Skin deep

(Ah, yeah)

(Don’t call it love...)

(Just skin deep, skin deep...)

Night drips slow through the window screen

You say "just friends" — I know what you mean

Your dress on the floor, but your walls still high

Getting higher together just to feel alive

We're riding silence in a rented car

Chasing city lights like we’re chasing scars

You touch my hand but you pull away

Every damn time it’s the same old play

You want my shadow, not my soul

You want the heat but not the cold

That’s fine, I’m numb enough by now

Let’s burn this down without the sound...

We’re just skin deep — that’s what you tell ‘em

Blurring the lines until we can’t tell ‘em

Kisses like secrets, pain in the rhythm

I’m your late-night habit, not your religion

Skin deep, skin deep

Falling in the dark where the love don’t sleep

Skin deep, skin deep

Hold me like you mean it, even if it’s cheap

Smoke in the mirror, we look like a lie

Two broken puzzles that pretend they fit right

You're high on the distance, I'm high on the chase

We’re perfectly shallow in the worst kind of way

Ooh, your lips say "stay" but your eyes say "run"

Guess I’m addicted to not being the one

You want my body, not the break

You love the flood but not the ache

That’s cool, I’m hollow just like you

So do the things that strangers do

We’re just skin deep — that’s what you tell ‘em

Blurring the lines until we can’t tell ‘em

Kisses like secrets, pain in the rhythm

I’m your late-night habit, not your religion

Skin deep, skin deep

Falling in the dark where the love don’t sleep

Skin deep, skin deep

Hold me like you mean it, even if it’s cheap

(Sax melody — emotional, detached, drowning in reverb and delay)

(Ad-libs: “Just friends, yeah... that’s what we said...” “Under the skin, under the skin...”)