LET'S BE FRIENDS (SKIN TO SKIN)

I been watchin' you a long time
Trying to figure out where and when
We been moving down that same line
The time is now maybe we could get skin to skin

Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin' a-way
Let's be friends, baby let's be friends

I know we're different you and me
Get a diffente way of walkin'
The time has come te let the past be history
Yeah, if we could just start talkin'

Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin' a-way
Let's be friends, baby let's be friends

Do, do do doo do do do doo...

There's a lot of talk going 'round now
Let'em talk you know you're the only one
There's a lot of walls need tearing down
Together we could take them down one by one

CHORUS

Released on The Rising in 2002, the album that won a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album, and that was also nominated for Album Of The Year.

Yet to be performed life, this track was probably very unexpected given that the audience was expecting an album to contain themes of sorrow, grief, loss, and danger. This song has a lot in common with 60's soul, right down to the "do do do do do do's". But with deeper analysis, the threat of good times coming to an end and slipping away state the transitory nature of innocence and pleasure.

Available on:

1. The Rising (track 8)