I'm Not This Layer Of Skin by Yvonne McDonnell Music

Through substance and through witchery
Is this all the young man sees?
Ignores her silenced plea
To focus on her beauty

She's dead and useless now
And her story's untold to the world
No longer sees the four grey walls,
Or the shadows through a tiny door
Engraved in a wooden boat
With stone, is her name she wrote
But he just looks above her throat
And her face is all he cares about

You might look but you don't see me
I'm not this layer of skin
And you might touch but you can't feel me
I'm not this layer of skin
I'm stored with, stored within
I'm stored within my skin

Not the first won’t be the last
He hasn’t noticed he’s looked past
That this sweet breath is now her last
It’s a curse that mother nature cast
What a story what romance
He loves her with just one glance
Oh why is it this feeble stance
Is seen throughout the greatest arts?

You might look but you don't see me
I'm not this layer of skin
And you might touch but you can't feel me
I'm not this layer of skin
I'm stored with, stored within
I'm stored within my skin

This is our lot I’m told
A bleak future for me unfolds
The blood running through my veins turns cold
I think of how I’ve already grown

My skin has thickened and my face is still
But I’m a woman and all I do is feel
Oh where’s that child she was so pure
I can’t find her in me anymore
I Want to love but it’s just so hard
To pull this façade apart
And I miss her and it makes me cry
And I see it in my mother’s eyes

She sees me as when I was born
And the love she holds has never worn
Consistent and it’s never slack
And the weight of it would break your back
I’m not half the woman that she’s always been
But I am her and she was me
She feels my pain it’s hers she sees
And her knowing eyes watch over me

You might look but you don't see me
I'm not this layer of skin
And you might touch but you can't feel me
I'm not this layer of skin
I'm stored with, stored within
I'm stored within my skin