Just Let the Sun

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"Just Let the Sun"
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Single by Skin
Released6 March 2006
Label V2
Songwriter(s) Skin, Paul Draper
Producer(s) Gordon Raphael, Skin
Skin singles chronology
"Alone in My Room"
(2006)
"Just Let the Sun"
(2006)
"Purple"
(2006)

"Just Let the Sun" is the second released from Skin's second album Fake Chemical State . Like her previous single, "Alone in My Room", the song was co-written with Paul Draper from Mansun. This was the first single from the album to be available on CD single. The release featured two B-Sides, "Only Vultures" and "Petrol Station Flowers". "Only Vultures" is often used as the opening number to many of Skin's gigs.

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Track listing

CD single

  1. Just Let The Sun
  2. Only Vultures
  3. Petrol Station Flowers

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