Perfect skin (1984)

D - C - G (2x)

D C G

1. I choose my friends only far too well,

D C G

and I‘m up on the pavement, they‘re all down in the cellar

D C G

with their government grants and my I.Q.,

D C G

they brought me down to size, Academia Blues.

+ D - C - G (2x)

D C G

2. Louise is a girl, I know her well,

D C G

she‘s up on the pavement, yes, she‘s a weather girl,

D C G

and I‘m staying up here, so I may be undone,

D C G

she’s inappropriate, but then she‘s much more fun.

- F G F G

And when she smiles my way, my eyes go out in vain,

C G

she‘s got perfect skin.

D C G

3. Shame on you, you‘ve got no sense of grace,

D C G

shame on me, ah, just in case

D C G

I might come to a conclusion, other than that which is absolutely

D - C G D

necessary, and that‘s perfect skin.

+ D - C - G (4x)

D C G

4. Louise is the girl with the perfect skin,

D C G

she says: Turn on the light, otherwise it can‘t be seen.

D C G

She‘s got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin,

D - C G

and she‘s sexually enlighted by cosmopolitan.

- F G F G

And when she smiles my way, my eyes go out in vain

C G C D

for her perfect skin, yeah, that‘s perfect skin.

+ D - C - G (2x) + E - D - A (4x)

D C G

5. She takes me down to the basement to look at her slides

D C G

of her family life, pretty weird at times.

D C G

At the age of ten she looked like Greta Garbo,

D C G

and I loved her then, but how was she to know that.

F G F G

When she smiles my way, my eyes go out in vain,

C G

she‘s got perfect skin.

D C G

6. Up eight flights of stairs to her basement flat,

D C G

pretty confused, huh, being stripped around like that,

D C G

seems we climbed so high, now we‘re down so low,

D C

strikes me the moral of this song must be there, never

G D

has been one.

(Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)