[Verse 2] This is your test... Come forth, confess! Extend your tongue Speak out, go on
[Chorus] Shedding your skin Showing your texture Time to let everything inside show You're cutting all ties Now and forever Time to let everything outside you
[Refrain] You're cutting all ties Now and forever Time to let
[Chorus] Shedding your skin Showing your texture Time to let everything inside show You're cutting all ties Now and forever Time to let everything outside you
[Outro] Shed your casing Show your lines and shapes Wear your insides On the outside Show your enemy What you look like What you look like What you look like From the inside From the inside
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The first single from Deftones' seventh album, Koi No Yokan, Leathers was released roughly two months before the album itself.
This song along with the song Rosemary were later re-released together as a cas-single.
Leathers addresses a very personal movement toward exposing your personal thoughts and emotions and becoming vulnerable by shedding your “skin” or rather the face or facade you present to other and instead let others – particularly those who oppose you – see your true colors or your “texture”. The title of the song refers to the pieces of leather clothing one would wear literally to remain unexposed.
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