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It was '96 in South Carolina

That’s the place and not the god-damn year

Sitting on the porch out at Bobby’s place

Just tugging on a lukewarm beer

And there I was peeping like an old sidewinder

Just an inch or so above the mud

The first to find out that its raining

Is the last to find out its a flood

It was Paradise Valley Nevada

Not far from where the west was won

I am the only black face in the whole damn place

Just a raisin in the blazing sun

And there I am like that old sidewinder

Just wishing that her eggs ain’t hatched

And the chain I wear has 'em wishin for the day

When it came with a ball attached

So I’m gonna move, right outta this town

When this old skin stops weighing me down

He was sitting in the very same spot that Otis

Sat to watch the dock of the bay

In the very same spot, that the ships rolled in

Now there’s nothing but the mud and the clay

I’m gonna move, right outta this town

When this old skin, is weighing me down

This old skin

Outside Orlando in the sunshine state

Has just upped itself another degree

I am the very last orange of the whole years crop

Hanging dearly to the branch of the tree

And the wind and the spring couldn’t do anything

So I’m burning in the sun of the south

That old sidewinder in the dust below

I’m just waiting till it opens its mouth

So I’m gonna move, right outta this town

When this old skin, finally touches the ground

He was sitting in the very same spot that otis

Sat to watch the dock of the bay

The very same spot the ships rolled in

Now there’s nothing but the mud and the clay

Now I’m gonna move, right outta this town

When this old skin, finally touches the ground

This old skin

This old skin

This old skin

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