The Clash - Lose This Skin (with lyrics)

[makeghandi]

Other than the drums, I have always despised this song... Just can't bring myself to appreciate it, it reminds me too much of the god-awful Cotton-eye Joe...

[isaacbateman76]

Grandfather of Justin Bieber xD 

[isaacbateman76]

Hard to find sandinista nowdays~

[isaacbateman76]

I think a woman sang this! but unfortunately a man sang this ~ WOW

[isaacbateman76]

Nice! :D

[CatapultYourMom]

There's a lot of crap on Sandinsta--this song is very cool, however.

[lcacwelder]

@CatapultYourMom I suppose your right I think it's #2 disc I like best. I still have it in my garage cd player. Ity's become a staple.

[madisondeforest]

amazing <3

[Felipfelip68]

your on the money there `really the blues`. drum and bass at 1:42 is pure rock n roll mastery. few know if it was Simonon or Norman Watt Roy playing with Headon. Either way..

Tymon Dogg was Strummers busking partner pre 101ers back in the early 70`s.. they bumped into each other in NYC while the Sandanista sessions were in progress.. resulting in this, arguably the finest track on the album.

[SeonhwaDaDiscPriest]

Dear God

Please give us back The Clash.

[cythera431]

forgot about this gem...love the fiddle.

[mrsolle]

this song is my fav of the clash....... and it's not even the real singer, i don't know the real singers name. and now i feel quite ashamed! (and stoned)

[lcacwelder]

@mrsolle Right on!

[9999francesco]

@mrsolle The singer and composer is Tymon Dogg

[quietflight1964]

Yes, Sandinista is the most underrated album ever created and is one of the most diverse, not to mention it is my favorite....Long live The Clash!

[therememate]

just fantastic

[mircea1910]

thunder and lightning!

[LanceHelmut]

gee-zus..they tried to do everything on this record...what a masterpiece...you either fight or you surf.

[reallytheblues]

Bass line and drums in this song are my favourite ever!

[fastacid714]

Thanks for the upload, My fav Clash album. I remember getting it, three LP's for the price of two. and liner notes with cartoons wore the shit out of all of it.

[Cato1058]

I bought Sandinista in early 1981 in Milwaukee, and spent a snowy afternoon listening to all six sides. It was a memorable time in my life...

[svesse2]

i always thought it was a female singer. I can't understand it's a man..

[SuperPais]

@svesse2 Ahha

[cenimirius]

Unfairly forgotten song

[PenetreraEskimo]

Love this song!

[roumlig1944]

Words can not describe the beaty of this song.

[roumlig1944]

Words cnnot describe the beauty of this song.

[oddvids]

I remember when I played this side of Sandinista for the first time. When Tymon Dogg had just started singing I was sure I'd accidentally gotten the record to play at 45 rpm and it was Joe Strummer's voice sped up!

Good song though.

[silvester198666]

Grate!

[EERNOZTHROAT]

Every admirer of this song should look at the YouTube video named:

Martin Scorsese on meeting The Clash; Tymon Dogg's 'Lose this Skin'; "Raging Bull", etc.

Vivid!

[droidster888]

I remember when this was album released, I was about 19, still blows me away to this day.

[chefdeals]

it is time to take the power whilst they are skint goout there and fight

[Ypipable]

And Trotsky isn't dead.

[Ypipable]

Advice of the South Saskatchewan River.

[thomchak]

We're alone so they say

We're not on our own in that way

One of my favourite lyrics ever

[ilike2much]

Thanks for posting; It's almost as if I've seen the hole of the Clash...are those bagpipes?

I love the epilogue...

[ilike2much]

Thanks for posting; It's almost as if I've seen the hole of the Clash...are those bagpipes?

[drivebyfluffer]

Has it been over 30 years since my best friend bought this triple album (so cool in neon orange), smoked some jays and got blasted into the musical 4th dimension?

[zenphil]

who's singing this?



[chinasherry1961]

This album had 36 guest muscians a masterpiece that will live through the centuries and was recorded at electrcladyland studios in New York by master enginer Bob Clearmountain. There is also a hidden track on Sandinista that I disocvered 27 years ago that no one knows about. If you can find the hidden song write back to me if not I may upload it to youtube

[DevoDevoT]

@chinasherry1961 Its a version of Career Oppurtunities sung by a child

[degree7]

@chinasherry1961

Is the hidden track Bank Robber?

[CatapultYourMom]

@chinasherry1961 All tracks on side 6 are hidden, as no sane person gets that far.

[GATisdale]

Living proof that Mr. Headon was the best drummer of the 80's. QFT!

[chinasherry1961]

@GATisdale touche

[strummeresque]

Eye have always scene this song as somehow related to my eczema except this extraordinary song is Beauteous whereas my epidermis is exasperating.

Tymon Dogg is a man's best friend.

[paterson44]

i love this track....nice to see someone else apriciates it too

[strummeresque]

@paterson44 The man singing is Joe's friend Tymon Dogg.

[coheteplateado]

the day i met the clash was much better than the day of my first fuck

[enolaedwin]

Why The fuck is it that people ask all kinds of questions, Like who wrote this and so on and on, for fuck sake just google it .I think some people need to lose there skin

by way of scalping...

[Spraycando]

Masterpiece. An Anthem. If only more people understood The Clash for what they were. And are. Legends.

[JackStraw65]

This happens to be one of my favorite all time workout songs, it just makes you want to jump around and kick your legs up high. Tymon's vocal is unlike anything ever heard. Sandinista is the Clash's "White Album": just so many diverse pleasures and treasures all over that album.

[asifhecares]

Thanks for sharing this

[AnEnemy100]

Disko Dave Rest In Peace

[troy997]

I love this song ...Tymon Dogg rules

[xensboy]

Fantastic song. There is a grandeur about it. A Celtic heart, maybe. It's so moving.

[swmmd]

Interesting that Ellen Foley sang. I thought it was only Hitsville UK.  Her solo albums weren't bad. She was also on Night Court.

[TheOctastar]

@swmmd I can promise you Tymon Dogg sang this track . I was there.

Check out LOSE THIS SKIN-Tymon Dogg LIVE 1980 :)

[TheMacsb]

hey, the singer is not tymon but ellen foley. she was the girlfriend of mick jones

[sandro28grizz]

@TheMacsb Tymon is singing on this.

[TheOctastar]

@sandro28grizz Yes 100% right my friend. As a drummer in various bands of the era. I can vouch for it . As I was there. Ellen Foley sung on Hitsville.

[enolaedwin]

THANKS mate love this track!!!!!!!

[jeffreybiderpdee]

i'm sorry guys don't get me wrong I absolutely love the Clash and Sandinista! but seriously this song would be so amazing IF strummer or mick jones sang. Believe me it has great melody and i like the violin work but come on the singers voice is so fucking annoying it just kills me how great this song could be. Stop kidding yourselves guys Tymon dogg's(?!?) voice sound like a woman on crack who hasn't slept in 3 days.

[78topper]

@jeffreybiderpdee That's what makes the song! It does sound almost "annoying" in spots but that's what makes the song unique and cool. If you listen a few times, it'll grow on you.

[sandro28grizz]

@jeffreybiderpdee He sounds like a British Isles version of Geddy Lee from Rush.

[penrhyndeundraeth]

He once came to a party/jam sesh where I lived with 6 other flat mates in 1977 in Manor Park. He was so energetic and such a violin virtuoso. This would be 2 years before he recorded this track and then he was wearing his hair in the style that Phil Oakey of the Human League was to become famous for.

[biderbek]

in 1989 i was one out of two attending a tymon dogg's new age band show in a london church

[Spraycando]

Words are not enough. This is soul. This is The The Clash.

[julesyjiveby]

it's a favourite of mine! i want it played at my funeral... tymon dogg rocks!

[LOLcopter333]

@julesyjiveby Ditto my friend.

[No1ClashFan]

Christ!This takes me back!!!!x

[Slicric13]

The most underrated rock album ever made!!

[strummeresque]

@Slicric13 Man, you are smart! Not only the most underrated, but because of the breadth of musical flavors the one album Eye would want with me if I were stuck on Pluto or in Texass.

[jonnycoolman]

@Slicric13 totally agree

[r8ltl]

total belter

[GrimJerr]

Sandinista is far and away my favorite Clash Album ! Then Black Market Clash.

I have a Clash folder on my PSP with MY Clash remix of these 2 Albums I call "Sandinista Marketplace" where I fold Black Market Clash into Sandinista weaving a Deeper narrative in the arrangement where the Lyrics and song titles outline the struggle of living under dictatorial rulers and the angst for authority.run amok ! .

[fabsternyc]

You simply cannot leave out London Calling, there is every style of music in there, awesome songs, simply the best album of the 80s

[Spraycando]

It was released in December 1979 mate. (I suppose it was a culmination [or zenith] of what they'd experienced during the late 70's. Just a thought folks.)

[fabsternyc]

yeah, on December 14th.....didn't make the Top 10 in the charts until the following month (1980). "Rolling Stone also ranked London Calling at number one on its 1989 list of the 100 Best Albums of the Eighties despite its 1979 release". Peace.

[GrimJerr]

Come with me. I won't hide

We'll go away on a ride

We'll meet each day, use time to see

While we're young and almost free

I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

Do not turn or hate to see

All the things you think we've got

Do not turn or hate to see

What happened to the wife of Lot

[MrBadger78]

@GrimJerr

I think the lyric is actually

"do not turn your head to see.... all the things you think we've got."

If you read the next lines it makes sense.

[GrimJerr]

I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

We're alone or so they say

We're not on our own in that way

When we're alone it's real tough going

We tend to take a part in someone else's play

[GrimJerr]

Come with me, I thought he said

But that's not him anymore, he's dead

What's it like to be so free

So free it looks like lost to me

I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

Got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in

[GrimJerr]

I would Love this song to be played at my funeral with live bagpipes and Violins ! If I was to have a funeral that is, which I won't.

Maybe someone will play it for me when  I am gone !

[gianniwalker]

every track on the record was dub-flavoured, even this folk style masterpiece is full of echoes and effects. it still sounds fucking innovative

[7worker7]

I completely wore out my second copy of Sandanista a few years ago and I haven't heard this cut for some years--It's a wonderous song off that astounding album--a three record set and everything song it just beautiful and strong--It broke ground in so many directions and I loved all the strange little marginal bits. Thank so much for loading this one up--it felt great to hear itagain after so much time.

[fleaby]

7W7, agreed. I have this on cd but I remember finding this track in December 1980 in my bedroom and thinking, fierce. I was absorbed by Numan, the Clash and Floyd were number one then. Great stuff. I have only met one other person who likes this. Happy Christmas.

[Spraycando]

Theres more than just the two of you mate. Rest assured.

[fleaby]

I am happy about that too, strangely it must have been violin/fiddle era, I saw Numan at Hammersith and the support was Nash the Slash...all tapes, badages and electric fiddle, played from the hip too.

[Stortungpung]

Who is singing=?!½

[SergejEjzenstejn]

Tymon Dogg, an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalis, and an old friend of Joe Strummer.

He also wrote the violin riff of this song ;-)

[1960unclemort]

@SergejEjzenstejn he taught joe how to play guitar

[londonthistle]

vomit heights :)

[Stortungpung]

oh alright, what an odd voice! and it fits in so well with the music, a real masterpiece!

[ogdroadsong]

This was one of many tracks I used to skip on Sandinista but it really grew on me - lots of hidden gems on that album!

[fleaby]

Skip tracks? It is a marvel of a lp.

[ogdroadsong]

What about Junkie Slip, Ivan meets GI Joe, the songs with the kids singing, the backwards stuff and that bloke talking about the key that winds up Big Ben? Surely everyone skips that stuff?

[Harbetman]

I've listened to this track a million times. I had always thought it was Joe Stummer singing, recorded at 33 rpm and played at 45 rpm.  Sandinista is such a great underated album.

[gonzaign9]

temazooooooo

[sandro28grizz]

This guy sounds like Geddy Lee from Rush

[Seb30able]

HELL Yeah! FUCKIN' A. Long Live The Clash.

[7devonapes]

9 LIVES OF TYMON DOGG - see fan site. Brilliant doco by Emmy award winner Merrill Aldighieri.

[Vincenteloco]

RIP JOE ! we miss you :( Thanks for the post.

[cultofmao]

Yes gets little tears out of me, no idea why?

[vazmo14850]

i put sandanista with the white album...blonde on blonde...tusk....some of the greatest pop/rock ventures of all time

[sls1978ie1998]

i second that

[teevanjohn]

its a classic

[BiologicStronger]

Love this song!!

[smellyjonnie]

to me Sandinista is the Clash's white album ......Carbon Silicon should get Shane MacGowan and do this song ...

[AnSpailpinFanach]

I think the world would OD on awesomeness and explode if that happened...which would not be a bad way for it to go.

[ZLUGGO]

Lovely tune!

I love "Sandinista!"

[driedupslug]

I heard this song for the first time about a week ago and I love it. I was blown away when I saw it was The Clash. Thank you for posting it.

[1400deadwood]

All this time I thought it was Ellen Foley who was the vocalist with Tymon Dogg as the violinist. Back in 1980 this is how it was billed in NYC's FM stations that played ''Sandinista''.

[EERNOZTHROAT]

In the 20-30 years since this album was released, I've settled most comfortably into the opinion that this track is the most beautiful, eloquent track of all. Thanks.

[5293278363]

@EERNOZTHROAT (Belatedly) Nicely put! I wholeheartedly agree. I want this played at my wake - although I am in no hurry.

Cheers 

[EERNOZTHROAT]

@5293278363

May you get your wish. And may it be a long, long time from now.

[fleaby]

Tymon Doggg, a bit pissed sorrry the idea and facts are there.

[PatchworkGirlofOZ]

Fiddle is bloody amazing on this thing.

[sidDkid87]

Anthem for all trying to break free (whatever that means)

[T289c]

I was so happy to see Joe and the Mescaleros do this song with Tymon dogg LIVE!!!

[lfrancoisni]

Thank You! This is my St. Paddy's Day Anthem!

[SergejEjzenstejn]

You're welcome! ;)

[suite57]

this is the celtic clash with timon dogg on vocals,I thought it was apseudonym for kirsty maccoll because of record company commitments,enlghten me if u can

[nomusician]

really sounds like female vocals.

great song.

[Alexm799]

i always thought it was a female vocalist myself,i take it that it isnt?

[firstofakind]

I thought the same thing years ago, but it's a dude.

[hebert777]

It is Tymon Dogg, a good friend of Strummer.

[clashboy1977]

infact tymon dogg was in the 101'ers and the mescaleros and he's the person who thought joe how to play guitar (on a ukelele) true story!

[EERNOZTHROAT]

I LONG thought it was a lady, but learning that it's a dude has dampened no enthusiasm. In fact, I now interpret a greater passion than previous (for whatever that's worth).

[coolconfuzer]

Today i was just taught the bass line of this song...the first bassline in the song which is repeated threw out the song is very hard its prob gonna take me a good 6-8 hours to learn the entire song.

[track8fodderstompf]

It is pretty easy if you have the tabliture for it, im geussing you dont "/

You should learn hitsville uk : )

[coolconfuzer]

PSH come on now of course i know hitsville uk thats a easy one its a fun 1 to play but this is fucking hard man theres so many changes in the song some notes he plays just only once and never returns to them.

[curiouswelsh]

When i was a young clash fan the only song I liked off 'Sandanista' was Police on my Back, and I didn't think much of the album. I played it all again a few years ago and appreciated the whole album a lot more, and especially this song which is now one of my favourites full stop, not just of the Clash. I know think that album is one of their best, purely experimental quality and guts in making it

[Gaudd]

Exactly the same. Police on my Back was the only track I really liked, now? Hell I love the album. BTW I also had reservations about London Calling when it came out (save for Clampdown). Just shows The Clash served us all musically.

[cultofmao]

Yes my friend in Scotland many years ago played it to me and its stuck in the back of my mind, funny it always get a few tears out of me, i have no idea why?

But i really Love this song, its same with "Shadow of Love", The Damned always feel emotional when i hear it.

[Senayansoldier]

This is a great song on an amazing album.

[reallytheblues]

I ever lover the bass and drums in this song!

[Starlook124]

Love this song, can't get out of the head.

[ughaghugh]

I actually find this song very beautiful and like it very much

[excathead]

Thanks for this. I saw Tymon Dog play this solo on some late night new york tv show - Joe Franklin or Uncle Floyd. He reminded me of Loudon Wainwright III.

[wabashcannon]

When was that?  I would love to see it.

[excathead]

It had to be sometime between 12/81 and maybe 3/82, because I remember seeing it in my brooklyn apartment and that's when I lived there. I'd love to see it again myself.

[181shelby]

Great song....sticks with ya. I've carried this song ever since I bought Sandinista. Then, like a jackass, I gave it away. No one ever gives an album back. Shame.

[cultofmao]

Great song wow something in this gets right inside me everytime i hear it

[wabashcannon]

um, you may want to get the title right...it's called "Lose This Skin"

[SergejEjzenstejn]

Oh, you're right!

Thank you!