Skin on My Skin

Yearning Echoes: Embracing Absence in 'Skin on My Skin'
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Lyrics

What am I gonna do now that you're gone?

Expressing the immediate sense of loss and uncertainty after someone has left.

What am I gonna do now that you're gone?

Reiterating the feeling of confusion and emptiness due to the departure of a significant other.

Looking back how I wish I had told you what was on my mind

Regret for not openly communicating thoughts and feelings in the past.

Looking back, wish I had, said what was on my mind

Reflecting on missed opportunities to express sincere thoughts previously.

Reason away, reason away, I can't reason away my pain

Struggling to rationalize or find logical explanations for the emotional pain.

I cannot ease my pain

Acknowledging the inability to alleviate the emotional distress.


What am I gonna do now that you're gone?

Repeating the sense of loss and the challenge of coping with the absence.

What am I gonna do now that you're gone?

Reemphasizing the difficulty faced in dealing with the departure.

I turn out the lights and I'm alone

Turning off the lights symbolizes solitude and the realization of being alone.

You're not coming home

Acknowledging that the person is not returning home.

I miss your skin on my skin

Expressing a deep longing for physical intimacy, particularly the touch of the person's skin.


This feeling I know can't be compared

Describing an unparalleled feeling that cannot be equated to anything else.

Nothing can replace

Stressing that there is no substitute for the unique experience mentioned.

The feel of your skin on my skin

Reiterating the intense desire for the physical sensation of the person's skin.

I'm mystified, don't know how I let you slip away

Expressing confusion and a lack of understanding regarding how the person was let go.

Mystified, don't know how I let you slip away

Repeating the state of being puzzled and regretful about the departure.

Come back baby, come back is all that I can say

Pleading for the person to return, emphasizing the desperation for their presence.


Come back baby is all I can say

Reiterating the plea for the person to come back, expressing a sense of helplessness.

I turn out the lights and I'm alone

Recalling the solitude experienced when turning off the lights and being alone.

You're not coming home

Affirming that the person is not expected to return home.

I miss your skin on my skin

Reiterating the longing for the tactile experience of the person's skin.

This feeling I know can't be compared

Affirming that the emotional depth of the feeling cannot be matched or replicated.

Nothing can replace

Stressing the irreplaceability of the unique sensation described.


The feel of your skin on my skin

Reiterating the intense desire for the physical sensation of the person's skin.

Missin', I'm missin'

Expressing the ongoing sense of longing or missing the physical connection.

the feel of your skin

Repeating the idea of missing the tactile experience of the person's skin.

Missin', I'm missin', missin'

Continuing to emphasize the persistent feeling of missing the physical closeness.

On my skin

Repeating the sentiment of missing the person's presence on the skin.

Missin', I'm missin',

Further emphasizing the ongoing and continuous sense of missing the person.

Missin', I'm missin', missin'

Concluding with a repetition of the enduring feeling of missing the person.

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