Dessa & Minnesota Orchestra

Lyrics to Skeleton Key

I haven't met a locked door yet
that I couldn't beat
On a chain around my neck
I keep my skeleton key

CHORUS

Don't waste your worry on me

I always find what I need

Come and go as I please,

I've got my skeleton key

By now it's just a simple trick

not much to see

You hear the tumblers catch and click,

then turn the key

But I've found work and welcome

everywhere I've been

cause everybody's got someplace

they wanna be let in

CHORUS (x2)

Along the way,

the old men call me by mother's name

She looked just the same, they say

the children wave or hide behind

their mother's skirts afraid

Strangers here still seem strange

They hear the accent, know

I'm from nowhere near

but I speak the language

and I know the customs here

I come from over the horizon

pass through every dozen years

Go home, tell of my arrival

The skeleton key's here

CHORUS

I've got my,

my skeleton,

my skeleton key

I've got my, got my, got my

My skeleton, my skeleton key, yeah

CHORUS

Don't you go waste all your worry on me

'cause I'll make my way with

My skeleton key