Tanned - Maxïmo Park

Younger one

Darkly tanned, chewing gum

Mint on her mischievous tongue

Mingling with a taste of tin on her gums

Each layer removed revealed

A paler shade of skin

Each subtle shade fell

Like a secret shed

She was my reward

And I was hers

The summer glazed our skin

But it scorched everything.

Ooohh

Tentative

Her body’s out like Spanish eyes

Captured by all who like to nullify

The alcohol, she kept her jeans on in bed

Her mother let me stay

After the disco made us deaf

Cause we missed the final metro

To the flat that she once let

She was my reward

And I was hers

The summer glazed our skin

And it torched everything.

Ooohh

Each layer removed revealed

A paler shade of skin

And each subtle shade fell

Like a secret shed

She was my reward

And I was hers

The summer glazed our skin

But it scorched everything.

Ooohh