If I wear silk or not?
Why do you care
What's under my skin
I could be smooth as a pancake
I could be smart as a grin
It wouldn't change my silken stain
Wouldn't change my velvet name
I could polish my marble stairs
For the one foot ever to tread there
And I could pacify my fluid tongue
But why do you care what I've done?
Cause I'm as shiny as satin
Got silk in my skin
Sleek as a mink, I am
And I could mellow my angry stages
Erase all the pages I want to hide
I could abide by my lying mazes
Till I fall to your honest places
Why do you care
If I wear silk or not?
Why do you care
What's under my skin
I could be smooth as a pancake
I could be smart as a grin
It wouldn't change my silken stain
Wouldn't change my velvet name
And I won't change my velvet name
Though I know of the silken stain
It's permanent on me, give up this body
I don't like the skin on me
Cause I'm as shiny as satin
Got silk in my skin
Sleek as a mink, I am
And I'm as fragile as satin
As deceptive as silk
A treacherous mink, I am
And I'm as fragile as satin
With false silk in my skin
Sleek as a mink, I am
And I have this silken stain
That I can't change