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Artist: Ian Dury
Canonical path: /ian-dury/broken-skin
Related lyric paths: 6
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Broken Skin
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Broken Skin
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Share a good occasion
Hold the darkness in
Bear away abrasion
Free from broken skin
No pride is here to steer you
Wounds that never heal
So close and there to wander
Confines wearing thin
Clear in where to squander
Such untroubled skin
Though ships will still collide
Tonight there side by side
Sources of affection
Mine have never been
I'm in your collection
Born with broken skin
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Ian Dury performs "Broken Skin", and this lyric page sits inside the Ian Dury catalog on LyroVerse.
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