Skeleton Key - Mark Lanegan

Ugly, I’m so very ugly

I’m ugly, inside and out, there’s no denyin'

Love me, why would you ever love me?

No one has ever loved me yet, pretty baby

Skeleton key, it won’t open up

It won’t open any lock I have on me

Rusted, bent and rusted

Your precious skeleton key

I spent my life, tryin' every way to die

Is it my fate to be the last one standin'?

Don’t you know it’s a crime?

All the shadowy peaks I climbed

And I have yet to ever be remanded

Yes, I have yet to ever be remanded

Holy, holy

All of your religions are a lie

Hold me, don’t you try to hold me

I clearly see my own way to the other side

Yes, I will make my own way to the other side

Cryin', quit your cryin'

Sun will likely rise again tomorrow

If you follow me down, through the underground

I would hook a leash upon your collar

Nothin' good is sustained, I’d gladly accept the blame

But all my words won’t add up to a dollar

Yes, all my words won’t add up to a dollar

Love me, don’t say that you love me

Nobody has ever loved me yet, pretty baby

Cryin', quit your cryin'

I have ten thousand tears that you can borrow

Come on, follow me down through the underground

And I will sing to you a song of sorrow

I will sing to you a sweet, straight song of sorrow

I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow

I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow

Skeleton key, where are ya?

Hey-yeah

Skeleton key, bent and rusted

All of your dreams are locked away

The hands have stopped, on the timekeeper’s clock

And you have got to learn to breathe underwater

Yeah, you have got to breathe, and breathe underwater

Skeleton key, bent and rusted

As broken as the heart the dirt has eaten

Love me, don’t pretend to love me

I’ve lost enough to know when I am beaten

I’ve lost enough to know when I’ve been beaten

I’ve lost enough to know when I’ve been beaten

Yes, I have lost enough to know when I’ve been beaten