Favourite Sinner from Skin: Deep by Penelope Swales

Favourite Sinner
© Penelope Swales 2007

Oh, the restaurant signs are glowin’
On highways A, B, C, D, E and G, yeah
The Greyhound is rolling
It’s gonna bring you back to me
Well, I’m haunted by your vision
Haunted by the things I see
Knowin’ how your hard, ragged laughter
Would ring if you were here with me

Chorus:
Take me back, my favourite sinner
To a Summer in your arms
Where everything I ever wanted
Was right there in my palm
In a schizophrenic country
Strength and vulnerability
Knowin’ there was somethin’ you needed
You could only get from me

Well the hair upon your belly
Oh, the creases on your face
Oh-ah, the way you shave so badly
These things can’t be erased
Mm, the skin upon your shoulders
The way it smells when wet with kisses
That slight bruisin’ deep inside me
Your soft and knowing fingers

Chorus

Ahh – da da….

Ridin’ high on torn upholstery
State after State unrolled
It felt like heaven, smelt like freedom
But you were only on parole
Now you’re locked inside this winter
I think about you in your cell
You and your kind-hearted jailer
Some things I can never tell

Take me back, my favourite sinner
To a Summer in your arms
Where everything I ever wanted
Was right there in my palm
Your arms tighten ‘round the corner
Stop me slidin’ from your knee
Here in the dull-roaring darkness
I sing to you, you sing to me

• Acoustic
• Contemporary Folk
• female vocalist
• political
• singer-songwriter
• Boolarra