What's Your Colour?

What's your colour, the colour of your skin,

The colour of the envelope that you're wrapped in?

Is it like chocolate, tea or coffee?

Is it like marzipan, fudge or toffee?

Peaches and cream or a strawberry milkshake?

Or covered in moles like a curranty cake?

What's your colour, the colour of your skin,

The colour of the envelope that you're wrapped in?

Are you a map of your past disasters?

Grazes and scratches and sticking plasters?

Bites from mosquitoes, a yellow-blue bruise?

And a couple of blisters from rather tight shoes?

What's your colour, the colour of your skin,

The colour of the envelope that you're wrapped in?

How does it go when the weather's sunny?

Brown as a berry or gold as honey?

Does it go freckly or peeling and sore?

Is there a mark from the watch that you wore?

What's your colour, the colour of your skin,

The colour of the envelope that you're wrapped in?

Do you go pink when you're all embarrassed?

Sweaty and red when you're hot and harassed?

Bumpy and blue on a cold winter's day?

When it's time for your bath are you usually grey?

What's your colour, the colour of your skin,

The colour of the envelope that you're wrapped in?