Skin All The Way Down (Know Your Onion!)

At the end of his life, Peer Gynt looked back upon who he had been all that time, peeling back all the layers making up his personality, likening himself to an onion with many skins – but no core.
“Time flies, water finds
New ways to flow
The bend sent me round,
So round I go!”

Lyrics:
[Verse]
A layer for the heights
Of which i was afraid
And one for the smiles
I kept and never gave
One for the pain,
For all that I've gone through
One full of joy
Of everything but you

A layer full of spite
A skin that hates
Too sinful and vile for the
Pearly gates
And one I keep
Under the rest
One that houses my
Earthy test

[Pre-Chorus]
I tried to dig,
Don't know how -
But I'm skin
Skin, all the way down

[Chorus]
All the way down
Like the onion
Know your onion!

[Verse]
A layer for the opportunities
I'd never take
One for my lovers,
All of them a fake
A layer for my talent
That all went to waste
And one for my story -
All copy and paste

A layer for my conscience
A stillborn child
A skin for all the
Times that I lied
About myself
About my life
About the forces moving me
From side to side

[Pre-Chorus]
And I keep digging,
I hope to find,
But all I am is skin
All the way down

[Chorus]
All the way down
Like the onion
Know your onion!

[Bridge]
Outside and in,
The road winds the same
The Bend sent me 'round
They are to blame!

Time flies, water finds
New ways to flow
The bend sent me round -
So round I go!

[Chorus]
All the way down
Like the onion
Know your onion!
I’m skin
All the way down
Like the onion
Know your onion!