Skin – English Lyrics

• By: Rebecca Armstrong

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the world of Rebecca Armstrong through her debut single 'Skin.' This song is a perfect tool for language learners to practice emotive, contemporary English, featuring clear pronunciation and lyrical phrasing that captures raw, heartfelt emotion.

[English]

You and I had a light of our own.

Burning bright like a fire in the cold.

Summer nights on the skies made of gold.

Now my love has got nowhere to go. Right

place, wrong time. Didn't fall out of

love.

Your face, your eyes, they've been

keeping me up.

I still got the feeling of your fingers

on my skin.

I'm meant to be healing. I don't know

where to begin.

I still got a little red heart right

next to your name. I deleted it once.

Put it back. The next day I ain't

sleeping. When I close my eyes, I feel

it. Your fingers on my skin.

Your fingers hurt my skin.

Your fingers hurt my skin. Wide awake

next to hug my emotions.

Trying to work out how I'm meant to

feel. Fake a smile. Try to hide that I'm

broken. Reaching out for a head that

ain't real. Right place, wrong time. Is

that all that it was?

Your face, your eyes, they've been

keeping me up. How do I fall out of love

when I still got the feeling of your

fingers on my skin?

I'm meant to be healing. I don't know

where to begin.

I still got a little red heart right

next to your name. I deleted it once,

but I'm back. The next day is sleeping.

When I close my eyes, I feel

your fingers hug my skin.

Your fingers hide my skin.

I still got a little red heart right

next to your name. I delete it once, put

it back. The next day ain't sleeping.

When I close my eyes, I feel it. Your

fingers hunt my skin.

Key Grammar Structures

• You and I had a light of our own.

  ➔ Simple Past Tense

  ➔ "Had" is the past tense of 'have', used here to describe a state that existed in the past.

• I'm meant to be healing.

  ➔ Passive Voice with Infinitive

  ➔ "Be meant to" is an idiomatic passive construction meaning 'supposed to' or 'expected to'.

• I've been keeping me up.

  ➔ Present Perfect Continuous

  ➔ "Have been keeping" suggests an action that started in the past and is still continuing now.

• I don't know where to begin.

  ➔ Wh-word + to-infinitive

  ➔ "Where to begin" is a noun phrase functioning as the object of 'know', expressing uncertainty about the starting point.

• Trying to work out how I'm meant to feel.

  ➔ Gerund as Subject/Participial Phrase

  ➔ "Trying" acts as a participle here, describing the state of the subject, followed by the phrasal verb "work out".

• Is that all that it was?

  ➔ Relative Clause

  ➔ "That it was" is a reduced relative clause modifying 'all', where 'that' is the relative pronoun.

• I still got a little red heart.

  ➔ Informal usage of 'Have got'

  ➔ "Got" is used colloquially instead of 'have' to indicate possession.

• When I close my eyes, I feel it.

  ➔ Adverbial Clause of Time

  ➔ "When I close my eyes" is a temporal clause indicating the specific moment an action happens.