Chords for Lloyd Cole, 'Perfect Skin', 1987

[D] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [D] I [C] _ [Em]
[D] choose my friends [C] in a bar [G] seat, well [D] above the pavement.
[C] They're all [G] damned, [D] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [D] _ [C] and many [G] of them are blue.
[D] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [D] _ _ [C] _ [G]
[D] Louise is a girl, [C] and the [G] world revolves [D] upon the pavement.
[C] Yes, she's a weather [G] girl, and [D] I'm playing up here.
[C] _ [G] _ [D] _ [C] But there's much [G] more.
[F] _ When [G] she smiles [F] my way, my [G] eyes go out in vain.
_ [F] [G] Perfect skin.
_ _ [C]
[D] Shame on you, you've [C] got no [G] shame [D] on me.
[C] Just [G] in case [D] I might come to a conclusion [C] _ [G] [D] that says,
[C] [G] I'm that perfect [D] skin.
_ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
[D] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ [D]
She's a girl [C] with the perfect [G] skin.
She says, [D] turn on the light, [C] otherwise I can't [D] be seen.
She's got cheekbones like [C] geometry and eyes [G] like skin.
And [D] she's sexually enlightened [C] by [G] _
[F] _ me.
When she [G] smiles [F] my way, my [G] eyes go out _ in vain.
[F] But her perfect [G] skin, yeah, [C] that perfect [D] skin.
_ [C] _ [Em] _ [D] _ _ [C] _ [Em] _
[E] _ _ [D] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [D] _ [A] _
[E] _ _ [D] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [D] _ [A]
[D] She kicks me down to the basement.
[C] Look at the [G] size of [D] a family life.
[C] Pretty weird [G] at times, [D] and the _ [C] _ [G] _ [D] _ _ [C] [G] oldest she didn't know [F] that.
When she [G] smiles [F] my way, my eyes [G] go out in vain.
_ [F] She's got perfect [G] skin.
_ _ [C]
[D] I'll pay you flat for [C] _ [G] _ [D] faking [C] chinterelle.
[G] _
[D] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [F] Laurie Cullen.
_ _ _ [G] Hello.
Laurie, this is the perfect [F] award.
Thank you very much.
This has been a gas.
[Gm] [F] What?
[Am] This has been a gas.
Do you not know that expression?
No.
It's from the [Dm] 60s.
It means it was fun.
It's fun?
Yeah.
Great.
It was fun having you