Chords for Someone Else's Skin

[E] _ There's no _ phone booth
_ _ There's [B] no cape
_ [Db] _ _ [B] _ There's [E] no Steve McQueen
To help me [Dbm] make my [Abm] great escape _ _ _
How can [Ebm] _ _ I [E] fly
_ Like [Ebm] a hero in [E] the sky
_ [A] Be a shooting star
[Db] Out [G] in the [Ab] stratosphere
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
Where's [E] the shadow _ _ _
He [B] might know
_ [Db] _ _
[B] _ Where's that [E] searchlight
[Gb] In the [B]
sky to [E] point [Bb] the way to [Abm] go _
_ _ Through [Ebm] some new _ [E] cloud
_ [Ebm] To disappear into [E] the crowd
_ [A] Though the future's dark
[Db] There's one thing crystal [B] _ clear
That there's no [Gb] _ _ _ _ [B] home _ _ here
_ _ _ [C] Son, listen to me.
We just need a name.
Your mother or your father.
So many voices [F] telling me to [C] choose
It can get very expensive, people fighting over their children
It's like a game [Bbm] where either team [C] I lose
Nobody's fighting.
Frankie, look at me.
Nobody's fighting.
This kind of noise [Fm] just makes me wanna [Cm] shout
Frankie, just give them a [Fm] name and this will all be over.
It's gonna be [Cm] okay.
I'd like to buy [F] a one-way ticket [C] out
My brave little [F] surgeon, do what you have to do.
Rules of the road [Eb] say don't look back
[F] Eyes straight ahead, [G] don't jump the [F] track
[C] Try a new game
I'm [F] sorry, Frank.
And pray [C] that I can win
[Bb] I got no room to move here
[C] [Gm] Cause I just [F] don't [Fm] feel at home [Eb] in mine
[D] So I'll slip now [Gm] _ into someone _ else's [C] skin
_ _ I [Bb] _ _ _
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [C] _ see the maps [Gm] from every [F] book [C] I've read
The worlds that I [Bb] have lived inside [C] my head
I thought a love [Gm] like theirs could [F] never [C] die
If it can fade [Bb] away, then [C] so [F] can I
At first you see me, [Eb] then you don't
[F] _ Don't look for me, you know I won't [C] even be _ [Bb] there
So let [C] the games _ [Eb] begin
[Bb] _ [C]
Cause [Bb] I just [F] don't [Fm] feel at home [Eb] in mine
[D] So I'll slip now [G] _ into [C] someone else's [Bb] skin
Into [F] someone [C] else's skin, [Bb] yeah _ _
[F] I'm gonna run down the street, run out of town
I'm gonna run from the whole team and never touch down
[D] [G] Run from the [D] books [G] cause it's all been a fake
[D] I'm gonna [G] run from the [D] choices [G] that I don't wanna [D] make
[Eb] _ School's not out, [C] but I can't waste
[F] _ Perfect [D] time to graduate [G] today
Gotta _ _ _ run [C] away _ _ [Gm] now
I've got [F] to [C] run away, yeah
[Gm] _ [Bb] _ _
[C] You know they'll see the truth when I move on
They'll need each other much more once I'm gone
When I'm flush and he's back on his feet
[Bb] I'll pick [C] him up and [Bb] ride down [Eb] Deasy [F] Street
No time to cry [Eb] for all the [F] years
A rusty gas tank [Bb] full of [F] tears
[C] Gets you nowhere, _ [Gm] _ not the [C] places I want [Eb] in
[Bb] _ [C] _
[Bb] And I just [F] don't [Fm] feel at home [Eb] in mine
[D] So I'll slip _ [G] now [Bb] into [C] someone else's skin
[Bb] _ Into [C] someone else's skin, [Gm] yeah _ _
[C] _ _ Into _ [Bb] _ _ _
[C] someone else's skin, [Bb] yeah
Into someone else's skin
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _