Skin Deep by Ryan Griffin

No Address - Movie Soundtrack by Various Artists

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Skin Deep
by Ryan Griffin

Album: No Address - Movie Soundtrack

Verse 1
I could be a soldier, a hero with a purple heart
I could be a kid that grew up
Without a fighting chance from the start
I could be a teacher, a PhD from an Ivy League
I could be a mother or a father
Someone's son or someone's daughter

Chorus
What you can read on this cardboard sign
Is a story of a broken life
Still got dreams, still got hopes
Even though they're running low
You don't see everything that I lost
How much it hurts, yeah, and what it all cost
I ain't asking, "Why, God? Why?"
I'm just praying I'll get by
But you're gonna see what you wanna see
If you're only looking skin deep

Post-Chorus
Ooh-ooh-ooh

Verse 2
Might've made a couple wrong turns
Might be playing with the hand I was dealt
You might see see me on the corner
And think I don't deserve no help
But if you walk in my shoes for a minute
Not from the outside, but right here in it
You would see we ain't that different
Ain't that different, no

Chorus
What you can read on this cardboard sign
Is a story of a broken life
Still got dreams, still got hopes
Even though they're running low
You don't see everything that I lost
How much it hurts, yeah, and what it all cost
I ain't asking, "Why, God? Why?"
I'm just praying I'll get by
But you're gonna see what you wanna see
If you're only looking skin deep, oh-oh

Post-Chorus
Skin deep, oh-oh-oh

Bridge
Yeah, we all need a hand sometimes
A second chance to get it right
And I hope you know the next time you pass by

Chorus
What you can read on this cardboard sign
Is a story of a broken life
Still got dreams, still got hopes
Even though they're running low
You don't see everything that I lost
How much it hurts, yeah, and what it all cost
I ain't asking, "Why, God? Why?"
I'm just praying I'll get by
But you're gonna see what you wanna see
If you're only looking skin deep

Outro
Woah, woah, skin deep
Mm