Sophia, released May 5, 2010
Engineered by: George Iamanasterix & Chris Burda
Produced & Mixed by: George Iamanasterix
Performers: George Burl & The Scroogleking Players
Fiddle: Kaitlyn Filippini

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George Burl

George Burl is a songwriter, producer and something akin to a record label. He is not a person. He is a pseudonym. A philosophical experiment conceived in a small cottage in Nebraska, birthed in the Redwood forests of California and distilled in the hills of Tennessee. ... more

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